atmaspheric | endeavors

So thanks to a great tutorial by Carthik here -
http://carthik.net/wpdocs/emailblog.html - I am now able to blog by
email which has some nice advantages in some mobile situations as well
as if you just want to quickly post something received in your mail
client.
I’ve got it set to post hourly so there may [...]

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I love this idea and would pay the price of a CD to do it…maybe a dollar or two more. 128K AAC files are fine, but it would certainly be nice to be able to use other formats if you wanted to. Instant fulfillment plus…
Wouldn’t it be great if when you bought a [...]

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Google said that it planned to list its $2.7 billion initial public offering with the Nasdaq stock market, dealing a blow to the New York Stock Exchange. [The New York Times > Technology]
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Picasa enables users to easily manage and share digital photographs, and its technologies complement Google’s ongoing mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful… [PhotographyBLOG]
This photo sharing - posting to blog is heating up. As JD pointed out yesterday, Flickr now also supports posting to blogs and many [...]

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I have yet to try this, but it seems the main limitation is the size of the SD card you carry which enables the compression size to expand. Looks like it is designed for the T3…which they say plays better than a PPC.
Carry DVD movies in your pocket. Turn boring time into fun right [...]

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You might want to stop and think about this one for a second.
Newsweek reports: “American counterterrorism officials, citing what they call “alarming” intelligence about a possible Qaeda strike inside the United States this fall, are reviewing a proposal that could allow for the postponement of the November presidential election in the event [...]

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Saw this one pop up as a new update today and gave it a whirl while eating some breakfast… It’s definitely worth a go! I knew it was chugging along a bit, but had no idea it could be clear this easily.

System Optimizer X can improve your system’s speed and stability using the [...]

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Thanks to a link at Boing Boing, I discovered this application for the iPod. Lookout Berlitz!
Talking Panda sets a new standard for language translation software. Designed for the iPod, it’s stocked with over three hundred essential words and phrases of the language you want to speak, organized for instant access. … Virtual fluency [...]

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This is great stuff - an excellent trip down video game memory lane.
Nintendo Breakz is a collection of 40 short (<45 sec) remixes of classic Nintendo theme music. [Boing Boing]
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Arrow Launcher is a slick pop-up shortcut launcher for the Palm OS. It works great with both graffiti and keyboard devices…
Arrow Launcher is a new type of launcher that launches applications, e-mail, contacts, and can SMS a contact, DIAL a contact, PLAY an mp3, and load a bookmark, launch applications AND contacts [...]

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Just signed up… what the hell right? If you know me and want to talk, you can send an email and we can give this a whirl. I’m still hoping that Skype is an interesting bit for Mac when it arrives and may switch over to it when that day finally comes.
With SIPphone, [...]

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Alleged Hacker Now Works for Microsoft
A man accused of hacking into search engine company AltaVista’s computer systems about two years ago is now employed by Microsoft, reportedly working on search technology. [eWEEK]
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Competition for advanced web services is heating up! Oddpost also noted in the recent WSJ article on feedreaders, combines a nice webmail client with a feedreader… it should be very interesting to see how this falls into place in the world of Yahoo. I’ll be looking forward to giving it a whirl for [...]

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In addition to additional format support, I’d suggest more platform support as well. Most people using windows are not buying media center PCs which this is catered around and there are certainly people using older windows versions, not to mention Mac and Linux PCs.
I still like the Portable Media device idea, have to wait [...]

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Listening now…as usual, it’s a very interesting conversation with people who are not only well connected, but highly involved.
I just posted the July 9 show with special guest Brendan Eich, chief architect, Mozilla Foundation. (Is this the start of Browser War II? Can Mozilla-based browsers corner 6% of the market by year end? And if [...]

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This is a totally cool way to access the SD slot on a Palm without removing it and having to use a card reader… works on Mac as well as PC.
TreoCentral gives a short, but very positive preview of the latest version of Card Export II, a bit of software that emulates the USB [...]

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Might want to snag this before it has to get pulled down…
Jon “DVD Jon” Johansen has released FairKeys, a program for extracting your iTunes DRM FairPlay keys from Apple’s servers.
Link
[Boing Boing]
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Paging through the latest Fortune I came across an ad from PalmOne featuring the Treo 600 with GoodLink. The ad highlights Sprint, ATT, Cingular, T-Mobile and … Verizon Wireless. Can’t imagine what might be holding this back now. Perhaps just some pressure from Palm to VZW, to get it going already?
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Tom Weber (not Walt Mossberg) introduces Feed Readers and mass-blog reading to the audience in the latest Personal Technology column. He reviews FeedDemon, NewsGator, Oddpost and Bloglines which turns out to be his favorite based on the ability to read the same subscriptions across machines.
While he mentions the pending release of Safari [...]

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Nothing too revolutionary, but still good to see.
palmOne today introduced a resource center for Mac enthusiasts who want to get the most out of their palmOne handhelds and smartphones. New web pages highlight using iPhoto, wireless syncing and many mac friendly applications. [PalmInfocenter]
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