So an interesting thing just happened … I was reading about PulpFiction on Erik J. Barzeski’s blog and asked a question about the demo terms in a comment. He responded and we had a brief dialog until another reply of his came with some seemingly unprovoked attitude. Jay Allen actually responded to it before I … Read moreMarketing products on your blog
The Infinite Cat Project
Om Malik has a great post today on the future of remote controls and their role in our smart homes. I like the idea of a knowledgeable device — one that can be easily configure itself based on what you have, across a variety of connection options (wifi, ir and bluetooth) and can of course … Read moreUniversal Remotes
AutoFill is a form you fill out once and then save the resulting link as a bookmarklet so you can use form auto-fill in browsers without the function. Works in Firefox, Camino, Safari and I would imagine any other browser you want.
The Washington Posts’ Rob Pegoraro is pretty critical of Sony’s continuing mistakes in digital music…Hard to blame him, this sounds like a painful system to use, even if the price is right on the players and media. Why bother? But the store’s advertised selection of “more than 500,000” songs is missing a concert stage’s worth … Read moreSony’s Connect Music Offers Little Value
Does sending multiple copies of the same message get a better response or open rate? There must be some logic as to why I sometimes get a dozen of the same message at once. It’s interesting to note these when I scan messages caught first by Spam Assassin and then by Spam Sieve in my … Read moreA Question for Spammers
Camino creeped back into my dock and has made a good impression. I don’t even recall the last time I used it though I know it was certainly pre-Safari… Camino brings much of what’s to like about Safari and Firefox, but combines things into it’s own deal. Rendezvous bookmarks are easy to access and external … Read moreCamino
When I suddenly get close to 4000 (3935 actually) messages at once, I have to just delete them. If you sent me one and it ended up there, you lose. No way I can possible be expected on any level to manually sort that much crap. If you don’t read my blog, well then you … Read moremassive amounts of spam
Too bad I use Google for 99.9% of my regular searches… still good to know anyway. Yahoo has rolled out some new search engine shortcuts, according to Search Engine Watch. The move, perhaps in response to recent similar actions by Google, continues to grow Yahoo’s list of shortcuts, which can be found on this page. … Read moreNew Yahoo Search Shortcuts
How does a meme travel through the blogosphere? The Memespread Project seeded an idea and watched it grow, learning a lot about information transmission along the way. [Wired News]
Mihai Parparita uses Perl to automatically generate a blogroll from his NetNewsWire subscriptions. [inessential.com]
Operation Gadget points to an arcticle on O’Reilly on setting up a Digital Photo Gallery with MySQL, Sendmail, Perl and ImageMagick. To me unless you just really want to do it yourself, this is way more work that you need to even consider. I’ve been happily using Gallery and the excellent plug-in for iPhoto, iPhotoToGallery, … Read moreDigital Photo Gallery Howto
Unfortunately it seems the answer to this question might actually be yes. Not all the time, but certainly when it might be convenient for either political or competitive reasons… A free 802.11G router really might just be too good to be true… Could Comcast use that new combination cable modem/802.11g wireless access point they’re carrying … Read moreIndeed no free lunch…
I don’t have an Eyehome to try this out, but it looks like the Mac Media Center just got RSS feeds…Eyehome Customization RSS/XML feed — MacUpdate Pretty sure this is the first one on Mac… Hopefully someone with the thing will check it out and post a review or at least some screen shots.
I hear you man, but Steve Jobs seems to be thoroughly against streaming services believing that consumer want to own their music, not rent it. Perhaps the iMix addition is a taste though and if enough people take part, Apple will get that people want even more interaction with the music. For now though if … Read moreYou want fries with that?
Thanks to the tip from Dave Winer on the RSS User list …Reuters now has RSS feeds…
No word on when exactly, just that support is being developed… I just received an email saying just that from Mirra support after I inquired yesterday. If you don’t already know the Mirra is a great box you connect to your home network to automate backups as well as use as a home server accessed … Read moreMirra Support coming for Mac…
I don’t agree with the thinking here… If you run a virus checker, it scans your messages. If you use email from your employer or school, they can scan your mail (and actually read it too), but GMAil seeks only to find relavent ads to send you based on context. The search is happening in … Read moreMossberg on GMail…
I just got off the phone with Time Warner and they have pushed the release of the HD DVR back to at least the third quarter. It’s not actively in the system — at least according to the lovely customer service rep I spoke to. I doubt this means they are considering the Moxi box … Read moreTime Warner HD DVR Delayed
I think the jury is still way out on this… Remember the cue cat? Not sure once you pass the gimmick phase that there is any staying power here… I’d love to be wrong, but only time will tell. Semacode is about as cool an app as I’ve come across and a confirmation of my … Read moreSemacode