Archive for August, 2006
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Palm chooses September to announce new Treo:
One might argue we’ve collected enough intelligence at this point to make an official announcement ourselves, but according to a Reuters report, Palm has committed to unveiling at least one of its next-gen Treos for reals (without our help) next month. From the way Palm is talking, it sounds […]
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Control iTunes from within World of Warcraft:
Well here’s something I missed last week. This past Tuesday was “patch day” in the world of Warcraft. The latest patch, v. 1.12, brought several changes to the game, including the ability to control iTunes. From the Key Bindings preference window you can set up keys to control play, […]
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
Hawk Wings has pointed out an interesting comparison of Thunderbird and Mail.app
“Ashish Gulhati, CEO of email service provider Neomailbox , decided to dump Mail and give Thunderbird another try.
At first glance, he was impressed with the improvements since he last used it twelve months ago.
He even got inspired enough to list Thunderbird’s pros and […]
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
The new version of Evernote is out and if you are a windows user it would be well worth a look. Looks like some pretty handy additions to an already impressive program that helps you manage all those little pieces of information.
“New features of EverNote 1.5 include:
Synchronization of EverNote databases with USB flash drives and […]
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Darren over at Problogger points out a video showing a step by step instructions on how to set up a wordpress blog. Neat!
“1. Installing a free FTP program and connecting to your website
2. Creating a database for Wordpress.
3. Installing Wordpress.
4. Configuring Wordpress settings.
5. Setting up permalinks.
6. Writing and editing a post.
7. Uploading images.
8. Creating a […]
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Check out this list of 150 cool Microsoft downloads.
“Ex-Microsoftie Robert Scoble points us to this list of 150 “cool Microsoft downloads”. While some people might take issue with a few (okay, more than a few) of the selections on this list, it’s still a pretty impressive list. Consider that all of this software is generated […]
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
I didn’t know that this program had been updated and I had been frustrated it wasn’t working on my intel macbook. But, now it works perfectly. Very handy to be able to see when I need to do drain and reset my battery to get that oh so wonderful battery life.
“coconutBattery isn’t just a […]
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Many have tried to outdo Apple in the mp3 player business - none have so far succeeded.
“SanDisk Corp has introduced a new digital music player that stores twice as many songs as the popular iPod Nano for nearly the same price and cut the cost of existing models ahead of the holiday shopping season.
SanDisk, which […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
I have now stopped using microsoft word on my intel macbook. Junked it - it just runs way too slow. I have changed all the defaults to pages.
It will be interesting to see how I go with compatability with other word users and generally using pages as my main word processor.
If pages doesn’t work there […]
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