How the world would be different if the remote had not been invented
“Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died.
Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device, died yesterday of heart failure at a Boise nursing […]
Skype is one of my favorite programs.. This is an interesting list of the ways you can improve your skype experience
“HACKING SKYPE: 25 TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR SKYPE EXPERIENCE
How versatile is your Skype? Ours can podcast, translate French, take conference calls from 15 people, and tutor calculus. Want to learn how to turn your Skype […]
The instant messaging client that I use on my mac has made version 1.
“With over 600 enhancements and bug fixes, Adium 1.0 is the culmination of over a year and a half of development. New features include a shiny new default appearance, an installation setup assistant, improved account management, privacy management, iTunes Now Playing status, […]
Techcrunch reports that Microsoft might beat google to the punch and release their online drive aptly called Microsoft Live Drive
“Microsoft is building an online storage service, code named Live Drive, says Ray Ozzie in an interview with Fortune:
Microsoft is planning to use its server farms to offer
anyone huge amounts of online storage of digital data. […]
Cybernet blog writes:
“Microsoft has put together a very informative movie on the new Office
2007 that is supposed to be released in January 2007. They have many
key points that they cover to help new users familiarize themselves
before even receiving the software. Some of these key points are the
Office Menu, the Ribbon, and the Contextual Tabs. The […]
Using the Google Calendar Data API
Google Calendar
allows client applications to view and update calendar events in the
form of Google data API (”GData”) feeds. Your client application can
use the Google Calendar data API to create new events, edit or delete
existing events, and query for events that match particular criteria.
There
are many possible uses for the Calendar […]
Buzz points out an interesting book for blackberry users -
“I’ve been busy for the last several months working on a book for O’Reilly Media called BlackBerry Hacks. It will be published in O’Reilly’s excellent Hacks Series.
I am quite happy with the way the book turned out. It certainly
exceeded my expectations going into it. The […]
downloadsquad point out the news that a task list is likely to be coming soon to google calendar.
Garett Rogers over at Googling Google discovered a few weeks ago that there is some dormant code in Google Calendar that appears to have only one possible use: completable events, otherwise known as tasks. For me, this is […]
Download squad has pointed out an interesting application for those of you who use Microsoft Outlook for your email. If I decide to move back to Outlook then I might give this application a try but for now I will stick with gmail.
“The last couple of days I’ve been testing a new, tiny application called […]
Chris Prillo has given a heads up to a ebook over the blog firefox facts.
“There are many different aspects to Mozilla’s Firefox, do you know about them all?
Firefox Facts is the definitive guide when it comes to using the world’s most famous alternative browser. Inside the pages of this eBook you will get tips and […]