Use del.icio.us for random audio content
If you want to have random audio content downloaded to your comuter, use your favorite podcast receiver or iTunes and subscribe to the most popular mp3 files linked on del.icio.us feed. If you would rather check out the content and download them as you want, go to http://del.icio.us/popular/system:filetype:mp3.
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FeedTier - creating RSS feeds for pages without them
If you ever go to a web page that you wish had an RSS feed, giveFeedTier a try. With this service you paste the URL for your page in question into a form an click the Preview button. If a few seconds you will get a sample of what the feed will look like and an orange RSS button you can use to subscribe to the feed.
FeedTier is still in experimental beta testing but definately worth a try.
Cross posted from Tipmonkies.com
Links for 2005-10-31 [del.icio.us]
Links for 2005-10-30 [del.icio.us]
Blog Site Redesign
I've just uploaded some template changes to my blog. The changes are mostly to the sidebar and a new "Save to del.icio.us" link for each article. Here are the details about the changes.
Sidebar:
I really didn't like the way the sidebar was getting longer and longer and I still wanted to add some content to it. I found some great code over on DynamicDrive for menus that drop down when the headers are clicked. I then made some CSS modifications so the 'Subscribe' header is orange in keeping with the general web theme for RSS links.
Categories:
Unfortunately, Blogger doesn't provide us with categories. I've always wanted that feature and now that they have the new BlogSearch feature I was able to create pseudo-categories. Since I tag my blog posts I just created a list of categories I use often and built search URLs around them that look like: http://search.blogger.com/?ui=blg&q=site%3Atechlifeblogged.blogspot.com+
tag%5CGoogle&scoring=d
tag%5CGoogle&scoring=d
The URL feeds the search engine my site:techlifeblogged.blogspot.com name and then tag\NameOfTag (in this example, Google). The scoring=d bit returns the results by date. Harder to say than to do actually. In that example, anytime I use a Technorati tag for Google that article will become part of the result set. Only slight downside here is that I'll have to edit my template to include a new category but I generally post about the same things and site search can handle the occasional other posting.
Popular Posts:
Sometimes I write a longer article or how-tos that I might want people to see again when they stop by my site. Again, native Blogger doesn't really have a method for doing this. I could edit the template but thats just too much of a pain for something like this. RSS mashups to my rescue once again.
What I do now is post a link to the article in del.icio.us and tag it 'mypop'. The tag name doesn't matter as long as you are consistent. I chose a tag name that wasn't something I'd use in ordinary tagging so that I had to be deliberate that I wanted the article to show up in the RSS feed for that tag.
Next, I found the del.icio.us RSS feed for my tag and then went to the awesome service FeedJumbler to create a little javascript that I could put into my template. With some added switches the code feeds just the titles of my links from del.icio.us. You'll find the output under the new 'Popular' section in the sidebar.
Technorati Tags : blogger, blogging, google, search, feedjumbler, blogsearch, technorati, dynamicdrive
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Links for 2005-10-29 [del.icio.us]
Scoble: The Internet can be a mob at times
Bloggers are pissed at Forbes for what they sayin an article on blogging. I like what Robert Scoble has tosay on it.
Scoble: The Internet can be a mob at times and often the stuff you read is just plain ridiculous. But, the way to answer the ridiculousness isn’t to throw bombs into the mix. It’s to get involved and participate in the conversation.
Via: Memeorandum
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Links for 2005-10-27 [del.icio.us]
- Podcaster News Network
Changing the way you get news. - Enable Cookies in Firefox
Nice little guide from Firefox Tutor
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Top Photos From Space Station
National Geographic has new NASA photos from the recent trip to the International Space Station. Some really great shots including a panorama of the Himalaya and a space-based postcard of Central Park.
Technorati Tags : Nasa, National+Geographic
What's base.google?
The blogosphere is abuzz rumors about base.google.com. A few screenshots available but not many details yet. The curious bit is that, as of this writing there are 68 links to that URL according to Google blog search for links to base.google.com
Update: SeachEngineWatch has good details.
