a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself
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…
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 and even move frames and pictures over to iPhoto for still capture. Of course you can also use it for pulling feeds into Final Cut or iMovie. Here’s a clip from the release…
MONTPELLIER, FRANCE – 21 JUNE 2004 : A new Mac OS X application just released is set to redefine the standards in managing digital video (DV) clips. This new product called iDive™ offers semi-professional users a robust on-screen digital video shoebox to store clips and still images. The application includes truly innovative tools that make navigation both easy and fast, regardless of the number of clips being stored. Power previewing, customizable views, “drag & drop” attribute tagging and a timeline display turn any assortment of disorganised tapes into an instantly accessible library of digital video that can be enjoyed at any time. Designed to sit alongside DV editing applications, iDive promises to eliminate the frustration and time-wasting in locating and viewing clips hidden amongst hours of footage, by simplifying visualisation, tagging, storage, organisation and retrieval of digital video clips and photos. Information and download from aquafadas.com Price: 49.95
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 and dresses more like Mike Meyers from Sprockets. The interesting thing about the site which promotes the BK Salad and the bag it comes in is that it actually promotes up and coming designers of pretty fashionable women’s handbags.
The buzz is not as strong as the chicken was – you only get one of those without people knowing it’s an ad the next time, but seems to be a nice next move for both BK and the Agency. This time the site accompanied by a TV Spot directed by Roman Coppola, so it’s not exactly viral, though word or mouth seems to be pushing this. (That and of course the NYT Advertsising Section mention earlier in the week)
As a side note I mis-typed the url for the Chicken and it still resolved correctly… smart play.
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]
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]
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. The crew is there to assure safety and to backstop the technology.
Propulsion pods, joysticks and computers help make the Queen Mary 2 nimble. [New York Times]
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, as well as accesing
network via IEEE802.11g.
BATTERY
Rechargeable 1100mAh Lithium Polymer battery. Longer time on road.
BUILT-IN MICROPHONE
Record your thoughts with optimized Voice Record button on side of
device.
MEMORY
96MB (84MB actual storage capacity)
EXPANSION SLOT
Supports SD, SDIO and MultiMediaCard expansion cards (sold
separately) to add memory, content like a travel card, or even an
SDIO card like a digital camera.
5-WAY NAVIGATOR BUTTON
Easily access important information with just one hand.
BUILT-IN SPEAKER & STEREO HEADPHONE JACK
Listen to tunes, games, videos or voice recordings with built-in
mono speaker or stereo headphones with standard 3.5 mm headphone
jack. (Headphones sold separately. MP3s require SD card, sold
separately.)
Size:
Height: 4.3 in. (closed)
Width: 3.0 in.
Thickness: 0.66 in.
Weight(Handheld + Stylus): 5.6 oz
ESP: USD 459
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]
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 track my listening… will probably work in more into the flow of my site when I get more of a chance.
My only glitch so far is that my music is based off of a different machine than the one I am on, and the applescript does not seem to like that too much for now. I copied the library file from the other computer to my laptop and am connected to the remote drive storing my tunes to stream and that works.
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.
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 read the comments in the code for usage instructions. [Weblog Tools Collection]
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]
Made some changes to my template today and believe it’s all good. Basically I am redirecting my old WP generated feed to one being managed by Feedburner so I can get some stats on who’s reading and what’s being read.
Please let me know if you notice something funky.
MobileTracker reports on Nextel’s latest product enhancement, NextMail… From the sound of it, NextMail could be a very slick way to stay in touch indirectly, yet directly with quite a few people in your workgroup (or friends if you’re down with higher monthly fees) through a streaming MP3 audio message.
NextMail can facilitate group e-mails – up to 50 addresses at once – and the recipient of a NextMail message can easily respond to the originator in text (SMS) form. Customers can also deliver NextMail messages to their own e-mail inboxes as verbal reminders or to record meeting notes. [MobileTracker]
Just a phrase that really irks me in the days of flat-rate unlimited phone pricing…
Just sitting outside a Borders in Connecticut in my rental car pre-interview — pulling down some email and checking in with the world… Gotta love hotspots that reach beyond the physical structure!
TheGmail Loader will Import Your Mbox or Maildir Files into GMail. Caters to Windows users, but there is a Linux Version with Python Source code available as well. Hopefully that means that there will be an OS X version soon…
So the card and driver are finally getting close though it seems it will only initially work with the Zire 71. Aside from how ridiculous this is that it’s not even the latest Zire, the driver won’t work on any other OS 5 device until Palm One steps up and provides the appropriate assistance as each model has different requirement. For some strange reason this help is either lacking or inadequate. Seems PalmOne wants to be the one to bring WiFi to units with Bluetooth itself… though this has yet to materialize.
Even if the card was $150 without additional memory, I bet it would be a good seller. There are some hungry Palm users out there with Treos, T3s and Zires all looking to get this.
SanDisk would like to make this card compatible with other palmOne models, but it isn’t getting the co-operation it needs. The Zire 72 and Tungsten T3 need to have a system patch applied before their SD slots can use this card. According to SanDisk, palmOne won’t publicly release this. Instead, the patch will be built into the driver that palmOne will release with its Wi-Fi SD card, which is expected to be available soon. This patch isn’t something SanDisk can develop itself, which means that the only option for Wi-Fi SD cards for the Zire 72 and Tungsten T3 is the one palmOne itself will sell.
SanDisk promises to try to make versions of all of its SD products compatible with as many palmOne products as possible. However, it says the lack of support from palmOne makes this difficult. SanDisk can’t release its SD card that combines Wi-Fi and 256 MB of storage without further assistance from palmOne. [Brighthand]
An interesting approach if you use the device as a main form of info gathering, but I think you’ll be better off filtering from one central location and getting the benefits on the go… I guess it all depends on much control you have over your server.
Software publisher SymbianWare has announced a new e-mail utility for Symbian OS-based smartphones. SpamKiller is the first spam-filtering program for Symbian OS. It works using a customizable blacklist and content-filters to identify likely spam messages and diverts them from the device’s main inbox. Flagged messages go into a separate log file so that the user can later review them for false positives. Filtered messages also do not trigger an incoming message alarm, so it acts silently in the background without interrupting the user. The log file is cleared after a set period of time to save space. [infoSync]
Has anyone figured out how to print a borderless shot with iPhoto?
I’ve tried many different paper types and have found it impossible. The result is always a white border on 2 sides for 4×6 prints. When I use the card from my camera directly in my printer – an HP Photosmart 7960 – it works great. It’s easy to print from the printer, but it would be nice to select from our collection and print from the computer without having to copy to the card first…