Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jul 22nd, 2008 4 Comments »
WordPress for iPhone
Introducing the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.5.1 or higher).
Dang, this is very cool. I’m quite loyal to MarsEdit as a non-web based editor (I use it to [...]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jun 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Google and Creator of ‘Family Guy’ Strike a Deal
Google, which calls the distribution service the Google Content Network, until now has only dabbled in distributing original content. In May, it announced a deal with The Washington Post to distribute real estate listings from the newspaper’s Web site in a similar manner.
I guess it was just [...]
Posted in Ideas, Tech Stuff, Video on Jun 27th, 2008 No Comments »
This is a 50 minute documentary on the history of Google, their technology, and the various things they’re working on including the various controversies about stored personal information, public access to information, and more. It’s quite well done and worth watching.
Note: toward the end at about 44:20 the interviewer asks Vint Cerf a question about [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Politics, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Laptop Searches in Airports Draw Fire at Senate Hearing
Russ Feingold:
“If you asked most Americans whether the government has the right to look through their luggage for contraband when they are returning from an overseas trip, they would tell you ‘yes, the government has that right,’ ” Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, said Wednesday at [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Tech Stuff on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
State of the Art: When Your Camera Knows Where You Are
When I first read about this wifi card I thought it was a gimmick but the last part of this article, on geotragging is brilliant. Wireless transfer is not for DSLRs that make huge RAW files but the geotagging does sound like it would be [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jun 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
Apple Portables: Reducing cable strain on your MagSafe power adapter
Wow, more than you’ll ever want to know about how to wrap cable and take care of your MacBook or MacBook Pro power adapter. Good stuff actually.
[via Scott James]
Posted in Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff, Video on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Online service lets blind surf the Internet from any computer, anywhere
This is a fantastic service and no doubt will be useful for people who can see but can’t read. I urge you to watch the entire video to see how it works.
Posted in Humor, Tech Stuff, Video on Jun 25th, 2008 9 Comments »
The Website is Down
Oh my god, this is incredible. I’m speechless, it’s an instant classic. David, you need to watch this immediately!
[via Derek Powazek]
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
WordPress To Disable Remote Access (by default)
What does this mean? It means that those of us using clients like MarsEdit will have to turn on remote access in WordPress 2.6 to allow MarsEdit to communicate with it.
No big deal, you upgrade to 2.6, find the control, turn it on, done forever (well, until 2.7 where [...]
Posted in Tech Stuff, Travel, Video on Jun 19th, 2008 No Comments »
This is great news. It’s a start and we’ll have to see how it goes but at least it’s a start. Now, if United will follow suit on their NY-LA runs I’ll be happy.
The other thing folks in coach will want to keep in mind is that turning on wifi without AC power will use [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Jun 17th, 2008 6 Comments »
15″ MacBook Pro Vertical Striping Issue
Yep, I’ve had this happen once. Restarting computer solved it but it worried me for a few minues until I did. No doubt there will be a recall. Then what? Lose the machine for a few days? No feaking way, this is my sole machine. Ugh.
Posted in Macintosh, Movies, Music, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jun 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
United Airlines Offering iPod/iPhone Connectivity on International Flights
Plug in, watch your content on their screen. Interesting and no doubt great. Only on business and first class. The rest of us will have to watch movies on small screens or hope our MacBook Pro batteries will go the distance.
I don’t care about the screen. Power to [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jun 12th, 2008 10 Comments »
NetNewsWire for iPhone
I don’t have an iPhone yet but am considering an iPod Touch. Having NNW on it would be fantastic and of course, would give me reason to start using NewsGator to keep things synced. This will be very much like Apple’s MobileMe. Great stuff.
[via SimpleBits]
Posted in Ideas, Stories, Tech Stuff, Video on Jun 9th, 2008 No Comments »
[bit] The Machine That Changed the World
The Machine That Changed the World is the longest, most comprehensive documentary about the history of computing ever produced, but since its release in 1992, it’s become virtually extinct. Out of print and never released online, the only remaining copies are VHS tapes floating around school libraries or in [...]
Posted in Photo Resources, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Jun 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
TinEye is a new web site that takes an image that you supply it and searches for copies of it on the web. It does not work with key words but with pixel and EXIF data so even images that have been cropped or photoshopped can be found.
Wow!
It’s in beta but I’ve just signed up [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Politics, Social Software, Tech Stuff on May 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Roger Cohen has an excellent editorial in today’s NY Times: The Obama Connection where he discussed the connection between Obama’s experience as a community organizer putting him in a perfect position to appreciate and use web-based communication and organizing to help drive his campaign and introduce himself to people who don’t know about him.
If Obama [...]
Posted in Movies, Tech Stuff on May 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
Netflix to Sell a Device for Instantly Watching Movies on TV Sets
Unlike the Apple TV or TiVo devices, the Roku box does not have a hard drive. It plays video directly from the Internet by way of an Ethernet cable or home wireless network. That means that the picture could freeze on slow Internet connections. [...]
Posted in Social Software, Tech Stuff on May 15th, 2008 No Comments »
CBS to Buy CNET for $1.8 Billion
Are we moving into another tech bubble? Sure looks like it. This is insane.
[via Longboard]
Posted in Ideas, Places, Tech Stuff, Video on Apr 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
Angeles Saura has a nice collection of videos on the making of a Sony Bravia Commercial on color.
One (balls) was shot in San Francisco, the other (paint) was shot in Glasgow.
It’s quite amazing how much goes into making a very short but dramatic commercial. The music and sound is wonderful, the entire process is well [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Apr 17th, 2008 No Comments »
PayPal Plans to Ban Unsafe Browsers
PayPal is going to build anti “phishing” features into their online transaction software and Safari currently doesn’t support those features.
Crap.
[via Daring Fireball Linked List]
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