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iZoofari Audio Tours
The San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park now have podcasts! Their idea is that you can create a customized audio tour (a.k.a. soundseeing) for yourself to bring along on your next visit.
How cool is that?! Wouldn't it be cool if all kinds of places like museums and zoos and other places where you just stroll through had downloadable audio tours? It would also be cool if there was a way to let them know you had made a quality soundseeing tour of their facilities and they could mix in your content once they've assured it's quality matched their image. The rise of the visitor-cast!
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Odeo create tools now available
Odeo announced tonight that the create tools are now available if you were a member before today (10/24/05).
You can listen to the announcement here: Message from Biz and Ev
Sure enough when I logged in the create button was active. I'll have to give it a try.
Technorati Tags : Odeo, Podcasting
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Links for 2005-10-24 [del.icio.us]
- Playing videos on a non-video iPod
You need to load Linux on your old iPod but it can be done.
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Archaeologists find the Flintstones
Ok, not really but....
National Geographic: Archaeologists say they have unearthed one of the largest collections of Stone Age skeletons and artifacts ever found in the Sahara.
Wonder if they found Fred and Barney?
Technorati Tags : national+geographis, archaeology
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Firefox One launches this Saturday
A weather balloon dubbed Firefox One in honor ofthe 100M downloads of the open source browser will go 19 miles up carryinga Firefox banner, Firefox CD and a camera. Cool! Hope they post some pictures!
Via Mozillazine
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Links for 2005-10-19 [del.icio.us]
- Ten RSS Hacks
Lots of stuff here that you might not have thought of. Cool. - Concentrating while studying
Useful tips that go beyond studying.
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Developers: Want to work on a podcasting client?
If you are a developer, into Podcasting, with C# and .NET experience, Doppler Radio, one of the best pod-catching clients, is looking for you. Doesn't pay but hey, it could be cool.
From the beta blog Erwin writes:
in order to get development levels up to speed again we decided to go and look out for a fellow developer. If you're interested, and have the time, check out the post on our website: www.dopplerradio.net
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Links for 2005-10-18 [del.icio.us]
- Hotspot Finder - Wi-Fi Hotspots
USA today teamed up with jiwire to help you find hot spots. You can specify free, pay or both - MSN Money - 10 ways to stop identity theft cold
Read it. Then go buy a shredder. - IRC Hacks
100 Hacks for you IRCers out there - Blogger Hacks - The Series - Freshblog
Brilliant Blogger hacks
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Two Free eBooks From Microsoft
eWeek: Inside the latest Windows Vista build
eWeek: Inside the latest Windows Vista Build
Microsoft has just released a Vista update called the "October
Community Technology Preview." That's a pretty highfalutin'
name for what's essentially just an alpha update. But, in
fact, there's a lot of new stuff, including several Internet
Explorer features and updates to Windows Media Player 11.
We've taken a close, close look at this new build and have
put together a package of stories, screen shots and much more.
If you want to know more about the new "Restart Manager,"
new diagnostics and the new Digital Gallery, check out our
package. Plus, our Microsoft Watcher takes a close look at
what's in there and what isn't--and what that means.
Links for 2005-10-17 [del.icio.us]
- Google Hacks
List of 100 ways to hack google - ONLamp.com: What Is Ruby on Rails
Extensive O'Reilly article on Ruby - Speed Reading Test Online
Handy test for figuring out how fast you read. With information overload I think we can all improve. - DualBoot Knoppix with Loadlin 1.6c
Putting Knoppix Live CD on the hard disk - Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I
From 43 Folders. Part 1 of 2 - Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part II
From 43 Folders. Part 2 of 2 - Download Time Calculator
Set megabytes, connection speed, compute.
