Where Appliances go to die
If it’s New York, they get kicked to the curb…
Month: June 2004
SnapperMail 2.0 Public Beta
The SnapperMail 2.0 Public Beta is finally open… The best gets better! IMAP support is finally here – beyond inbox only, which is a limitation of other Palm clients. Still rock solid for POP users as well…
How Airport Express Works
From MacWorld… I spent a little bit of time with Greg Joswiak, Apple’s Vice President of Hardware Product Marketing, talking about how the new AirPort Express works, especially the new AirTunes audio features. [Macworld]
SONOS Media Controller
This is a very cool new home system that lets you connect and control your AV content — either in your zone (local area) or entire home. Unlike all the current streaming media players, the Sonos doesn%u2019t need a PC in every room, a music server or a wireless network. Just a Sonos ZonePlayer, speakers … Read moreSONOS Media Controller
Even when you think you are… Windows might not be so safe
I know this isn’t very likely to happen, but Microsoft really ought to consider putting a label on its boxes of Windows XP: WARNING: MICROSOFT’S TESTS HAVE DETERMINED THAT FOLLOWING OUR INSTRUCTIONS IN THE USE OF THIS PRODUCT WILL PUT YOUR COMPUTER AT SEVERE RISK. [WSJ.com]
AirPort Express
I think the idea of the new Apple Airport Express is totally cool! Announced today, the Airport Express lets you extend or add an (802.11G – Airport Extreme) network very easily to any location along with your airport enabled machine. It’s really small, easily fits in your gear bag and seems like a terrific piece … Read moreAirPort Express
Blogging With AquaMinds NoteTaker
As cool as this is, it’s a fair bit of effort to do what could most likely be resolved directly from the Notetaker app, if it supported the XML-RPC interface directly… A post about using NoteTaker, Ecto and TypePad together. [Joi Ito]
Shake Shack Coming Soon!
We’ve been watching the constuction in Madison Park wondering just what might be coming and now we know… Sounds like a regular lunch stop to me! Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack, the Madison Square Park kiosk, will make its unofficial debut next weekend during the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party, and officially July 1. The shack … Read moreShake Shack Coming Soon!
Gmail adds Safari support
Google has added Safari 1.2.1 to the list of browsers supported… [Macworld UK]
Gawker Media Custom Blogging
This seems like a natural extension for the blog publishers like Gawker Media and Weblogs Inc Network… wonder if/when Jason will counter. Nick Denton has informed me that Gawker Media has launched a custom weblog publishing service for advertisers called Gawker Media Contract Publications. Their first project – a weblog sponsored by Nike. [Micro Persuasion]
Email Worst Practices
Turns out many of emails troubles are just from carelessness (aside from poor technique and targeting) and the findings show Format Errors, Compliance Errors, Unreadable Emails, and Re-direct Errors. If you don’t want people to be able to respond these are all great ways to assure that’s to happen. A big part of declining click-through … Read moreEmail Worst Practices
Yondwin universal PDA keyboard
WOW – this seems to be much more functional for my purposes than the bluetooth keyboard from Stowaway, it’s not that slick in appearance, but still very handy. The PKB-800 uses infrared and is supposed to work with both Palms and Pocket PCs but it%u2019s not quite portable enough that we’d ever consider ditching our … Read moreYondwin universal PDA keyboard
Nerd Values at Craigslist
Great piece on Craigslist at Online Journalism review by Mark Glaser… Thanks to Sandro for the tip. Craig Newmark started the community site as a hobby, but it soon became a San Francisco area institution for selling cars, getting jobs and finding sex. But just how much has it eaten into newspapers’ traditional classifieds business, … Read moreNerd Values at Craigslist
MetaBranding
Leander Kahney of the The Cult of Mac Blog points to an article in Metropolis Magazine which highlights supposedly unintentional design elements of Apple’s Retail stores and it’s hardware. Apparently it’s just a coincidence… part of following what you love but results in MetaBranding, which seems in this case to be a subliminal similarity and … Read moreMetaBranding
Circuits on Voom
David Pogue review the Voom HD Satellite service and finds it interesting, yet kludgy and an obvious startup… The listings grid routinely chops off the second line of each show’s description, the box takes several seconds to change channels and the channel grid always appears at channel 100, rather than the channel you’re already watching. … Read moreCircuits on Voom
Wireless Unleashed
Daily Wireless called my attention to a new group blog from Kevin Werbach, David Isenberg, Andrew Odlyzko, and Clay Shirky. Looks like a good one… Current wireless regulation actually prevents communication from taking place. Even in prime low-frequency spectrum, vast amounts of capacity lies idle due to old rules and old thinking. With the support … Read moreWireless Unleashed
Comcast games on demand
I checked this out and it looks good though these types of services have yet to prove too successful. Yahoo has had Games on Demand for a while now… Not sure if the twitch gamer really wants this or if services like this cater more to a casual gamer who might prefer a single choice … Read moreComcast games on demand
Pocket Rendezvous
Still under testing, but Pocket Rendezvous will bring network auto-discovery to PPC which is a very cool idea! If you read through on the Gizmodo page you can learn how to get in on the testing. Using Pocket Rendezvous, users can set up a personal, auto-discoverable web servers for a variety of purposes, such as … Read morePocket Rendezvous
Linksys WRT54G Security Flaw
I’ve got the WRT54G on the brain… seems like a very cool system regardless of this flaw which is sure to be fixed soon. The Linksys WRT54G wireless router, an 802.11g Access Point and 4-port 10/100 Switch has a security problem, reports WiFiNetNews and WiFi Planet. The Linksys unit could give malicious hackers administrative access, … Read moreLinksys WRT54G Security Flaw
del.icio.us Plugin
Looking good with more functionality to come as well… Currently in the works: the world’s simplest functioning WordPress plugin, designed simply to fetch one’s bookmarks from del.icio.us. [Among Other Things]