atmaspheric | endeavors

I slept horribly last night…
I leave in about an hour to head to the hospital for hand surgery. Partial discovery and part repair… The ligament damage I have suffered cannnot be repaired with this procedure but the cartilage can. The Arthroscopic procedure will allow for a significant (I hope) amount [...]

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Brent Rocks! Making it easier to work the Lazyweb…
NetNewsWire 1.0b14 adds a new command to the Services menu: Subscribe in NetNewsWire.
When you select text—the URL in the address bar of Safari or Chimera, for instance—you can choose the Subscribe in NetNewsWire command to subscribe to the site associated with that URL.
NetNewsWire of course uses [...]

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There are actually two concerns about 802.11g. Concern No. 1 is whether the technology will work with legacy 802.11b clients; the big fear is that legacy 802.11b clients could be knocked off the air in favor of 802.11g kit in crowded networks. Concern No. 2: whether all 802.11g products will be able to interoperate, particularly [...]

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Note to self… Philip Morris is now Altria.
some rejected tag lines…

NEW YORK —The world’s largest tobacco company, Philip Morris, officially changed its name Monday to Altria Group. “This name change is entirely cosmetic in nature,” said Martin Feldman, tobacco industry analyst at Merrill Lynch.
[USA Today: Money]

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Samsung recently showed of its new Palm-powered smart phone, the SPH-i500 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The SPH-i500 runs on CDMA 1xrtt networks and uses Palm OS 4.1. The handset features Graffiti handwriting, a 16-tone polyphonic ringer, a GPS-based locator called gpsOne, voice dialing, and voice memo. The phone also has connections [...]

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From [MacSlash]

Here’s what the next version will be:
a stand-alone application that manages network accessible music libraries
able to generate and manage playlists for your favorite mp3 player
able to communicate with and control your mp3 player using AppleEvents
Rendezvous-enabled
built with a robust indexer and XML format that properly handles non-ASCII characters

completely [...]

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We all use and love Safari, it’s already a great browser. Organising bookmarks is easier than ever before, but wouldn’t is be nice if the bookmarks you add on your iMac at work, would show up on your PowerBook at home? Now it’s possible with JeepSafari. Think of it as iSync for Safari.
[SweetCocoa]

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It was only a matter of time…. This paper has lost much signifance and relevance since the dot com hey day. I would expect that whoever does buy it (if anyone) merges it into their existing biz pub.
Crain’s NY reports that Jason Calacanis is putting Rising Tide Studios (the parent company of Venture [...]

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I really do believe that Apple is really working to make a full defection from MS Office while maintaining the compatibility but of course enhancing things in the “oh so Apple way.”

Potentially the most interesting Apple software software rumour — especially in concert with Keynote — is Document, an MS Word killer. As whispered [...]

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An underground campaign to draft Steve Jobs as a candidate for president is snuffed out in short order by the man himself. The Apple CEO said he was flattered, but not interested in the job. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News - Technology]

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Big Blue on Monday will release a new family of ThinkPads that feature dual-band wireless and fashion choices when it comes to the navigational stick on the keyboard. [CNET News.com Enterprise Computing]

The high-end members of the line come with dual-band wireless technology built in. Dual-band wireless makes it possible to create 300-foot zones to send [...]

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In an effort to get the market for PT Cruisers younger, Chrysler is looking to offer a new 6 year lease term that includes special music and arts events as a bonus. According to the article, a 6 year lease poses some new risk into the financial equation, since more people tend to default [...]

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Right on! right on!

Now that I’ve started using NetNewsWire to read blogs, I find it frustrating to be constantly switching back and forth between NetNewsWire and Safari. This led me to wonder: should RSS capabilities and browsing capabilities be merged into a single “uber-browser” application?

[Confessions of a MozillianR

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This year’s college freshmen reported spending less time studying and more time on computers in their senior year of high school than any previous entering class, says the latest annual survey of first-year college students. [USA Today: Nation]

“Typing a topic into a (search engine) is certainly faster than physically looking for something in a [...]

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All of these can be seen at iFilm
Q1
Budweiser - Zebra
Zebra as referee. Cute. A Zebra reviews the replay of a horse game. Cowboy 1 calls him a jackass, Cowboy 2 says “no that’s a zebra.”
Pepsi - Osbournes
pretty lame with the Osbourne kids turning into the Osmonds.
Fedex - Castaway
why did they wait so [...]

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I finally dealt and added an RDF feed that works with RSS 2.0. You can replace the RSS 1.0 feed with this one if you prefer. Links and the few pictures I post will now come through in your newsreaders. Both feeds fully validate so you should have no issue with either.
More [...]

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So here’s a good question for you. How do you politely request someone’s kid to shut up? We can regularly here our neighbor’s kids screaming, both in pleasure and with tears, from their apartment and within the halls. In their apartment, OK. I am can deal with that. But in [...]

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The Enzo is Ferrari’s latest exotic sports car is capable of exeeding the top interstate speed limit by, oh, 147 miles an hour. [New York Times: Business]

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Nice!! Finally everything from one place!
NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b13 adds—at long last—support for categories editing for Radio, Movable Type, and Manila (news items) sites.
Here are the change notes. [inessential.com]

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According to mac.fryke.com:
Valentine’s day, our sources say, is the day we’ll see them. 15.4″ displays, aluminum enclosure & Bluetooth. Firewire 800 is in, too, no information about the keyboard backlighting is available, though.

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