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Links for 2005-10-16 [del.icio.us]
- FairUse Wizard - Easy DVD to DivX, XviD, H264, VP7 and ffVFW backup
Haven't tried it. Stumbled across the link while researching the new video iPod
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Picasa 2.1 is out
Picasa 2.1 is out. If this was announced I missed it. The readme page says it was released September 19. When I launched Picasa last night it tried to update and couldn't so I just downloaded it again. Only 4MB so no big deal. If you don't use Picasa you definitely should give it a try. I makes organizing your photos so much easier.
Not a lot was changed. Probably the most significant one for me was being able to post to Blogger and not have to have the Hello client as well. The external drive feature will be a bonus for people with USB external drives.
I think you folks with higher end cameras will appreciate the new RAW format handling.
Here are some details from the readme:
Multiple interface languages– Picasa is now available in Chinese (simplified and traditional), Dutch, English (U.S. and UK) , French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. When you start Picasa, the software will automatically match your system's native language. To change the language in Picasa, go to Tools > Options. Change the language using the pulldown menu on the "General" tab. You will need to close and re-open Picasa to see your changes take effect.
BlogThis!- Post a photo to your blog in one click. Picasa's new "BlogThis!" button replaces the "Blogger" button and allows you to upload your photos directly to the Blogger web editor, without the need for a Hello account. To use, select a photo in Picasa and click the "BlogThis!" button. (If you do not have a Blogger.com account, follow the steps on-screen to create one.) When you are signed in to Blogger, the web editor will open. Click "Publish" to post your photo to your blog.
Print CD covers– Turn any photo into cover art. Click the "Print" button. Go to Tools > Options > Printing. Select "CD Cover Size" and apply. "CD Cover Size" is now one of the print layout choices.
Improved RAW handling– Picasa supports more RAW formats and cameras in this release, with improved color-balance support and faster speed. Work with your highest quality files from these camera manufacturers: Canon (.CRW, .CR2), Nikon (.NEF), Olympus (.ORF), Pentax (.PEF), Kodak (.DCR), Sony (.SRF), Minolta (.MRW), and Fuji(.RAF). New models supported include the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT (aka the 350D), Pentax *istDS, Konica/Minolta Maxxum7D (aka the Dynax 7D).
External drives- Find photos on external drives using Picasa. Simply go Tools > Folder Manager to choose whether Picasa should scan a connected external drive to find pictures. When you unplug and reconnect, Picasa will find your pictures instantly (with no scanning), and will also preserve your labels
Technorati Tags : picasa, photography, google
How I Create those Del.icio.us link posts
Down yonder in one of the del.icio.us link posts Randy asked how I set up those postings. I thought I'd blog the process if anyone is curious.
I created an RSS feed on a server. There isn't anything in it so it doesn't change. The goal was a feed that didn't change because all I was after was the daily del.icio.us summary.
Next, I created a Feedburner feed for that RSS file and used their Link Splicer tool to include a daily summary of my del.icio.us account.
Then I used R|Mail to subscribe to the feed and have it sent to my GMail account where I have a filter to send it to Bloggers mail in tool.
I suppose the GMail to Blogger isn't necessary as I could have R|Mail deliver to Blogger but I wanted to be able to stop the feed quickly to my blog if I made changes to my Feedburner feed. I've done that in the past and it seems that Feedburner will sometimes repost all the del.icio.us feeds if you edit the Feedburner feed at all. This way I just turn off the forwarding filter and can make all the adjustments I need without having to monkey with the R|Mail subscription or my Blogger template settings.
I have it sending all my posts from del.icio.us but I've thought about having it send just certain ones that I tag 'pub' or 'publish' or something like that. Haven't decided yet but it would be a nice way to keep using del.icio.us for all kinds of things and only have it feed my blog on items I think are blog worthy.
Why not just use the link splicer into my blog's current Feedburner feed? Because it only hits a part of my audience, the subscribers. While I'm a huge proponent of RSS the sad fact is that not many people are hip to it yet. This way both sets get it.
