January 2010
33 posts
With Nexus One, Is Google Eating Its Own Dogfood... →
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Great write up on the Nexus One
January 5. That’s the day we’ll learn all we want to know about the Nexus One. Google didn’t explicitly say anything about the device in…
Hidden Mac Gem: DigitalColor Meter →
I’ve been using a Macintosh computer for a few years now, but just a few a weeks ago, I decided to look in my Utilities folder—one of those spur of the moment kind of things.
I found the…
December 2009
59 posts
How To Guides: The Best of 2009 [How To] →
As any diligent weekend reader knows, we don’t just find and explain the news around here, we like to do stuff; hack things; make gadgets better. Here’s the cream of this year’s how…
The Vile History of Gift Cards and How They Came... →
Gift cards have ruined Christmas. An utterly depressing fact: They’re the most popular present in the United States. Did you know Blockbuster is responsible for the modern gift card? The…
hellyes posted a photo @ Bravo Cucina Italiana →
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The Best Alternatives to Every Apple Product... →
Apple makes some of the most specialized mainstream devices around, but the gear is never very cheap and, let’s face it, it stinks for any one company to own your wallet. So here are the best…
hellyes posted a photo @ Quaker Steak & Lube →
Time for wings!
iSpy, With My Little Eye, A Children’s Game... →
Two features make the iPhone great for social games: its GPS chip and its camera. An app called iSpy which was released on the iPhone last week (iTunes link) uses both geolocation and mobile…
MagicPrefs Is Like Pixie Dust for the Magic Mouse... →
If you have a Magic Mouse, you need to download MagicPrefs—it lets you fully customize gestures, swipes, touch sensitivity and, crucially if you’ve got a 27-inch iMac, double the tracking…
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You Have Nothing to Apologize For, Panera Bread... →
Step one: bring your iMac to a Panera Bread. Step two: play WoW on it. Step three: be old. Step four: win the unconditional respect of the entire internet, forever. UPDATE: This appears to be…
Two Growl styles worth a serious look →
Filed under: Software
Designer/Developer Christopher Lobay has been hard at work making some excellent Styles for the system notification app, Growl. Growl displays temporary, floating…
First Look: Snagit for Mac Public Beta →
Filed under: Software, Switchers, First Look
Switchers were elated earlier this year when TechSmith, developers of the fabulous Camtasia screen recorder application for Windows,…
Make Thunderbird 3 Your Ultimate Online/Offline... →
You may be a diehard Gmail user, prone to declaring desktop email clients dead. That’s fine. We still think you’ll find Thunderbird 3 to be a better offline email solution, and a really…
Most Popular Free Mac Downloads of 2009 [Best Of... →
Nothing beats finding just the right application to fill a common need, fix a problem, or boost your productivity. Give yourself an early present this holiday season with 15 of the most popular…
Airlock automatically locks and unlocks your Mac... →
Filed under: Odds and ends
I work in a busy office. Occasionally a coworker will call or knock on my door and ask for my help with something, and the two of us will go to wherever I…
The Android Market Is Getting Ready to Explode... →
With total apps surpassing 20,000 this month, the gap in size—and consequently, quality—between the Android Market and the iPhone App Store is finally starting to close. AndroLib’s been tracking
Boxee Beta Leaks on BitTorrent [Boxee] →
Interested in trying out the latest version of Boxee with its fancy new UI? Beta 0.9.20.9647 is now available for download from The Pirate Bay. [TPB]
What's Basically the Most Adorable Children's Gift... →
Here’s the idea: your child scribbles an animal on Shidonni’s website, they hand-sew a corresponding one-of-a-kind plush toy and mail it to you. Neat, right? From the looks of this…
Beta Beat: Droplr adds to the quick-share... →
Filed under: Software, Beta Beat
One of my favorite features in OS X is the ability to drag pretty much anything, drop it on pretty much anything else, and have the item be contextually…
10 Great Digital Gifts for Social Media Lovers →
Maybe you just hate leaving the house to shop, or you find yourself last-minute gift-hunting, or you simply live on the Internets and want to give gifts to other web lovers. The web can…
Qik Launches Desktop App for Live Video Sharing →
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Qik. Last week, the company launched its first official app for the iPhone 3GS, letting users finally livestream from their phones without…
Event Planning Online: 14 Essential Social Media... →
Jason Keath is the founder of Social Fresh, a social media conference for marketers. He organizes social media events across the country, consults with companies on social media, and…
Best Man Rigs Newlyweds’ Bed To Tweet During Sex.... →
When a man in the UK was asked to be the best man at his friend’s wedding, he was touched. So touched, that he promised not to pull any pranks before or during the wedding. After the wedding…
