This camera is awesome. For $800, it’s actually a great deal, in my opinion, considering that an entry level point and shoot is gonna run $200.
Cool Tools
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Nov 05
Greedy eyes and hands
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Nov 05
Flickr Plugin for WordPress
Wow. I guess I’ll need to use Flickr more now that everyone is supporting it in all the various tools such as WordPress. Like del.icio.us, it has become the de facto standard in what it does due to its flexibility and openness. A guy named Joe Tan produced a cool plugin for WordPress that adds some cool Flickr-ish stuff to WordPress.
The WordPress Flickr Post Bar plugin very simply allows you to easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts. Once installed, this plugin will display your most recent Flickr photos as thumbnails in a bar across the bottom of your WordPress post form. Clicking on the thumbnail of a photo you want to use will then automatically insert the proper HTML snippet into your blog post.
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Oct 05
Ooh Ahh: New Video iPod
Finally, an iPod I covet. The newest iPod supports video playback via the onboard display and tv-out. Now I’ll have a place to put all the episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Extras” I’ve been planning to watch. It is kinda sheisty of Apple to release this so soon after the Nano, which I’m sure many people bought. May be a good time to troll eBay for deals. This trumps everything else they’ve done thus far in my opinion, and I would actually consider paying $400 for something that had video playback, especially with the added benefit of tv output. The 60gb model is definitely the one to get. I could store all my mp3’s and a good portion of some of my videos on it. Tempting, so tempting. Must reign in impulse buying chemicals… delaying desire for awesome frivolous gadget…
Oh yeah, according to Waxy.org, ABC is currently offering episodes of Lost and Desperate Housewives for sale via iTunes for $1.99 an episode.
Update: To my chagrin, I read the fine print. This is not a video iPod as such, just an iPod that can play video. To view video on the iPod it has to be in Quicktime. That means converting to their crappy copy-restricted video format. Bleh. I guess the recording industry is excited as the prospect of selling video singles though.
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Sep 05
Good news for Nokia
Mobile device shipments nearly tripled across Europe in the first half of the year according to analysts Canalys. According to the company, volumes of smart phones and wireless handhelds rose 170 per cent year on year in EMEA to 9.6m. In comparison, Canalys claims that if you take out these ‘smart device’, basic mobile phone volumes only rose 11 per cent over the same period. At least one of the drivers of this phenomenon is simply that mobile phone upgrades are headed in this direction – most probably, a mobile phone user’s next handset will fall under the smartphone category, with the ability to receive email, surf the web and use other online data services.
Corporate spending is also fuelling the rise, with enterprises buying into the mobile email promise: some 80 per cent of enterprise shipments for mobile smartphones were for Nokia’s Series 60 keypad-based handsets. Its Series 80 range bought it another 13 per cent market share.
Of the wireless handhelds, the clear leader remains RIM on the manufacturer front, with a third of the market. But by platform, Windows Mobile is king and accounts for almost all the other devices shipped. Canalys
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Apr 05
My Skype Review
While reconnecting the utilities during my last move I thought it might be worthwhile to investigate the possibility of using VoIP (Voice Over IP) for my telephone and fax lines. I looked at a few of the most popular providers like Vonage and Packet8 before I decided to just keep service with my current provider since it is necessary to go through a lengthy 20-day process just to get the current number transferred to a VoIP provider I had no experience with. It did get me thinking about the advantages of using the computer to help manage calls, messages, and contacts.
A while back there was a lot of buzz about the developers of Kazaa (the popular peer-to-peer file sharing app) cashing out to go to work on a peer-to-peer distributed telephony project called, Skype. After the initial buzz I never checked in to test it out until now.
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Apr 05
Phone droolage: 4GB Nokia N91
The zero key on my cellphone has been broken for a while, and you would be surprised at how much you need that particular number when dialing. So, I’ve been looking at phone reviews and what options I have for getting a new one. I’d like to have speakerphone and bluetooth, for example. Anyway, I heard the awesome news that Nokia is releasing an iPod-killing, mp3-playing phone as part of their new phone line-up. The Nokia N91 looks to be a winner.
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Apr 05
New del.icio.us features
Some cool new things are happening to del.icio.us since Josh turned it into a full-time job. Del.icio.us is the most important thing that has happened to the web in the last year. It’s more important that Flickr or podcasting, for example. Flickr is awesome, but it is not revolutionary. Podcasting is just a fad whereas del.icio.us completely changes how you use the Web, especially when used in conjunction with del.icio.us Firefox extensions. Del.ici.ous allows you to personalize and classify the web. It streamlines how you find information that is relevant to you. It allows you to organize information very easily. Here are some of the new features:
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Mar 05
Trendy
If you’re attuned to what people wear and do you’ll notice fads. Why do people follow the lead of other people? What are you thinking when you wear certain clothes or buy certain products? How do you decide what has value? Here are a few things I’ve noticed:
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Mar 05
“Please mess with Texas” t-shirt
Some of the out of state visitors for SXSW might appreciate this shirt. You can get your own here at protoculture for $20. If you’re down on 6th street at Aaron’s Rock N Roll you can buy the antidote to this shirt that says: “F*ck y’all, I’m from Texas.” I don’t imagine they sell a lot of these due to the fact that they would only be funny outside the state or the country.