Technorati Tags : rss, blog, blogging, del.icio.us
Links for 2005-10-15 [del.icio.us]
- Automatic Windows Cleanup
Nice tips for using and automating the Clean Up utility built into XP - Scobleizer » The race to time-based and blog search
Interesting article about search.
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Links for 2005-10-14 [del.icio.us]
- When using someone’s info, link back
nuff said - TipMonkies » Sending voice e-mails made easy
Tips for sending voice e-mails. Includes links to free services
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More on free software from Microsoft
In the comments of my recentarticle about free Microsoft software for attending an event, Blake Handler posts links to his blog where he lists many freebies from Microsoft. He lists lots of utilities as well as things like themes. Go check them out.
Thanks Blake!
Tech.Memorandum: A good thing?
There has been some discussion on TechCrunch and the RSS Blog as well as elsewhere about the value and importance of Tech.Memorandum.
I like the site because, in addition to the hot topic issues, you find others that aren't as linked to but provide insite to the long tail. I do think it raises some interesting questions. Is it causing people to blog about things they weren't blogging about before? Perhaps. I think people not as dialed in or further from the source of press releases, insider info and things like that may find a hot topic on memorandum and decide they should blog about it as well. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but it would be good for these bloggers (I include myself as I rethink these things) to bring something new, be it a different opinion or an insite that others haven't grasped yet, to the conversation. Additionally, those long tail topics are a good source of material because they are the ones that aren't linked to as much so the whole blogosphere isn't talking about them so your content isn't as diluted.
What I'm wondering is, should you link and blog about hot topic items on memorandum no matter what? If you don't, is your blog going to disappear into obscurity? It shouldn't if you have content people want to read but if the world goes to memorandum they may never find you if you don't link to hot topics. So, as such, is linking to hot topics that appear on memorandum a form of SEO? You bet. But you'd better have content for them to read when they get to you or they won't subscribe.
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Google Adsense Notifier
RealTechNews has a link to a new Firefox extension called Google Adsense Notifier. It sits in the corner of your browser and tells you about your current Adsense earnings. I guess it could be cool if you have to know all the time what your earnings are. If you get a click every month or so it could get pretty annoying. :o)
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Power User's Guide to Firefox
MacWorld published aPower User's Guide to Firefox. It has lots of good tips. Not many that you won't find on myFirefox Help, Tips and Tricks page but there are a couple of Mac-centric tips.
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Mars probe finds life on earth
New Scientist: "Instruments designed to look for life on Mars have found rare microbes in an Arctic volcano"
Cool.
Technorati Tags : Mars, Spitsbergen
Links for 2005-10-13 [del.icio.us]
- 23 Ways to Speed Up Windows XP
Nothing really new if you're an old hand techie with Windows XP but worth a quick scan. Nicely gathered tips if you're a newbie.
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Lots of Goodness from Apple today
Gizomdo has areview of the new video iPod.
Engadget covers all of today's announcements from Apple.
Specs: Same width and height as current model, but thinner. QVGA (324 x 240) pixel 260,000 color 2.5-inch display. h.264 and MPEG-4 at 30 fps. TV out. 30GB and 60GB models. Same width and height. 30GB is 31% thinner than the curent 20GB model [Making it 0.44-inches thick—say wha?]. 60G is 12% thinner than 20GB. 30G up to 75 hours of video, $299. 60G up to 150 hours video, $399. Shipping in one week.
Jobs said Apple has 75% market share of MP3 devices. Astounding. TV out sounds like a cool feature.
Remember the Milk
Remember the Milk is a new online to-do list manager. The feature list is pretty extensive and includes some nifty features like reminding you of tasks via email, SMS or instant messenger. Also you can share your tasks with others, subscribe to the tasks via Atom, publish to private groups or the world.
It's free in beta now. Give it a go.
