June 2008
54 posts
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Important Spaces change in 10.5.3 →
Filed under: OS
Over at Daring Fireball John Gruber has discovered an interesting change in the recently released 10.5.3 update. There is now a checkbox in the Spaces tab of the Exposé &…
May 2008
166 posts
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Guest Post: Advanced GTD with Remember The Milk →
I’m happy to introduce a guest post from Doug Ireton, who’s written a fantastic guide to Getting Things Done with RTM. Doug is a Sr. Platform Engineer on the Windows Server team at Nordstrom, a…
Toyota may produce Prius in California with GM →
Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Plants/Manufacturing, Toyota
Reports are emerging today that Toyota is considering producing its hybrid Prius in California at the…
Space Mountain is having technical difficulties. Weird to see it with the lights on.
Had a good breakfast and an early start. Magic Kingdom today.
Got to Epcot just in time for fireworks.
checked in to the hotel. Glad I carried the concept of travel day on to my vacations.
On the road headed down to Disney.
I have to get through a meeting at 2 before we head down to Disney.
Orange to trade up iPhones? →
Filed under: Rumors, Deals, iPhone
According to Boy Genius Report, French iPhone carrier Orange may be offering current iPhone users a 3G iPhone for €30 €50 (thanks to kol and…
Wow. Google Contact Sync works surprisingly well in OS 10.5.3
Throwing caution to the wind and installing osx 10.5.3. Looking forward to syncing my address book w gmail.
10.5.3: Sync your iPhone contacts with Google →
Filed under: OS, Internet, Internet Tools, Software Update
If you have an iPhone synced with Address Book.app, then you’ve been able to sync your contacts with Yahoo for a…
Top 10 Additions to Your Phone's Contact List... →
Nearly every new webapp on the block offers some kind of text message integration, but not all of them are the kind you’ll want to keep on every phone you own. However, there are a few…
New Secret X-Bomber Is Not So Secret Anymore... →
Northrop Grumman is working on a new classified bomber prototype for the Air Force, at an estimated cost—according to their financial statements—of $2 billion. Apparently, the first…
Happy birthday, Google Gears! →
Posted by Chris Prince, Software Engineer It has been a year since the launch of Google Gears, and we wanted to offer a glimpse into what’s changing, and what’s ahead. First of all, to better…
Using hellotxt.com to selectively post to my social networks. My twitters no longer go to my blog automatically.
Getting ready for tonight’s pack meeting.
RFID "virtual walls" could keep tabs on hospital... →
Filed under: Wireless
RFID has long since been a pretty common find in your modern day hospital, but now GE and CenTrak are teaming up to make the technology even more useful in…
Large Web Host Urges Customers to Use Gmail →
1sockchuck writes “LA hosting company DreamHost, which hosts more than 700,000 web sites, is encouraging its customers to use Google’s Gmail for their e-mail, rather than the DreamHost mail servers….
Amazon Kindle Price Reduced to $359, Now Back In... →
The Kindle is back in stock and it’s now available for a reduced price, dropping from $399 to $359. Maybe that will help Amazon to achieve those crazy $750 million in sales by 2010. [
I’ve started a lot of sentences with, “What’s the status on…” this morning.
Mars lander gets a solid start →
First images to arrive from Mars show the Red Planet’s pebbly surface and that the lander’s solar panels unfolded as planned.
I had no idea you could set up facebook to behave exactly like twitter. Now everytime Michele updates her status I get an SMS.
The Steve Sizemore made for tv movie will definitely have Coldplay’s “Fix You” in some pivotal scene.
That’s right. Steve has been laughing at danger since 2002.
Not only is “Reinventing Axl Rose” a great album, it always reminds me of driving on Keesler AFB and jamming my 1st Gen iPod. Good times!
Dad’s killer app on the iPhone: the calculator.
Shatner on Conan O'Brien →
Blazing Samsung 256GB SSD Is the One We've Been... →
This is the solid-state drive that we’ve been waiting for: a full 256GB, which Samsung says is “the world’s fastest and largest capacity 2.5-inch, MLC-based SSD with SATA II…
RFID "virtual walls" could keep tabs on hospital... →
Filed under: Wireless
RFID has long since been a pretty common find in your modern day hospital, but now GE and CenTrak are teaming up to make the technology even more useful in…
Phoenix Mars Lander To Touch Down In 2 Hours →
AFP has a good summary of the pre-touchdown jitters the Phoenix Mars Lander crew is living through. The spacecraft has been under way for 10 months. If the landing goes according to plan — and only…
Watching Ira Glass on Friday’s episode of Conan.
What do you mean, “what have you been doing?” Do you think facebook updates itself?
That Coke commercial with Frist and Carville makes me laugh. I think it’s the segways that pushes me over the edge.
Asus Developing Eee PC Touchscreen Tablet [Rumor] →
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This would be awesome. I will buy one.
Aussie pub Current is reporting that the Eee PC will soon morph into a “non-clamshell touchscreen-only device,” with an…
Narnia
Weezer's Pork and Beans video is Internet meme... →
riffs on nearly every major web meme; they even hired Afro-Ninja!
Weekend!
I’m under attack from all sides today. So close to the weekend. Hope I make it.
Terminator Salvation Starts Filming, Website... →
Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins has started production in the New Mexico deserts, with Christian Bale and Sam Worthington on board to star in the film as John Connor and Marcus…
Netflix Player →
David Pogue on the new $100 movie box from Netflix, which sends movies from your computer screen to your TV screen.
AT&T announces full HSPA for 3G markets by end of... →
Here’s some good news, folks. AT&T has just announced that they will have full HSPA coverage across their entire 3G network by the end of June. Currently, 275 AT&T markets sport full…
JEA Raises Rates by 15% →
JEA’s Board of Directors has approved a 15% increase on the cost of electricity for it’s customers. The change will take effect in July of this year and is being blamed on rising fuel costs.
The…