October 2007
49 posts
oalocke: Christ- How can it possibly be so hard to find a shop-vac nasal interface adapter in this digitally connected age. (via Twitter / oalocke)
oalocke: Perturbed by the fact that, these days, I seem to take better pictures with a crappy camera phone than I do with my $3000 digital SLR. (via Twitter / oalocke)
oalocke: Not wanting to affect the vibe of a scarf-wearin’ guy but wanting to wear a scarf because I’m freakin cold. Damn you, scarf-wearin’ guys. (via Twitter / oalocke)
Hulu Hands-On Review in One Word: Brilliant →
This morning, between fielding phone calls, answering emails and writing blog posts, I have been watching TV, a lot of TV…on Hulu, the new online video portal backed by NBC (GE), News Corp. (NWS) and $100 million in funding from Providence Equity Partners.
Before I go any further, a mea culpa: I mocked the service, and its backers, all through the summer. From the moment I learned about the new...
Hulu Hands-On Review in One Word: Brilliant →
This morning, between fielding phone calls, answering emails and writing blog posts, I have been watching TV, a lot of TV…on Hulu, the new online video portal backed by NBC (GE), News Corp. (NWS) and $100 million in funding from Providence Equity Partners.
Before I go any further, a mea culpa: I mocked the service, and its backers, all through the summer. From the moment I learned about the new...
Rebuild Your Mac with 20 Useful Downloads [Mac OS... →
Mac OS X only: So you erased your hard drive to install Leopard, and now you’ve got to load your Mac up with all your essential software. I kept a detailed inventory of the downloads I hunted down all over the internet to load on my Mac this weekend, so I thought I’d save you a few clicks. Here’s a list of 20 (mostly) free apps with direct links to their download pages.
All...
13 future mobile technologies that will change... →
Back Up Your Boot Camp Partition with Winclone... →
Mac OS X only: Afraid of screwing up your Boot Camp partition when you upgrade to Leopard? Free application WinClone images your Windows Boot Camp partition for easy restoration to the same or another partition, just in case. The Leopard upgrade shouldn’t disturb your Boot Camp setup, but a backup image is nice insurance, especially if you want to resize the partitions on your...
Lighting automation for the home, done easy →
Filed under: electrical, lighting
If you’d like to partially re-create the home of Microsoft founder Bill Gates but you lack a couple a’ billion in Benjamins, you can at least get close using easy-to-install home automation equipment. I’ve used X10 products for close to a decade now and almost every detached light in my home is controlled by a few remotes that are strategically...
oalocke: Valleywag recommends reading msnbc and fimoc in the same post. Suspecting Rex and sexual favors (via Twitter / oalocke)
AP Board Approves New Pricing Structure; Pay As... →
The Associated Press’ board has approved a major overhaul of the way it prices and packages news for its member U.S. newspapers, and represents the most comprehensive change in the way AP content is sold throughout its history, it said. The changes will start from Jan 1, 2009.
As AP’s own story explains it, instead of offering news feeds and charging by volume of news delivered, the...
Microcontroller link for under $20 →
A follow up from James, he writes in -
Thank you for putting up the link to the PC controller article. I’ve published part two now, which is to link two microcontrollers with each other using the internet for under $20. It has been a work in progress for the last few months and actually started with a question someone posted on the Make forum where they wanted to control their home...
oalocke: Uncovered a secret, early-morning doggy social net on our road. At least 9 dogs, 4 houses involved, including 3 of ours. More details soon. (via Twitter / oalocke)
Electronics video tutorial →
oalocke: Finding your 18mo-old w/ a Sharpie is only slightly less alarming than finding her wearing a bomb vest. (via Twitter / oalocke)
oalocke: You should always make lots of noise walking in the woods in grizzly country to give cougars plenty of time to set up their ambush. (via Twitter / oalocke)
oalocke: Did a half-marathon this morning. In the truck. To the doughnut shop. (via Twitter / oalocke)
oalocke: The mouse on my mac at home has buttons to turn the tracking speed up and down. Toddlers like buttons… (via Twitter / oalocke)
Geek To Live: The Complete Guide to Mac/Windows... →
You’ve got a household full of PC’s and you’ve stopped yourself from getting a Mac because you don’t want to deal with incompatibility headaches. Eight years ago that would’ve been understandable, but today Mac OS and Windows can work together in harmony on the same home network, sharing files and printers, mounting one another’s drives and using the same...
Strange Bedfellows - I have been asleep,... →
Strange Bedfellows — I have been asleep, apparently, at the big switch. This is according to former Harvard Business Review editor (and technology pundit in his own right) Nicholas Carr, who said as much this week in his very nice blog, Rough Type (look to your right, it’s in the links).
Source: I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS
Link: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007…
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Veeker Raises Funding, Cuts Deal with NBC →
Veeker, a mobile video and picture messaging startup, is climbing back into the game with a revamped product and fresh customers. The company aims to make it easy for you to show your friends and family what you’re doing from wherever you and your cameraphone happen to be.
San Francisco-based Veeker, which launched about a year ago, raised a Series A round from Labrador Ventures earlier this...
Veeker Raises Funding, Cuts Deal with NBC →
Veeker, a mobile video and picture messaging startup, is climbing back into the game with a revamped product and fresh customers. The company aims to make it easy for you to show your friends and family what you’re doing from wherever you and your cameraphone happen to be.
San Francisco-based Veeker, which launched about a year ago, raised a Series A round from Labrador Ventures earlier this...