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Blogging Freedom: Qumana 2.0 is here
I've been using Qumana for blogging for a few months now. I guess since about August when it was first released. Today they released version 2.0. The new features include:
- Post-centric ad insertion
- Post to email
- New graphics
- Better blog platform support
Qumana is an excellent tool to use if you don't want to monkey around with HTML. Sure, if you use Blogger it isn't too hard to make a new post but Qumana goes a step better. It provides a 'drop pad' that lets you drag content and from the web or your email even other text editors and then build your posts. I use it all the time if I want to do a quote from another blog or simply copy a URL from by browser's address bar. Couldn't get much easier.
Now in version 2 you can put ads right in your posts via their new AdGenta network. The ads are keyword based so you set the keyword on a post by post basis. Adsense is great but it uses the whole page to come up with a context with which to display a hopefully relevant ad. I've signed up to test it out. Not sure I'll put ads in everything but if I want to I have the power to with just a few clicks.
One of the cool features about Qumana is the ability to post to several places if you run more than one blog. All you do is change the drop down list to one of your other configured blogs, make any changes to your text if you want and click Post. No retyping. No going into an entirely different tool. Post to Blogger then post to Word Press for example. Just a click away. And now, version 2 also includes 'Post to Email'. So you can send your post via email as well.
Go give it a try. Not much to lose with a free download.
Technorati Tags : Qumana, Blogging, Blog
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Yahoo And MSN team up on IM
MSN Messanger and Yahoo! Messenger teaming up. Wow. Still, why can't we just create a client agnostic standard and compete on features like email?
[via: InsideMicrosoft]
Links for 2005-10-11 [del.icio.us]
- Introduction to robotics technology
From 2001. Intro to robotics from an open source perspective
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Links for 2005-10-10 [del.icio.us]
- Yahoo! Launches Podcasting with Yahoo! Podcasts
Podtech mp3 of the announcement - Backyard Imagineering
Disney-like effects you can build for your back yard. - Quick Online Tips: Complete Digg Tools Collection
Links to all kinds of tools for use with the Digg - Linux is Not Windows
A good read.
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Recipe for perfect sandcastles
Recipe for perfect sandcastle - Yahoo! News : use eight parts sand to one part water.
Want some free Microsoft software?
Ok, not completely free...you have to sit through a launch event. If you are a developer and fortunate enough to have an event in your area it might be worth it.
http://www.msdnevents.com/launch/
Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition for attending.
Technorati Tags : Microsoft, Visual+Studio, SQL+Server
Backlinks for Blogger
Blogger now has back links. Not really trackback per se. Rather links to post that link to your blog using the magic of Javascript and Blogger's new blog search feature.
via: RSS Blog
Read more on:Blogger Buzz and also a nice how to onDigital Instarations page. Note, however, that if you've hacked your template like I have where you've modified the header not to use Bloggers standard meta tag header, you won't automatically get the Javascript necessary to run this new feature. If that's your case, the easiest was to do it is, copy HTML from the template that you use, go back to a standard template and view the resulting HTML source. You'll find the lines of Javascript you need somewhere near the top after the META tags. Copy the HTML out and put it into the text of your real template, add the bits about the new backlink feature and you'll be good to go. Not really much detail but if you hacked your template up that bad you sould be able to figure it out anyway.
Links for 2005-10-08 [del.icio.us]
- The Unofficial At0mic Beginner’s Overclocking Guide - CPUs, Overclocking and Cooling - Forums - www.atomicmpc.com.au
Tips and tricks for overclocking
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Making Screenshots of your BIOS
I wanted to save my BIOS settings from my new motherboard but I couldn't take a screenshot. Yeah, I could have written everything down but there are 12 screens with lots of details and it's a pain.Enter my trusty digital camera. I have a Canon A75
. My set up was quick:tripod, the camera set to the action setting for a quick shutter speed, flash off and I also used the auto timer so I didn't get camera shake with my hand.
I'm really happy with the results. The shots are all legible but not completely crisp. Probably the results of a CRT monitor with scan lines. Still, I didn't have to hand write or type it all out!
