Technology
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MacOS X Email Client?
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2 min read
So I recently upgraded to MacOS X and for the most part I’m loving it. But I haven’t found an email client that sings. So far I hear the MacOS X Mail program is kinda lameI’ve used Eudora in the past, and I’m willing to again. The interface is embarrasingly bad at times, but I’ve…
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Small Pieces
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Seems like all the cool kids are reading Small Pieces Loosely Joined. I’m already in the middle of three or four books so I won’t get to this anytime soon, but there’s a couple of chapters available online.
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Get Me Some dot com
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Over lunch L. and I invented a new web service, soon to become part of the LazyWeb. You insert a metatag into your page that indicates whether you have a partner or not. Our service aggregates this info, along with similar info of people, say, on your subway line, in your social network, your blogspace,…
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Mozilla Help to the Rescue
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Clicking a Link Most web pages contain links you can click to move to other pages. 1. Move the pointer until it changes to a pointing finger. This happens whenever the pointer is over a link. Most links are underlined text, but buttons and pictures can also be links. 2. Click the link once. While…
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Attention Amazon Shoppers…
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oh my, Amazon is trying their version of Blue Light Specials (communicating artificial exclusivity to generate demand). But just as with Kmart’s merchandise, it’s all crap. A George Foreman Rotisserie? Ugh.
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The Future of the Mobile Phone
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Nils Rydbeck, former Ericsson phone designer and inventor of GSM outlines four different scenarios for the future of the mobile phone: 1. The phone contains everything that you have at home in your computer. 2. The phone becomes an entertainment and gaming device for youth, possibly with a display showing the person you’re talking to.…
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BrainHeart
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http://www.brainheartmagazine.com/ Leave it to the Swedes to come up with a smart, sensible tech magazine that makes sense in 2002, an accomplished forty-something to Wired’s sniveling adolescence. It’s published by a venture capital firm in a socialist country. Unfortunately not all of the articles are online, like Diane Coyle’s wonderfully honest and passionate “The Promise…
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Current Mobile Platforms
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2 min read
I’m working on a project where I can influence the platform used, a rare opportunity. So I’ve been researching some of the current mobile platforms I didn’t know much about… Ultra-personal computers: OQO is working on a full-powered PC – including Wi-Fi – that will fit in your pocket. Also see IBM’s Meta Pad. Nice…
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Hoopla.com
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It’s odd that the week I decide to link to the wonderful writing of Hoopla.com is the week the domain is stolen. I tried writing a polite letter to NetSol notifying them I’d switch any domains I’d registered there to another registrar, but despite their feedback policy I didn’t receive a reply. Bastards.
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Powermate Volume Knob
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Last year I wished aloud for a hardware volume knob for my Mac. Griffin Tech has released what may be the coolest volume knob ever, essentially a function-assignable rotary USB controller. The Wired article has more. Links courtesy Jerry Kindall. Combining the Powermate’s software with the Oxygen 8‘s USB controls could result in a whole…
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Is this mike on?
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Testing, testing…great, this seems to work. As threatened, I’ve moved my blog from Blogger to Tinderbox. As a first step I’ve simply replicated all the current functionality, so you shouldn’t notice much difference. Links should open in new windows these days. Gradually I’ll be using all the goodies of Tinderbox to do fun new stuff…