Wrapping up the year with best-of lists is something that journalists cannot seem to get enough of. They do come come in handy however, during the boredom of New Years Day when all of the good bowl games have been monetizingly spread throughout the week. So, if you’re bored and aimlessly hunting and […]
Where would we be without standards? To the right, witness what is now being widely considered the standard icon for a feed - as in RSS/atom feed. If the orange icon doesn’t match your blogging color scheme, feel free to visit Feed Icons for various deviations on the color - though we must […]
If you’ve been itching to try out any of TiVo’s latest offerings, you’ll need to ditch the phone line and start getting your TiVo up-to-date via a broadband connection. TiVo is now selling its very own 802.11g Network adapters. Instead of digging through TiVo’s compatibility list to find an adapter that […]
As 2005 comes to a close, there is no doubt that this has been the biggest year for the over-promised Web 2.0 “platform” to date. Web based applications are popping up daily thanks to more powerful web browsers and the use of different programming techniques such as the increasingly popular use of AJAX. […]
Buried within the second page of this New York Times on the Web article on the Slingbox is this gem of a quote:
For now, video streamed from a Slingbox cannot be viewed on an Apple Macintosh computer, though Krikorian says his company will announce a solution to that problem in January.
It will be interesting […]
On the one year anniversary of the most prolific shutdown of a torrent indexing site to date, Sloncek, the infamous administrator of SuprNova.org , is speaking out as to what really went down that cold day in December 2004. Stating that his servers were raided by police, Sloncek went through a brief legal battle […]
Google has just taken Google Homepage to the next level. They are now offering up an API which will allow you to create custom modules to display on your personal homepage. Take a look at the API - Developer Guide to get started or check out the directory for some pre-made modules. […]
We’ve always had a thing for Richard Sapper’s Tizio lamp and now we can build our own. Grab a pre-packaged DEK (Designer Emulation Kit) and get out your wire cutters. The do-it-yourself mini-lamp attaches to any standard 9-volt battery and comes in 4 varieties. Did we mention the light is an LED? […]
File this under ‘we should have thought of this years ago’…
ZHO Innovation has created the Cable ID, a rubberhelix sure put an end to your cable identification problems. Need to know which CAT5 cable goes to the bedroom? No problem, it’s the blue one that’s marked bedroom. Sure an old Sharpie does […]
Hiroshi Fujiwara, one of Japan’s most popular pop musicians, recently spent some time at Nike’s Portland and LA headquarters. His blog entry on the visit contains some cool pics of Nike’s private jets, but most interesting are the pics of the NIKE-ID machines of the future. Sure you can customize a […]