GreatNews v. Google Reader
I've spent a bit of time with Google's new RSS reader. It didn't take me long to discover I don't like it. To be fair, it is still in beta.
Below you'll find screenshots of GreatNews (my review here) and the Google Reader. I use GreatNews all the time as I've blogged about before. Why? Because as you'll see by the shots, it has a newspaper style interface so I can click on a feed and see quickly what I want read and get the whole text of the feed (unless they don't provide it. Moot point since I unsub from non-full feeds anyway). Plus, it syncs with Bloglines.
Google Reader makes you click on a story header and then read. To much clicking and waiting in my opinion. And if you have a long story, you have to scroll and that scrolls the whole screen so you have to scroll back to then click on the next story or feed. Ugh. Also, it's just fat. Wasted screen space.
Inside Google did a quick review of Google Reader as well.
GreatNews Screen shot:
Google Reader
Below you'll find screenshots of GreatNews (my review here) and the Google Reader. I use GreatNews all the time as I've blogged about before. Why? Because as you'll see by the shots, it has a newspaper style interface so I can click on a feed and see quickly what I want read and get the whole text of the feed (unless they don't provide it. Moot point since I unsub from non-full feeds anyway). Plus, it syncs with Bloglines.
Google Reader makes you click on a story header and then read. To much clicking and waiting in my opinion. And if you have a long story, you have to scroll and that scrolls the whole screen so you have to scroll back to then click on the next story or feed. Ugh. Also, it's just fat. Wasted screen space.
Inside Google did a quick review of Google Reader as well.
GreatNews Screen shot:
Google Reader
Google working on facial pattern recogniton
SearchBlog: "Google also announced its work on determining sex of a person using pattern recognition in photos. This is a first step toward ID'ing faces, then searching by face. "
Technorati Tags : google, pattern+recognition
Google's new RSS Reader!
Google now has an RSS Reader! I'm checking it out.
Still in Google Labs. Follow the story via Tech.Memorandum
more to follow I'm sure...
update: Uploading my OPML list of feeds is seriously painful. I'm sure it has to do with the whole world spending their Friday afternoon exploring a new tool :o)
In the mean time, take the tour: http://www.google.com/reader/things/tour
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Released - MozillaZine
I mentioned the other day that the release candidate for Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 was out. Mozillazine announced this morning that Beta 2 is now released.
"This release does not contain any major new features since Beta 1. Improvements to automated update system, Web site rendering and performance, along with several security fixes are included in this release"
If you are a current beta tester:
Emergency Scrabble Game
Download this pdf, print it and put it in the back of your notebook for the next time you are stuck in an airport or something. Genius!
New Firefox 1.5 release candidate beta 2
For those of you on the bleeding edge there is a new release candidate of Firefox 1.5 Beta 2. Hopefully this fixes the random crashing I was having. The rest of you stick with 1.0.7 until things get ironed out.
Doing disaster IT with LiveCDs
Download, burn, and boot doing disaster IT with a Shelter Lab LiveCD Build (SLLB) is a really interesting article that covers an attempt to use liveCDs (both Linux and Windows) at emergency shelters in the wake of Katrina. The article covers the challenges involved with hardware and software as well as some basic standards problems. FEMA's IE only web site being a major problem that they had to deal with and in some cases made a Linux distro a problem to use.
I like the idea of a LiveCD to have in your emergency bag of tricks. With liveCD's you could grab what ever hardware you could find and, provided the infrastructure was there with regards to AC and 'Net access, set up common computers in a make shift lab. Everything would be instantly the same at least as far as the UI. Great for kiosks.
Linux distros are the best at this. I've only experimented with Knoppix but I am always astounded when I pop the disc in, reboot and have sound, internet and all sorts of software ready to go. Plus there aren't the licensing issues you have with Windows.
Searchblog on the Google/Sun deal
John Battelle says the deal is all about the toolbar.
