This article on the O’Reilly Radar credits the TiVo with forcing cable companies to demand better equipment/interfaces from those that produce their set-top boxes. I think that a similar effect may be the best thing that will come from the release of the iPhone. While phones in other parts of the world, especially southeast asia, have seen dramatic improvements, phones in the united states have seen few interface improvements in recent years.
Here’s an article at read/write web with good information about some current web 2.0 e-learning products.
UNL | PEAR.UNL.EDU Open Source PHP Development at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (tags: php development)
We signed on with Netflix last summer sometime. During the time that we have been members, its been embarrassing how few movies we have watched for what we have paid in membership fees. Except viewing the Ken Burns baseball documentary (which I really enjoyed), I think we could have bought the movies that we watched for nearly the same price that we paid in membership dues. Today, Netflix announced that they will begin offering downloadable movies.
Cyberduck - the free ftp client for macintosh has been updated to 2.7.2
Firefox Magazine An online magazine devoted to Firefox. A good place to find news and add-ons. (tags: firefox) Piggy Bank An extension for firefox that can grab news from many sources (including via screen scrapes) and display it in one interface that can then be shared with others. (tags: firefox add-ons)
I’ve been telling friends and family for a week that I didn’t have today (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) off. I was pretty surprised when I drove by the parking lot at the office this morning and found it to be empty. I went to one of the coffee shops I frequent and checked the calendar and sure enough, the office is closed today. It’s been a nice chance to catch up on some news.
Chris Pederick has updated the invaluable web developer toolbar for Firefox and Flock to version 1.1.
iPod Observer: Analyst is Skeptical of Apple TV I’m not saying that Apple TV is going to be a big hit. I really don’t know. I do think that this analyst is missing the point. The Jupiter analyst doesn’t see the point of such a device when one can get the content over the air or via cable/satellite. I think that the iTunes store coupled with Apple TV causes one to question the need for shelling out $50 to $100 or more each month on cable or satellite.
It’s been a day and a half since Steve bestowed the iPhone unto us. Here’s the thoughts that I’ve had on it. A souped-up nano seems like an odd choice for Apple's first widescreen video player It would be easy to drain a battery while flying and not have a phone when you get where you're going It would be nearly impossible to dial without seeing it. I hope that it either has a very good voice dialing feature or another way to very quickly dial someone in your favorites.
They’ve added the classic star trek shows to iTunes. Get your ‘Trouble with Tribbles’ and ‘Space Seed’ now!
I like gmail. I like it a lot. The interface is clean. It’s available from any computer. It handles attachments well. It offers a ton of space. It has great utilities available for OSs and browsers to inform you of new messages and it is very fast with search speed that you would expect from Google. I’ve expressed my dissatisfaction with browsers on the Macintosh here before. Thunderbird’s only appealing feature in my opinion is its sameness on different operating systems and Mail.
A List Apart: Articles: Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds This is a method that I am certainly going to use. It really is a hassle to create and store a different gradient for each colorbackground that you might want to use. This rather simple procedure creates two PNG files and then uses the background-color of (tags: css) apache friends - xampp for mac os x Apache 2 installation with MySQL and a butt-load of other stuff for OS X.
I created a post a few months ago about the social web. I’ve just come to the conclusion that my definition of the social web and the one that seems to be generally accepted are different. I do not consider a site that simply allows people to communicate to automatically be part of the social web. If this were the case, the social web would be anything but new as forums have been around for years and usenet predates the web (I think) and is still arguably the king of topic-centric discussions.
I don’t remember if I actually watched this show or not, but it looks familiar. Either way, its hilarious now.
Google For Educators (tags: google education)
Verizon and Adobe announced at the Max Conference last month that Verizon would begin putting Flash Lite on compatible phones. At the conference, it was spun as an advantage to flash game developers that would like a huge new audience to deploy their work to. Today’s BBC previews something much bigger however. Verizon has announced a deal that will allow VCast subscribers to watch YouTube videos on their phones. Potentially, these new phones will be able to start viewing content on any number of flash-powered video sites such as Google Video and Brightcove.
This is just a sample Powerpoint presentation hosted on ThinkFree. The posibilities with this are really pretty fantastic. I'm thinking about how a person's blog really becomes the one-stop shop for everything related to that person. My blog already incorporates my links (del.icio.us) and photos (flickr) along with my normal postings, but the ability to include documents (text, spreadsheet, presentation, etc) would be very powerful. Powered by ThinkFree
I'm working with the ThinkFree Office Online beta and one feature in it is the ability to publish documents directly to your web log. This would be really useful for publishing workshop/session handouts and presentation slides. You can see an example of a document right here. Powered by ThinkFree
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