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Google, Apple... →
oalocke: It’s 35 and raining, I’ve got a cold, a massive windstorm is on its way and I’m still seriously considering playing hooky to go to the w … (via Twitter / oalocke)
oalocke: ATT is billing me for 2 separate family plans. If they can’t fix it, I will, unfortunately, have to become a polygamist. (via Twitter / oalocke)
Microsoft Partners with Atlassian & NewsGator... →
Microsoft Partners with Atlassian & NewsGator - SharePoint Goes Web 2.0 — Today Microsoft is announcing two strategic partnerships, with enterprise software company Atlassian and RSS solutions vendor NewsGator. The partnerships link togther Microsoft’s SharePoint product …
Source: Read/WriteWeb
Author: Richard MacManus
Link: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…
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CNN's Politics Push →
…I’ve just returned from CNN’s America Votes 2008 upfront held in midtown Manhattan. I’ll have more later. Of note, Campbell…
Hack Attack: The Power Traveler's Checklist, Part... →
The holiday travel season is just around the bend, meaning if you’re planning to fly the friendly skies this Thanksgiving or Chrismukkah, you’ve either already bought your tickets or you’re about to. But instead of following the time-honored holiday tradition of spending an arm and a leg on pricey tickets or frantically running through the airline terminal to catch your flight...
oalocke: Dear army of city-dwellers invading our little town: go home and buy your pumpkins at the grocery store. Thanks (via Twitter / oalocke)
oalocke: Grouse hunt this a.m., installed RAM in the Vista box this afternoon. Thinking I might be in need of some life focus. (via Twitter / oalocke)
iWPhone: WordPress plugin renders for iPhone →
Filed under: iPod Family, Cool tools, Blogging, Internet, Internet Tools, Blogs, iPhoneI run my personal site using WordPress, and one reason I like using it so much is that (although this is hardly exclusive to WordPress as a content manager) is all the great plugins available for it. On another site I ran under WordPress, I loved using the WP-Print plugin— it automatically creates a...
Interview: Merrill Brown, Chairman, NowPublic:... →
The question of whether citizen journalism can exist within the context of a business organization - and still maintain its values - was a major focus of this past week’s Networked Journalism Summit, which was organized by Jeff Jarvis with CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. One of the summit’s speakers, Merrill Brown, a New York-based media consultant and chairman of citizen...
Online Video: What ABC News can learn from YouTube →
“ABC is the only major broadcast network that is using the staff of its evening newscast to produce a separate and distinct daily program for a Web audience,” a New York Times feature reports today. Among the differences from the broadcast show: More casual correspondents, plus longer back-and-forths between anchor and reporter that would be cut to seven seconds on cable. But...
Yahoo Newspaper Consortium: Harmful Or Helpful? →
Instead of offering a helping hand to newspapers suffering from declining readership and ad revenues, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium could extract still more pain from its members, or so a largely negative article by Reuters suggests. The article follows several reports including Deutsche Bank’s relatively sunny view last month that the consortium’s 19 newspaper...
And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Madonna Dumps... →
More dominoes falling
Whoa There: Video Views to Pass Searches? →
There were 16 billion online searches performed in North America in August, 9.8 billion of them by U.S. users on core search engine sites like Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO). When numbers float up into the billions, it can be hard to ground them in apt comparisons — but try this one for size: There were 9.1 billion video views in July, up from 8.4 billion in May and 7 billion in March, notes Tod...
The 3G Ipod Touch and 3G iPhone →
I am a freak with both an iPhone and a WM device. Sue me for wanting them to talk….
Yahoo: Will botched newspaper deal lead to Sue... →
Yahoo executives keep touting the company’s deal with a “consortium” of newspapers. But from what we hear from insiders, the “consortium” is just a bunch of paper, with no real technology designed to power Yahoo president Sue Decker’s grand vision. Newspaper partners are growing increasingly skeptical that Yahoo will ever deliver. No wonder doubts are growing...
oalocke: I had a dream last night in which I made Hillary Clinton cry by recounting a real-life conversation I had with Chris Matthews about her. hmm (via Twitter / oalocke)
Flickr: The MAKE Pool →
Facebook: Best Facebook feature ever! →
iPodia: on and offline Wikipedia for your iPhone,... →
Steve Rubel shares a great link today: this one is for iPodia, a Mobile Safari friendly front end to Wikipedia. iPodia claims to be for the iPod Touch, but since the browsers and screen resolutions are the same between the Touch and iPhone, I tried it with expected success on my iPhone.
While online you can browse through the Wikipedia and there’s a great text search feature in iPodia to...
oalocke: All alone for 2 hours- madly reading 2 books and simultaneously playing Bioshock. (via Twitter / oalocke)
Featured Windows Download: Stream XviD and DivX to... →
Windows only: Windows Media Center can play back virtually any video file you’ve installed a codec for, but if you’re rocking a Windows Media Center extender—like your Xbox 360, for example—you can only play back a few supported Windows Media video types by default. Freeware application Transcode 360 runs on your Media Center computer and transcodes and streams movies encoded in the...
Fimoculous.com - Why We Bought Newsvine →
Darwin is alive and well
Man jailed after trying to pass $1 million bill
Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs.... →
Yahoo’s music honcho on the death of DRM
oalocke: Attempting to pacify the spawn: Copeland, Vivaldi, Barber all shot down in flames. Don’t make me call in Aretha, kid. (via Twitter / oalocke)