Though we can’t say we really love the Nike Zoom Kobe I all that much (it’s no Air Jordan), someone over at Nike does. They also love the Mac. Nike has posted more pictures of their OS X powered Nike ID station over at the Nike Basketball Blog. Looks like they’re running some sort of customized Nike ID application designed specifically for the Mac, not just the version you can run at home through your web browser.

Related:
Air Max 360 USB Drive
NIKE-ID: From Outer-space Workstations

If you’re looking to get rid of that vanilla ipod speaker system in favor of something more playful, this dancing DJ, ipod dock/speaker system is for you. Though the sound won’t match that of the Bose sound dock, the price tag won’t either. According to this article we can expect to see this in the US by the end of the year for around $100.

[via AVING]

The highly anticipated “calendar of the future,” 30 Boxes has opened its doors to the public today with their first public beta. 30 Boxes is a web application which allows you to share your calendar with friends, coworkers, or whoever. It also integrates nicely with other web 2.0 applications such as flickr, myspace, webshots, livejournal, or any blogging engine. If you’ve been looking for this type of thing, head over to 30Boxes.com and sign up for a free account. You can also find a first hand look at the web app here [thomashawk.com].

Related:
30 Boxes blog
30 Boxes Launch Video
What is 30 Boxes? [via Gigaom]

If you are anything like us, you use your RSS reader more than your web browser these days - so when you come across a site that doesn’t have a feed, it’s left out of your daily pickings. That’s where Feed43 comes into play. Feed43 (currently in private beta) is a free service that given a site of your choosing, downloads the original source URL, processes it, converts to valid RSS feed on the fly, and returns it to any feed reading application.

Click here to beta-test Feed43.

[via Digg]

If you are looking for a quick way to remove get around Napster or iTunes DRM, you may want to check out a shareware application called MusicStacker. MusicStacker allows you to create DRM-free copies of your plagued online music store purchased audio. The copy you create can then be used without restriction. While this application is certainly not for everyone (audiophiles) it seems easy enough to use, making it is worthy of consideration if you are not looking to jump through hoops to strip off DRM. The application is shareware ($15.99) and there is a free trial option as well.

Download MusicStacker via New Concept Software
Download MusicStacker via Download.com

[Digg This! - Thanks Tajudeen.]

TK over at Silly Thing, received one of these Air Max 360 inspired USB drives from Nike. Probably not something we’ll ever see for sale, but cool nonetheless.

There’s got to be some funny play on words we’re missing here with material like “Stern” and “Sirius,” but oh well, let’s cut right to the meat of the post. Howard Stern’s show was broadcast today, uncensored, for the first time on Sirius Radio. If you’re not a Sirius subscriber, or are looking for some “sample” material, Howard’s show has of course hit the torrent networks. It’s available via all of the usual places. If you have to ask, don’t.

Highlighting another practical use of Ajax functionality, the author of this site has created AjaxWhois, a script in which you enter a domain name and it spits out the whois info. It’s fast and simple and you can even download the source code if you want to add the whois search to your own site or make enhancements. Check it out here.

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 pecking around the world wide web, be sure to check out the “best” web 2.0 apps of 2005:

Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without [via TechCrunch]

The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005 [via Dion Hinchcliffe]

Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005 [via ArticleDashboard.com]

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 warn you you’ll only be semi-standard. But hey, even Microsoft and the Mozilla Corporation were able to agree on this one, so it must be crystal clear that that thing means feed.

Update: If you’re a Mac user using Safari you should have noticed by now that your feed icon is a blue icon that says RSS. Fear not, you can join the standardization effort by installing this package. Or, you can continue to Think Different. (12/30/2005)