Reeder 1.2 Update →
Reeder 1.2 update kills →
It’s slick. Sooo slick. Silvio Rizzi has really brought in some innovation in user interface with this one. Perhaps borrowing from Tweetie’s pull-down-to-refresh,…
Fake Steve Gives It to at&T →
Fake Steve gives it to AT&T →
For all those of you frustrated about your favourite network’s forward thinking strategies with regard to iPhone data usage, here’s an article that’ll reassure you…
How To: Totally Overhaul Your Phones With Google... →
Google Voice, which lets users consolidate all their phones under one number, archive your texts and voicemails, and much, much more, is two things to most people: vaguely promising, and…
Ommwriter - Peaceful Writing on Your Mac →
The Macintosh is regarded as the best platform for creative professionals. And very often you find nifty little applications that help you with your work. As a Mac user, I continually…
CrunchPad Federal Lawsuit Filed; Some Additional... →
Thursday afternoon we filed a lawsuit against Fusion Garage in the Northern District of California Federal court. The causes of action include Fraud and Deceit, Misappropriation of Business…
Jolicloud pre-beta now available to download,... →
Let’s face it: Chrome OS has been snagging all of the attention in the OS world here lately, but let us not forget about Jolicloud. The Linux-based system, which was designed to be…
What the Game Industry Could Learn from the Film... →
I’ve got the Monsters, Inc. Blu-ray in my hand. But it’s more than just a Blu-ray. It’s a BD for my PS3, a DVD for my bedroom and a digital copy for my laptop. Disney, who is probably the most…
How To Suck Newspapers Straight to the Kindle,... →
Gadget Lab has a simple tutorial on setting up a Mac to automatically beam your Kindle any web-based content, conveniently stripped of any ads. If I had a Kindle, I’d try this. But I’m with…
Analyst Claims iPhone Users Are Suffering From... →
You may have heard the term Stockholm Syndrome used in reference to hostages that form bizarre attachments to their captors. Analysts from Strand Consulting are using the same term to describe…
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CornerClick - Add a New Layer of Functionality to... →
Hot corners are possibly one of the most indispensable features of the Mac OS X user interface. To have Expose or your Desktop pop our just by moving your mouse to a screen corner is something…
Surprise!: Pokemon Is The Devil's Work →
“Pokemon World is a world of the demonic. Of the satanic.” I knew it! This guy says a lot of crazy shit but the best is between 1:30 and 2:30. It’s scary. And what’s even scarier is the…
Rumor: Foxconn May Have Received Order for Next... →
Today’s tenuous iPhone 4 rumor comes to us today from Russia, Twitter, and the letters F-O-X-C-O-N-N. The editor of Mobile Review, which has no track record on Apple rumors, is claiming…
So Just Where Does All That iPhone Money Go?... →
To Apple, mostly. But El Jobso benevolently allows some of his gold coins to trickle down to a number of other parties, as detailed by this helpful infographic from GigaOm. [GigaOm]
Thunderbird 3 Officially Released with New... →
Windows/Mac/Linux: A whopping two years at its second major release, Mozilla’s popular desktop email client Thunderbird is now available as the new and improved Thunderbird 3.0, and there’s a…
Too Much AT&T Fail [Image Cache] →
Remember that Mark the Spot iPhone app for telling AT&T where they suck? Um, yeah. [Thanks Joe!]
HTC Bravo Snapdragon Android phone shows up in... →
While there were several enticing models in the leaked HTC 2010 roadmap yesterday – it’s about time someone released an Android-based candybar with QWERTY, for instance – the most interesting was…
Use Your iPhone or iPod touch to Lock Your Mac... →
While I prefer to use a long password to protect my computer, I like the idea of being able to use a physical key to lock it. This is precisely what Airlock does, using your iPhone. It works…
Build It With Me Helps Connect Designers With... →
Finding the right designers and/or developers can be very difficult. Build It With Me is hoping to solve that problem by connecting the two through their online service.
Build It With Me…
Mac Applications for Tagging Files →
Often, we have plenty of important working stuffs stored on our Mac. Without proper management on those files, it will be difficult for us to search and get back to our previous work files.
One…
Inside Look at Birth of the IPod →
Inside Look at Birth of the IPod →
Ben Knauss, former Senior Manager at PortalPlayer, the company that part-built the iPod for Apple, talks to Wired about its creation:
“They’d have meetings…
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hellyes checked in @ La Esquina →
hellyes checked in @ La Esquina
Brutally Honest Ads: A More Honest Luke Wilson... →
The original Luke Wilson AT&T ads always struck me as a bit sketchy, like they weren’t really telling the whole truth. So I fixed that. Here’s the original for reference if you’re…
Brutally Honest Ads: A More Honest Luke Wilson... →
The original Luke Wilson AT&T ads always struck me as a bit sketchy, like they weren’t really telling the whole truth. So I fixed that. Here’s the original for reference if you’re…