Category: tech + the internet

“The MIT Media Lab has launched a new research initiative to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world’s children. To achieve this goal, a…

Testing out the new blog tracking software from Adaptive Path called Measuremap. I’ll post some thoughts and results oncce it has collected a weeks data. Looks nice and deceptively simple…

Well, seems this is the 200th post on this site since I’ve put wordpress to use. Amazing at what started as a simple test of WP for work ended up…

Have a Mac and + gmail account? “gDisk is a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible…

“Switch to Safe Launch The Quit Unexpectedly dialog box gives you the option of reopening an application that has just crashed. But if the application quits on you a second…

“It’s amazing that the Nano even made it to the stage. The story of the Nano started nine months ago, when Jobs and his team took a look at the…

SCIT (Screen Capture Image Type) 1.0 – Mac OS X “Use this app to change the image format for the screen capture function, (known types are: BMP, GIF, JPG, JP2,…

Nice Printable obituary style poster for the happy mac icon. http://www.guidebookgallery.org/extras/posters/pics/happymac“

“Don’t know about you, but I find browsing a list of album names somewhat uninspiring, to say the least. One of the big appeals of a physical album is the…

My Girlfriend shocked me with a present today. Absolutely blown away. She rules ! http://www.apple.com/ca/ipod/color

I don’t read nor speak Russian, but from the looks of this amazing keyboard i would guess it has small OLED screens under every key that can display the current…

If you use Del.icio.us – check this out (doesn’t run in Safari). “del.icio.us direc.tor is a prototype for an alternative web-based rich UI for del.icio.us. It leverages the XML and…

Gmail Widget “This is a very simple dashboard widget that displays the status of your Gmail account. As you can see it takes the form of a British postage stamp….

A great set of icons from the masters @ the iconfactory. http://www.iconfactory.com/preview.asp?type=show&id=243 (direct download link)

My Safari 2.0 RSS links seemed to have stopped updating – this general “delete prefs” fix worked. “So, sometime Friday, Safari RSS stopped working for me. I have no idea…