atmaspheric | endeavors

Last night I learned while speaking with a recruiter that my resume had already been passed to the company we had started to discuss, yet I have no idea by whom… if it’s you, thanks! And by the way… who are you?
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I don’t live near a PalmOne Store (well without a car NJ and the Philly airport are a bit far), but if you do, this might be a good chance to upgrade/trade-in for a Treo 600…
Just bring your old handheld computer or smartphone to any palmOne retail location by June 30, 2004 and get $50 [...]

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Very cool…
This was going to be “How-To increase the range of your iTrip mini”. But after playing around with the new iTrip mini, the FM broadcasting accessory for the iPod (our review here) our little minds got working on some ideas. We thought we might be able to make the range of Griffin’s iTrip mini [...]

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This is hardly surprising… given the adoption of digital by consumers and the acceleration of professional level equipment to market.
Reuters - Japan’s Nikon Corp said on Tuesday that it was boosting its production capacity for a hot-selling
digital single-lens reflex (SLR) camera, while eyeing an eventual exit from film compact cameras due to sliding demand. [...]

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Yahoo will announce Tuesday that it has revamped its mail products, increasing the storage on its paid and free products to 2 gigabytes and 100 mbytes, respectively. Is this a big deal? Yes. [John Battelle's Searchblog]
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I’ve got more Gmail invites to give away. 2 of 3 are spoken for… though not given out given the last round. That leaves one more for someone else reading this.
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Firebird and Thunderbird have been updated.
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This rocks!
Lotsa people know about BugMeNot, the centralized database of usernames and passwords for Web sites that require free registration (such as, alas, many news sites). But have you seen the bookmarklet?
On the BugMeNot home page, click on the link that says “bookmarklet” and drag it to your bookmarks/favorites. From then on, whenever you’re at [...]

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Looks good…
Kepmad Systems announced on Monday the release of ImageBuddy 3.0, the new version of its photo printing tool that also expands iPhoto’s printing options through drag-and-drop support. The upgrade adds higher resolution printing, mouse scroll wheel support, rotate text support, the ability to add transparent background images to page layouts, bug fixes and more. [...]

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Via Scoble, I came across this quote over at Kevin Schofield’s Weblog:
Marketing is a difficult discipline, that requires both theoretical and practical knowledge. Just as marketing people should respect technical people, technical people should respect marketing people. I think in the long run one of the most important business lessons that people will take away [...]

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Barnes and Noble in Union Square has a free Cometa Hot spot while it’s in beta… I guess until they figure out who is going to take it over. Enjoying it myself at the moment…
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Without a deal (like a cellular subsidy) on price this is pretty much an impossible sell…
It’s official, the HD TiVOs have finally begun shipping. They’re going to be priced at around a thousand bucks for now, but expect a new customer special in the next few months that should make it cheaper (I’m going to [...]

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This is one cool looking and powerful phone!
Nokia announced their new heavy-hitter 3G handset today in Helsinki. The new Series 60 powered 6630 not only supports WCDMA 3G and GSM/EDGE networks, but it even has a 1.23MP camera. It can record videos of up to 1h in length, and even print photos directly [...]

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This is something I’ve wondered and commented on many times to my wife as we’ve walked around the city…
Can someone explain to me why all the watches in the MSN direct ads are upside-down? [Michael Gartenberg]

It seems some creative director thought they liked the look of the watch in right side up [...]

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Pixingo PhotoFirst looks like a very powerful way to manage digital workflow for professional photographers… Looks good for amateurs as well! Just starting to play with it… there’s a 30 day demo.
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AdTunes lets you find the music used in commercials…
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eHomeupgrade has a scoop on a new NAS (Network Attached Storage) device which looks like a great way to enable backups as well as streaming content at home. It’s a definite competitor to the Mirra system, which conveniently was running a banner on the page…
The NetDisk works with networked and non-networked homes (via Ethernet [...]

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I don’t get too many requests to promote, but what the heck…
I received an email today notifying me about a blog Sensory Impact, which is a nice looking design focused blog, in which Douglas Rushkoff is a guest contributor.
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Having issues… want to formally report them?
New WordPress bug tracker [Photo Matt]
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Backup Buddy has always been a great piece of software…
Blue Nomad has released BackupBuddy 2.0. BackupBuddy 2.0 is the first product available that uses a unique process for backing up devices and storing all changes made to the device since the last backup in a database enabling users to restore a device to any point [...]

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