atmaspheric | endeavors

Coming eventually to a heated seat near you…
Norman Rohrer, chief designer of the PowerPC 970FX chip used in Apple’s Power Mac G5 desktops and Xserve servers, said the same chip that IBM uses for its desktop machines can also be used comfortably within future PowerBook notebooks through a power-management technique called “PowerTune.”
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I guess there was some demand for a quality service…
Apple said it had sold over 800,000 tracks through its iTunes online music store in Europe in the first week since its launch. [Yahoo! News - Digital Music]

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We may have just had the best pizza in New York!
Totonno’s recently opened a location near where we live, so it’s not only easy to visit to dine-in but also within delivery range! Since the storm front was moving in quickly tonight we decided to go for delivery, which took considerably longer than the [...]

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Gizmodo is reporting on some more detail of the next generation Treo…
The short list is very appealing: slightly smaller form factor, 320 by 320 screen, working Bluetooth, context-sensitive “soft buttons,” more phone-like red/end, green/send buttons, a 312MHz processor, and a 1.3-megapixel camera, all running on top of Palm OS 5.4 (Garnet).
Sounds killer to me. [...]

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In honor of Friday…courtesy of Boing Boing! It’s a 30 MB WMV movie… for when you click the link.
Office Space Wars is one of the funniest amateur video projects I’ve ever seen: it’s a remake of Office Space, set in the Star Wars Universe, with Vader as the bad boss, Jar Jar as the [...]

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Just had a few dogs (yeah I know it’s early) at the Shake Shack and thought I’d file a small report for those interested parties… judging by my traffic reports, there are quite a few of you.
At the moment you can get Hot Dogs, Soda and Beer, Fries and Ice Cream. The full menu [...]

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We can hope…
This time the rumored Treo 610 looks about the same as the current one, and is said to have built-in Bluetooth, a faster 312MHz processor, 32MB of RAM, a higher-resolution 320×320 LCD screen, dedicated answer and disconnect buttons, and a 1.2 megapixel digital camera. [Engadget]

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Just in from Palminfocenter…
Mark/Space has announced version 4.0 of The Missing Sync for Palm OS. Expected to ship in August, this version supersedes PalmSource’s aging HotSync Manager for Mac OS X. [PalmInfocenter]
“When we set out to revitalize Mac-to-Palm synchronization, it was our intention to provide users with three things,” said Brian Hall, [...]

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Feedburner is very cool - imagine all the information you don’t have about your subscription usage and well…Voila! Sure it could be better, but wow I love the detail you get!
24 hours since I implemented and I am seeing click-throughs, what’s being read and how people are reading my stuff…

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I received an email, a Press Release actually, for iDive and after checking it out on the website, I have to say it looks very cool. You can catalogue your digital video and still content, get a poster frame view of what you have within each video recording, tag things by people or places [...]

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While I was trying to avoid the site, I decided to check out Ugoff, the new site for BK by Crispin Porter, professional curiosity pulled me in… It’s not as crazy as Subservient Chicken, but it very well done and pretty funny. Ugoff looks like Matt Stone of South Park fame, yet sounds [...]

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ARINC and Telenor say that they will soon market new technology to allow airline passengers to use personal mobile phones aboard commercial flights, according to Cellular News. [textually.org]

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This is too cool - iChatAV while flying at 35,000 feet!
Sometimes technology creeps up on you, goes boo!, and suddenly you realize you are living in yesterday’s science fiction. Wireless broadband is now offered on several Lufthansa flights, and hence iChat AV video conferencing, as these Apple employees enjoy telling us… [MemeFirst]

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Nice overview of how the QM2 gets controlled… no wheel at all. I liked how the Captain said they were just looking out the window while docking in NY (hands free) as the ship was doing a better job than they would have. It’s like the HAL 9000 for cruising the high seas. [...]

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If you believe this … rumored specs for the T4
Summary — Slightly faster processor, a tad more memory, 802.11G and Bluetooth, no keyboard.
OPERATING SYSTEM
Palm OS 6.0.0
PROCESSOR
450MHz Intel XScale
STRETCH DISPLAY
320×480 color Transflective TFT display with portrait and landscape
support.
BUILT-IN BLUETOOTH & WiFi TECHNOLOGY
Communicate wirelessly and share files, photos and more with nearby
Bluetooth devices via integrated Bluetooth, [...]

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gCount is a menubar item that will display the number of unread messages in the inbox of your Gmail account… makes webmail more useful! [MacMegaSite]

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I just stumbled across iTunesWatcher 2.5 which is an applescript based app that posts active tracks from iTunes automatically to your site… There are definitely other apps or ways to do this (like Kung Tunes), but I think this one is the most sophisticated yet simple to configure. I’ve set up a page to [...]

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Camino .8 was officially released today… highly recommended browser choice for the Mac. I’ve been using it for some time through the daily builds and really dig it.

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I just deployed this … made it quite easy to add some Google Ad Banners per post as well as every X posts on my main and category pages.
MooseCandy is a little plugin to help you stick content into your WordPress layout, just before a post. You can read more about it above and [...]

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An America Online software engineer was charged Wednesday with harvesting a list of 92 million customer screen names that was eventually used to send spam… [Wall Street Journal]

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