November 2007
16 posts
Utterz →
“Mobile post voice, video, picture, and text mashups right to your page.”
Apple sale
If you were thinking of buying a product direct from Apple, today only, it may be on sale (either online or at your nearest Apple Store). MacMall has even better prices on many items, but they involve annoying mail-in rebates.
Wide vs. Deep →
comparison of manager and programmer personalities, by Greg Knauss
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One Laptop Per Child
Some friends have recently heard and wondered about the Give One Get One laptop program. This offer is the early fruit, or biproduct, of the One Laptop Per Child project, a 3 year old effort to design and manufacture a $100 laptop computer to be distributed in the millions to children in developing economies all over the world. I’ve followed this project casually, with real fascination. ...
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Getting Organized
I’m going to occasionally highlight some easy to use and low cost applications for organizing information and yourself, on the Mac. You use Yojimbo to collect all kinds of information and organize it, how you like, all in one “place” on your computer(s). For just $40, Yojimbo can manage that information across multiple computers, syncronizing via the .Mac service. You can...
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Network Troubleshooting: basic techniques →
Are you having problems with your network and/or Internet connection? Was it setup and working fine, previously? Before you call Tech Support, or your favorite geek, try a few standard troubleshooting techniques, yourself…
“You’ve got to spend your money for the things that money can buy, not...”
– Haruki Murakami
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Micro-blogging with Twitter
…is a fast and light way to stay in touch with friends. It’s just the thing for people too busy to regularly post blogs or chat on instant messenger. Since each “tweet” (micro-post) is limited to 140 characters – and can be read and written from the web, mobile phones, via instant messaging, or an application on your computer – it takes mere seconds out of your day,...
Leopard reviewed:
Mac OS X 10.5 →
TwitterWhere? →
“generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area”
"mind reading" web sites
Variations on the Mystical Ball web site have been making the email chain-letter rounds amongst some of my friends, as they wonder how these web sites seem to read their mind. If you want to experience these mysteries yourself — before I spoil it all with the facts — check out one of them, before you read on. I’ll wait. [whistling] There, wasn’t that amazing? No a...