Archive for April, 2008

links for 2008-04-30

The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment
Interesting Linux usability experiment. Love to see a Mac user on Windows or vise versa.
(tags: linux usability)

Supporting Innovators and Early Adopters: A Technology Adoption Program Cookbook
This IBM Redpaper provides a strategic overview of the IBM® Chief Information Officer’s Technology Adoption Program (TAP) within the IBM Corporation. We also provide a detailed description [...]

How To Rip High Quality MP3s

I have posted recently about the Media Server I have built. The server holds many hours of music ripped from CD. Call me old school but I would much rather buy CDs and rip them myself. The media provides a back up should everything go south. Also, I get the most accurate sound quality from [...]

links for 2008-04-29

The Twitter Blacklist
(tags: twitter)

How to Twitter an Event
(tags: twitter event)

Photoshop guru leaves Adobe for Microsoft
Mark Hamburg, a programmer who worked on Photoshop since version 2.0 and helped lead development of the newer Photoshop Lightroom, has left Adobe Systems for a new job at Microsoft.
(tags: photoshop microsoft adobe)

links for 2008-04-28

AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010
U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet’s current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010.
(tags: tcpip tcp internet at&t)

links for 2008-04-26

Poster for Dark Knight
Poster for the new Batman movie. Movie comes out July 18.
(tags: batman movie poster)

Toshiba Profits Plummet 95 Percent After HD DVD Exit
(tags: toshiba hddvd)

links for 2008-04-25

Nine must-have freeware apps rise to the top
(tags: freeware windows software)

Microsoft Live Mesh

Here is a video preview of the new Live Mesh:

Podcasting in Plain English

Another excellent video in the ‘in plain English’ series. This time, Common Craft shows us Podcasting in Plain English

links for 2008-04-22

HD enthusiasts crying foul over cable TV’s crunched signals
(tags: hdtv highdef high+definition)

Leveraging the Real Power of Social Networking
(tags: socialnetworking twitter social+networks)

Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops
Search for pro quality Free Sounds and Loops
(tags: sound audio samples loops)

Motivational Music (MP3s)
(tags: music mp3)

links for 2008-04-21

Clippl Peopl!
Clippl is the easiest way to send an instant multimedia message to your friends.
(tags: web2 social socialnetworking socialmedia)

Disneyland: Kids fly free again in 2008
Kids ages 2 to 11 can fly on Alaska Airlines free from major West Coast cities (within Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington) when they book a Southern California [...]