Category: tech + the internet

This product is finally out — the Trackstick II for 180$. It’s a small cheap GPS stick which can constantly track it’s location down to 15 meters anywhere in the…

Love this piece above called “Sale Study – A visual experiment with popular advertising catch-phrases.” Tim Lahan specializes in communication of the visual kind, with a heavy focus on typography…

One of my favorite new features of Leopard is the new professional voice they have included. “Alex”, is the new voice of Mac OS X. Before you read any further…

After many miserable failures with a number of brand-name wireless routers; I broke down and bought an Apple Airport Extreme N/Gigabit. Plank wireless runs off an Airport Extreme and we’ve…

I love Macs; I make my living with them and they’ve always done me well. It makes me happy to know that they will be around. I try to imagine…

Filigree is a very pretty screen-saver from OS X. It looks great in a dark room at night with the MacBook Pro backlit keyboard. “About Filigree: A screen saver that…

In case you missed this; Steven Colbert had a guest spot in the Op-Ed of the Sunday NYT’s. Well played. “Surprised to see my byline here, aren’t you? I would…

Design geeks unite.

I’m trying out this new font for work; Raph Levien has done an excellent job… It looks great onscreen while using BBedit and really shines when printing out “code” or…

If you need a phone from Fido, take a good look at the Nokia 6300. It’s thin, built solid and doesn’t feel plastic-y, the interface is fast, and it has…

Every morning I walk down to work along Bleury, past the *brand new* “Musique World” and I stare in it’s windows with amazement. It seems like a museum – a…

Ed has a very timely post about collecting magazines and the problem of them hanging around month after month. I have collected magazines to some degree or another since I…

For all us Wii/Nintendo nerds out there… The killer app for the Wii? You know it will never be as fun as you hope but… “… Wii remote lightsaber dueling….

This is very interesting. Apple has a new top-level directory where they are featuring highlighted ‘Web Apps’ that work well with the iphone/itouch. This plus the fact that there are…

Completely missed this. The lovely blog over at 70 Percent featured a link to “The making of my green fish” photoset. Thanks guys… just need some swell to get it…