a multi-tasked stream of consciousness or perhaps just emails to myself
Whether you like PocketPC or not (not…) this is a very good looking phone…
Legend, one of the biggest PC manufacturers in China, has a new Pocket PC Phone coming out next month that has a real keypad that folds out rather than the virtual keypad that’s found on models from T-Mobile, Siemens, and Samsung.
Read[Gizmodo]
In recent months, growing numbers of investors and analysts have concluded that satellite radio companies just might succeed. [New York Times: Business]
Since I am now way past the 15,000 track usable limit of iTunes my options for managing and listening to music day to day have had to change. For streaming music to my stereo, at work or on my laptop, I work with SliMP3 which allows me to use my browser or the IR remote with my stereo to control the tracks.
On our desktop computer I have been playing with an interesting player/manager called MP3 Voodoo. By far the most interesting feature is “view by cover” which is like having all of your albums on your desktop. You see everything, sort and select as you might normally expect, but the focus is mainly visual. Of course you need to have the covers saved (as cover.jpg) in each album folder of MP3s that you collect… Seeing the covers is a great way to recall what you have and also explore music you might not have listened to in a while. They can also be reviewed while listening much like you might have an album out on your coffee table as you listen.
SliMP3 is about to support covers which will let you view the cover of albums that are playing, though you will still be limited to choosing what to listen to by the usual text options.
Since covers don’t automatically get pulled in with albums that get ripped (in any app I have tried), the process is unfortunately pretty manual. There are a few apps that can find covers, but they have been less than perfect and actually pull down the occasional incorrect picture, which kills any faith you might have for things to run in large batches. My solution is an espresso of two (or three) and some time to kill. This weekend was very successful for cover retrieval, but I am sure there will be many more filled with tracking down the rest. I think my current album count is over 1800 at the moment… I am sure it will continue to grow!
I can’t say that we saw anything quite like this….. I doubt that our two cats would be even remotely as tolerant as the cats on this page. It’s so ridiculous, it must me shared…
This is one of those internet moments…
Someone on eBay is selling what looks like to be the Tungsten C, a new handheld from Palm that hasn’t even been announced yet and that’s supposed to come with built-in WiFi. Looks like it’s the real deal (or an incredibly elaborate fake), and the bidding is already up to $800.
Read[Gizmodo]
I risked an arrest by airport security to bring you this photo… hope you enjoy!
This looks very cool… gives you an iPhoto view of your footage (from all your source tapes) and allows you to then pull directly into iMovie.
T-Squared Software has released FootTrack 1.0, a new application that allows you to import, organize and search your digital video tape footage. The software also lets you compress your footage, allowing for more tapes to be stored on your hard drive. A 60 minute tape of digital video takes up approximately 12.5GB of disk. When compressed in FootTrack it takes approximately 180MB including images for each clip. FootTrack runs on Mac OS X and costs US$29.95 [MacMinute.com]
Home entertainment company D&M Holdings says it won a bankruptcy court auction for the ReplayTV digital video recorder and Rio MP3 business units. The winning bid: $36.2 million. [CNET News.com Personal Technology]
The company is unveiling a new branding approach for its server-software products to synch up with next week’s launch of Windows Server 2003 and to clarify the muddled .Net label. [CNET News.com]
This tip works from all apps… Just set the Safari pref and you are good to go. Seems silly that Apple would not have noted this functionality within the pref itself. The way things are worded would lead you to believe that the page you are on would be replaced with the new request.
I’m using the latest version of Safari (1.0b2, v73).
Here’s a tip for NetNewsWire users: if you want links to open in new tabs in Safari, do this in Safari’s preferences:
1. In the General preferences, at the bottom, click “Open links from applications in the current window.”
2. In the Tabs preferences, click Enabled Tabbed Browsing.
Then, when you’re opening links from within NetNewsWire, each one should open in a new tab in Safari. [inessential.com]
Doug Rushkoff has created an “Open Source Hagaddah” — a Passover Seder prayer-book that anyone can contribute to and annotate.
sounds good… if we ever move to a space too large for my Airport this would be the way to expand the network.
Dave “Technorati” Sifry and Sputnik have released their first Linux-based, commodity hardware WiFi access point. The Sputnik AP is self-configuring, secure, and open to hacking — based on Seth Schoen’s Bootable Business Card Linux distro. Sweet.
Just set up a Sputnik Central Control installation anywhere within your network, and then start plugging in Sputnik AP 120s right into your LAN. The AP 120s autoconfigure themselves, seek out Central Control, and automatically implement a wide range of security and management features, like dynamic firewalling, SSL-based user authentication, usage tracking, and policy routing. Central control allows administrators to easily set up and configure the captive portal, manage users, monitor AP usage, and generate reports. Gone are custom MAC address tables or per-AP configuration – and when you want to cover more area, simply purchase more AP 120s and plug them into your LAN.
I’ve noticed that the autofill function in Safari seems to prefer that you press return or enter rather than click submit. I guess this makes some sense as the buttons could be programmed differently. When you hit return, you should see a dialog box asking whether you want to have the login info saved…
CBS Marketwatch is reporting that media giant News Corp. has bought 19.9 percent of Hughes Electronics for 6.6 billion dollars in order to gain control of DirecTV and its 11,000,000 subscribers. GM will retain a minority share in Hughes. (via AudioRevolution)
Are you a geek? Do you travel often? Don’t you wish there was a way to find out whether a hotel in your travel area offers broadband? It’s Geektel, a listing of hotels that offer… [Mr. Barrett]
While on Vacation I did a complete shutdown (the reason there were not any posts) followed by an excessive amount of travel for business… In that time I saw many differences between what hotels offer the traveler for access.
In Cancun Mexico, you can get a wireless net connection at the Ritz Carlton hotel for a staggering $30 per 24 hours. I really did find this to be a shocking price. You can get almost get month of access for that amount!
When I arrived in SoCal the Doubletree hotel offered a wired broadband connection for FREE. You just have to register on their proxy page and you are good to go.
In Park City Utah at the Canyons resort there is only a standard phone connection and there was actually no desk in my room to work on. The business office could supply a connection on one of there systems at rates of about $5/hour.
The Houston, Vegas and Salt Lake City Airports did not have any wireless access that I could find. In Irvine at John Wayne Airport, you can find a T-Mobile connection (near the Starbucks at the food court) but it was absolutely not allowing connections the day I was there two weeks ago.
It is amazing who and where it is gotten. The traveling and connected person really needs to do a bit for homework in advance in order to be sure of connectivity options. More and more clients have secure networks (as they should) which make it impossible to just plug-in and do your thing. I guess this certainly makes a wireless device like a Blackberry pretty attractive to maintain a connection with the office.
You can now read blogs on your Palm via plucker thanks to this new release… Giving it a whirl now…
UPDATE – This does not seem to work in OS X 10.2.5 If I learn more I will post it.
Seems like it may actually happen according to the NY and LA Times…
With a bid of between 5 and 6 Billion, Steve Jobs could become the most powerful man in the music business.
While not the only Mac user, Rael is the only successful Mac (iBook) photo in the latest unWired issue. Everything else is Centrino…
Atmaspheric Standard Time (thanks to William Gibson for the idea) is what I have been experiencing the past week.
I have been in every time zone in North America this week including two visits to Pacific.
Monday Central to Pacific
Tuesday Pacific
Wednesday Pacific to Mountain
Thursday Mountain to Pacific
Friday Pacific to Eastern
I can hardly wait for Daylight Savings on Sunday to even more fully work over my internal clock!