August 2009
30 posts
My Snow Leopard casualties: what's not working in... →
Filed under: Software, Snow Leopard
Overall, I’m very happy with Snow Leopard, and loving all of the little refinements I keep stumbling upon. However, I want to mention a few…
Effectively Harness the Sun's Light for Better... →
When it comes to taking a great photo, artificial lighting can’t replicate what Mother Nature offers—if you know how to put the natural light to good use. Here’s how to turn your face towards the…
Woofer: Twitter's 1,400 Character Opposite →
In speaker technology, the opposite of a tweeter is a woofer, which pumps low-end frequencies while the tweeter amplifies higher-range sounds. On the Web, a tweeter is one who frequents…
Sony eBook Library now available for Mac, Windows →
Filed under: Windows, Macintosh
There’s been a lot of buzz this week about Sony’s new eBook readers which will go head to head with the Amazon Kindle. But it’s not all about…
Gruml: A Google Reader App For Your Mac Desktop →
Google Reader is a very useful service for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), but it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t the responsiveness and polish of a…
Better Contact Management For Gmail →
Gmail made a tweak last night that brings better contact management to the service. When you click the “To:” or “CC:” links in front of each address field, a box pops up with your contact list….
Ikea Switches From Futura to Verdana →
Horrible decision. Baffling, really. I have never seen Verdana look good in any way other than in small sizes on-screen. (Via Adam Lisagor.)
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Mathemagics for iPhone becomes a Staff Favorite on... →
Austin, Texas – Blue Lightning Labs today announced that their popular iPhone application Mathemagics has been chosen as an Apple Staff Favorite on the AppStore. Mathemagics, an application for…
Yahoo Upgrades Mail, Messenger, and Search [Yahoo] →
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For all 3 of you yahoo mail users out there and 1 yahoo messenger user. This is for you.
Yahoo Mail users are getting 25MB attachment limits and easier photo uploading, a new…
Set Up a Persistent-Video "Portal" for... →
Shared by joekwon
I actually did this exact same thing 2 months ago at work when I work from home. It works pretty well.
Have no place to cowork and working from home has got you down? Set…
Apple enlists David Puddy to take on the Laptop... →
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haha, it made it me laugh
Apple’s created a whole new chapter in its “Get a Mac” ad campaign based on targeting Microsoft’s successful Laptop Hunters series, and…
Sony Virtual Library eBook Check Out Is Awesome,... →
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This is really awesome.
My favorite part of Sony’s Reader announcement was probably Library Finder, powered by OverDrive, which lets you check out eBooks from your local…
Sony to link Readers with libraries, allow e-book... →
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woohoo! Competition is good! I hope Amazon steps it up.
At a press event hosted by the New York Public Library, Sony put their recently announced Reader hardware on…
Futurama Returning with Full Original Cast After... →
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Woohoo!!!!
How did we miss this news?! Thanks to the mighty power of nerd outrage, Futurama will be returning to TV with all of its original voices intact rather than…
Lego Universe First In-Game Screenshots [Lego] →
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I think I would actually play this.
At last, the first screenshots of the Lego Universe game—Lego’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game—have been released….
Arterial, crowdsourced traffic info comes to... →
Highway traffic updates on the Internet are nothing new, but Google Maps has just added a feature that lets users see live traffic info for arterial, non-highway roads. The feature is…
Microsoft sucks at Photoshop →
Officially. Update: Microsoft tells CNET, “We are looking into the details of this situation. We apologize and are in the process of pulling down the [Polish] image.”
[Thanks,…
Notify keeps an eye on your Gmail inbox →
Filed under: Software, Freeware, First Look
I, like many people, am constantly checking my email. No matter where I am, I’m either getting messages pushed to my iPhone or Mail is…
BlizzCon 2009: BSG's Tricia Helfer to voice... →
During a StarCraft 2 lore panel taking place at BlizzCon this weekend, Blizzard vice president of creative development Chris Metzen revealed the voice replacement for Sarah Kerrigan. …
Notify keeps an eye on your Gmail inbox →
Filed under: Software, Freeware, First Look
I, like many people, am constantly checking my email. No matter where I am, I’m either getting messages pushed to my iPhone or Mail is…
NEWS ALERT: Sigg Water Bottles Contain BPA! →
You know those SIGG aluminum water bottles that eco-geeks carry around with them as a protest against plastic bottles? Well apparently, SIGG bottles manufactured before August of last…
Apple reconsiders rejected iPhone apps, C64... →
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I really miss the days of the c64
We’re always a little hesitant to get too optimistic about changes to the App Store approval process, but it looks like there’s…
The Personas Project From MIT Is All Kinds Of Cool →
Go here and put your name in the box. Just do it. It’s awesome.
The project, called Personas, comes from the MIT Media Lab built by Aaron Zinman. Basically, it takes your name and…
Gmail Tasks Become Shareable →
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By “share” they mean facilitated copy and paste. I want real sharing where two or more people can add/check off items and they changes are synced in real-time to all parties.
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How-To: Create Custom CSS Email Signatures on the... →
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I stopped reading at “it needs to be jailbroke “
Previously, I discussed how to create custom CSS email signatures for Mail in Mac OS X. This week, we’re going to look…
Picasa Web Albums Adds Collaboration [Photos] →
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good for group events
Picasa Web Albums—the internet-facing component of the popular desktop photo management application—has added a new feature that lets you…
Microsoft's LifeCam Cinema HD webcam lets you... →
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while it may be overkill for just face to face video chatting, this could be a huge deal with accessible group conferencing and group brainstorming
For when the world…
New Incase DSLR Bags Aren't So Ridiculous Looking... →
If you havent noticed over the last year, Incase have been knocking their messenger/laptop/skateboarding bags out of the park with products that are equally techie and stylish. Their new…
P2P Not to Blame for Content Industry Failures... →
A new study commissioned by the European Union has finally proven what many have suspected all along: internet users don’t want to pay for content. Period. And nothing is going to change their…
Five Ways to Become a Mac Minimalist →
My interpretation of minimalism in the home office is removing all distracting items that are not constantly utilized. For software, this is both easy and cheap. Becoming a hardware…