How Much of Apple is Jobs?
Monday, April 3, 2006
CNet reporters' roundtable ‘cast discusses Jobs’ role at Apple.
Technology
Holographic Drives
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
They are finally coming…
Pimp Your iChat
Monday, March 27, 2006
Chax adds needed features to iChat like tabs and growl support.
Umbrella tells you when to grab it
Monday, March 27, 2006
This awesome umbrella was in this month’s WIRED mag. It receives radio signals that tell it what the chance of rain that day is, then blinks it’s blue handle to communicate that you to you. See the umbrella blinking madly near the door on the way out? Better take it with you!
Interview with one of people that figured out XP on Mac
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
After reading this interview, I’m more impressed that I was before with the ability to dual-boot XP on an intel mac.
Finally -- An Auto Maker Does iPod Integration Right
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
VW’s new Gypsie interface allows you to sync with iTunes, dock your iPod and access both with a fantastic interface in the dash. Wow.
Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Available
Monday, March 20, 2006
Firefox 2 alpha 1 is available. At the time of this posting, it is not yet on the mozilla site, but TechCrunch has managed to find a link to it.
Google Acquires Writely
Friday, March 10, 2006
Google has made another acquisition of a cool ‘web 2.0’ site. It has purchased Writely, an online word processor that uses AJAX methods to create a product that is cross platform, cross browser and pretty snappy to use. A year ago or more I think I would have been pretty excited by this, but Google’s releases lately have been, in my opinion, real yawners demonstrating some lack of focus. When they were releasing one great ‘product’ after another, there was no one that I would rather see pick up a site like this.
Origami Photos
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Microsoft announced and showed off the new Origami at CeBit. Haven’t had much time to take a good read of it, but sure looks cool.
Google Calendar
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Screenshots have been leaked of a calendar system in development at Google.
WooHoo! Daily Show and Colbert on iTunes
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
You knew it would be coming. I’m just surprised it happened this soon. You can now subscribe to Comedy Central’s Daily Show and Colbert Report on iTunes. You pay $10/show and you get the next 16 episodes (one month). Get both and that’s $20 a month, but considering that that’s about all I keep cable for, it could be a great deal.
Tivo Lifetime Subscription Ending
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
If you have a Tivo (or are thinking about getting one), better do it quick. Next week, Tivo plans to pull it’s lifetime subscription plan which allows you to pay a one time fee of $299 and never pay the monthly fee. Apparently they have decided it’s too good of a deal.
Cashiers being replaced by computers at Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut?
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
I heard somebody talk a couple of years ago about a taco bell or mcdonalds or something down in Florida that was experimenting with serve-yourself cashier counters. Looks like those combination restaraunts (KFC/Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut/Taco Bell, Taco Bell/KFC) are ready to start trying it out.
Microsoft: Good and Bad Videos
Monday, February 27, 2006
First video: Mocks Microsofts ability to make any packaging dull and over detailed. Second video: Is this what Microsoft will be announcing tomorrow?
Web 2.0 Logos
Friday, February 24, 2006
There are so many “Web 2.0” companies that it’s almost impossible to track them. Here’s a poster that’s been assembled using web 2.0 company logos. It’s fun to see the designs and colors used. It’s also fun to just start going through them to see what’s being done by all of these companies.
Happy Birthday Steve!
Friday, February 24, 2006
It’s Steve Jobs' 51st Birthday.
Web 2.0 Humor
Monday, February 20, 2006
What is meant by web 2.0? What was web 1.0? Read all about it here…
Flock .5.11 released
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Apparently Flock has scrapped plans of making .6 a major beta release or they have decided that using numbers like .5.11 highlights the fact that these are betas. Either way, it has been a long time since a release of Flock was put out (outside of the hourly builds) and this new one is fantastic. Check out the new features here, then get it. technorati tags: flock, browser
Trojan for OS X
Thursday, February 16, 2006
There may actually be a bit of a virus circulating for OS X masquarading as a screenshot from OS 10.5.
Opera Browser on Nintendo DS
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
This would be pretty fantastic even if the DS weren’t already a great gaming device. Opera will be releasing their web browser for the Nintendo DS as a game cartridge. The DS runs about $250 has two screens (one of which is touch-sensitive), Wi-Fi, stereo sound, a microphone and stylus. If it renders web pages with any speed at all, this could become one of the most portable, cost-effective browsing options available.
Camino hits 1.0
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
It’s been in beta for nearly five years and yesterday it finally it version 1.0. It’s not my favorite browser but it’s a fantastic browsing alternative on the mac and I’m sure it has a lot of great things on the way.
New 1GB Nano
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Apple has released a new 1GB version of the Nano for only $149 and has made the 1GB version of the shuffle only $99 with the 512 now $69. It sure would be tough to pass up the extra features of the nano for only $50.
MacWorld Odds
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
ZDNet has published odds on possible announcements at MacWorld.
Firefox 1.5: Get it now
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Mozilla hasn’t announced it yet, but it’s out there. You can get the final 1.5 for macintosh here.
Video or No Video
Thursday, October 6, 2005
Apple has announced a media event for October 12th. CNet reports that Apple will use the event to release a new video iPod (I swear I read this but I can’t find it now). “MacRumors says they will not”:www.macrumors.com/pages/200… and instead release a larger-capacity iPod with some cosmetic changes.
MS' iPhoto
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Speaking of Sparkle. Here is a blast from someone to claims to be a PC user at Microsoft’s new photo manager (which is still in beta).
Microsoft Sparkle... What is it?
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Microsoft has been rumored to have a “flash killer” in the works for a long time and it seems that the newly announced “sparkle” program may be it, but is it designed to go up against flash? It really seems when watching the available interview/presentation that it is not meant so much to be a low-bandwidth internet technology as a way to add a ton of vector-based eye candy at desktop applications.
Sun and Google Working Together
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Sun and Google announced that they will be partnering on different technologies. It’s interesting that Google (who is the big fish here) has nothing about this on their site while Sun, who really really needs this - and seems to think that they are the big player, has this as the biggest item on their site.
$100 Laptop
Monday, October 3, 2005
MIT has put together the specifications for a computer that should cost no more than $100 to build. The 12 inch laptop computer has wireless networking, six usb ports and a shoulder-strap that doubles as a power cord. The computer would be built primarily for third world countries looking to introduce computers into the classrooms of their students. Given this, the computer also features a small crank which can be used to provide juice to the computer in areas without handy electrical power.
iTunes 4.9 brings Podcasting
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
iTunes 4.9 was release sometime either last night or this morning and now features podcast subscriptions. It is so super easy, you can browse the store for podcasts in the same way that you browse for music. When you find something you like you simply hit "subscribe". You can customize how many shows you would like and best of all, you can tell iTunes how to clean up after itself so that old shows are removed as new shows are downloaded.