Monthly Archives: April 2004

Stuyvesant Cove

Amazing! I’ve lived in the same place, near Gramercy Park and Union Square for almost six years and I never knew Stuyvesant Cove existed… We walk a lot — not that uncommon here in NYC, but with a baby, I … Continue reading

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Test my comments

I just installed a nice plugin for WordPress which forces a real email address as a simple authentication step. It’s a nice way to prevent bogus spam crap, though admittedly spam really gets blocked based on some prefs I’ve set … Continue reading

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Digital Video Recorders Take Off

Pretty straightforward article I just found via Yahoo on DVRs… seems late to the game but provides a good overview for those who may have less of an idea of how things work. In the new world of digital video … Continue reading

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Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?

News aggregators may be the best new tools to appear on the Web since the browser, but as the programs and the underlying RSS standard grow more popular, some question whether the Internet will be able to handle the traffic. … Continue reading

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Howard Stern Cover Story

In case you’ve been sleeping under a rock, Jeff Jarvis has been intensely covering all things Stern for quite a while. He’s written a solid cover story for The Nation which I’d recommend giving some time to read over. My … Continue reading

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What’s Next From Palm?

What is coming next from Palm (just wrongly grouping palmsource and palmone)?? We’ve got the Zires…72 and 31 and the alleged Treo 610 (bluetooth baby!) but what else is on the way — assuming the Treo is real. I’ve been … Continue reading

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Blacklight

While it works well as a screen saver, there is also an included mini-app which is nice for low-light situations you might find yourself in. I like the white text on black effect, which is really great when sitting and … Continue reading

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Why I wanted a Bugaboo…

Greg asked over at DaddyTypes… (I think this is my first gadget entry that’s Dad oriented — I’m sure it won’t be the last…) The Bugaboo is the ultimate stroller. Before Hannah was born, Ashley and I looked at quite … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Magic Pen

via Tomalak’s Realm… This “universal pen,” as Wang calls it, could transform the way people interact with computers. Unlike gizmos that write on computer displays or special pads of paper, Wang’s invention uses regular ink, works with regular paper, and … Continue reading

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Warflying

Too Cool! We all know what wardriving is – discovering wireless networks while driving some sort of ground-based vehicle. Warflying is kind of like that, except you are travelling at about 120 miles per hour and flying about 1500 above … Continue reading

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Q&A with Robert Scoble

Recommended reading on blogging for business from Micro Persuasion. Robert Scoble, Technical Evangelist, Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, pens Scobleizer, one of the Web’s most influential blogs. He has thousands of readers and is frequently quoted in the tech and business … Continue reading

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Stattoo

Something fun to try… Panic is pleased to announce Stattoo, a brand new li’l app that “tattoos” system information right onto your desktop picture. [~stevenf]

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working on it…

bringing the site back to life… re-imported posts from MT which covers the bulk of my history (goes back to September 2002) and am still working out some kinks with permalinks and some older posts. I was able to recover … Continue reading

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You’ll notice the clean look…

Well – lesson learned. I will not mess with things not broken (much), I’ve lost a great deal of history here and am trying to restore things … for now I am leaving this clean installation up and running until … Continue reading

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iTunes 4.5 a sign of what’s really in-store…

So in case you missed the news, Apple updated iTunes to version 4.5 which comes with some very cool features as well as additions to the store. The features are great and include Party Shuffle which is a nice way … Continue reading

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Migraine!

I got a whoppper of a migraine today… Only my second one and the first was about 8 years ago. It’s hard to describe really but the pain was an intense throbbing on the right side of my head near … Continue reading

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Yahoo! Maps with wireless access points

This is very cool… just click the radio button at the bottom of the map you display and you can see all the hotspots in the area. It’s hard to tell whether they are commercial and free or just commercial, … Continue reading

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Good Morning … Software Updates!

WOW – quite a few updates today… Cocktail 3.4.6 – actually updated yesterday, but downloaded today iTunes 4.5 iMovie 4.0.1 Palm Desktop 4.2.1 ecto 1.1

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Steven Saunders – Terrorist – used the OQO!

So they get all the toys is that it… The OQO made its primetime television debut tonight on 24. Carrying no influence from the user… I really would love a full sized computer that manages to fit in my pocket. … Continue reading

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Maxtor’s New Crippled External Hard Drive for DVRs

Just caught this via PVRblog and am very disappointed though not surprised… Ernest over at Corante has a great story on a new Maxtor DVR product: “Crippled External Hard Drive for DVRs.” Turns out that Maxtor is producing a new … Continue reading

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