John Battelle's Searchblog: "I had been wondering how Toolbar downloads were going, given how important they are to Google's future (it's where all the marbles are, really, having a direct relationship with a person, a search history, a preferences set, you name it). The Toolbar, in the end, is how Google pushes out Microsoft. "
He points to a Bloomberg article: "Google could add ``tens of millions'' of customers through Sun's downloads, Schmidt said."
Interestingly, I do like the Google Toolbar but I've switched away from the native Google one back to the open source googlebar for Firefox. Why? Well, for one, I like it better because you can have it log into your Google account to make GMail and other things more seamless. It doesn't have pagerank but I've never really given much though to those numbers anyway. Also, I was able to get it to work with Firefox 1.5 beta since the native Google Toolbar doesn't work yet.
Technorati Tags : google, sun+microsystems
Microsoft article about Podcasting
msmobiles.com has a link to a Microsoft article getting started with Podcasting. They also have a list of podcasts related to Windows Mobile.
Mozilla Launches Beta of Comprehensive Online Developer Center
Press Release:"Mozilla Corp., the developer of the popular Firefox Web browser, welcomes Web developers to the public beta of the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC)"
Tutorials, articles, references, blogs and RSS feeds. Interesting. Check out MDC.
Today's Google/Sun non-announcement
Great hilarity in the blogosphere about today's Google/Sun non-announcement. Seems like a whole lot a hype over nothing. So do I get the Google bar when I install JRE? Or is it the other way around? Hmmm.
Technorati Tags : Google, Sun+Microsystems
Yahoo's new mail client and my wish list
Ken Burton has a nice preview of the new Yahoo! mail. His review includes a few screen shots of the 3 pane interface. In a nutshell, he likes it and is telling Google to 'watch their backs'. Competition is always a good thing.
Personally, I'm going to stick with GMail for now. I'm just not in the mind at the moment to go testing a new email client.
If the world asked me, here is what I'd like:
1. I'm not a huge IM user but lets come up with a client agnostic standard for IM. Use XMPP and be done with it.
2. On-line presence in my email client. If we have #1 then I can log in the my web based email, see a message from someone and know instantly if they are on line. It might just be easier to pop open my chat window and interact quickly and be done rather than the tedious tag-your-it form of email. This would be perfect for those times when all you want to say is just a simple "I'm at my desk, call me" chat transaction.
3. Let me use my web based email as my client for any POP enabled mail service. My ISP has POP but not a web based client. Let me use GMail (or whatever).
What are you looking for in a web base email client?
Sun Microsystems and Google doing a webcast tomorrow (10/4)
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
10:30 a.m. PT/1:30 p.m. ET
"Please join Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO and Dr.
Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO as they
discuss a new collaborative effort between the two companies."
Let's see what they're up to.
Technorati Tags : Sun+Microsystems, Google
PDF Support in Office 12
This could be a development worth watching from a licensing standpoint. Looks like they are going to have 'save to PDF' function not sure about annotations. Due to ship in the late '06 (of course we all know how MS is with their time lines).
eWeek: Microsoft to Build PDF Support into Office 12
The software kingpin also is releasing pre-Beta 1 Office 12
bits to some of its Most Valuable Professionals. Get the
details from Microsoft Watch.
http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-2607-2-79-2596-296994-0-0-0-1< /A>
eWeek: Microsoft to Build PDF Support into Office 12
The software kingpin also is releasing pre-Beta 1 Office 12
bits to some of its Most Valuable Professionals. Get the
details from Microsoft Watch.
http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-2607-2-79-2596-296994-0-0-0-1< /A>
MLB Postseason Schedule
Here's the MLB post season TV Schedule. Really sucks that they are
having games during the workday.
Damn Comment Spam
Woke up this morning to comments spam. Does that mean my blog is more popular or that it is getting indexed more? My guess is the latter. Especially now that Feedburner is pinging.
Turned on Bloggers word verification so I guess we'll be testing that in real time.