Technology, Science, and other ridiculousness
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Recently (like 4 days ago), while trying to re-enter the world of consolidated - easy to deal with - email, calendars and all sorts of information sharing, I decided to try something I’d done in the past: use one email tool to help consolidate my accounts. I have a few, but not too many. I […]
So, yesterday, I do my iTunes 7.2 upgrade in hopes of un-DRMing my songs… this is what I see: 3 Songs. What? 3 songs?! That’s ALL that it could find in my 5700 song library? OK, so, maybe I have a lot of old CDs that I ripped, but I KNOW I’ve purchased a lot […]
Obviously, it’s been a while since I’ve written. I won’t get into the details, but there were a number of valid reasons. But let’s just talk about how embracing mobile technology can simplify your life.
If you talk to my buddies James and Kevin at JKOnTheRun.com, these Masters of Mobile can certainly tell you that this type of technology […]
With all of the crazy ferver of Cisco buying WebEx, I thought I’d take a different tack; how about we talk about what Cisco originally did: they sold networking hardware!
Well, we all know that Cisco has its hooks into home networking gear, and that unified messaging and presentation software, and that’s all good. In […]
Well, it’s finally been announced, Adobe’s Apollo platform is now GA for developers. This has been one of the most highly anticipated platform-agnostic SDKs in a while.  The best part about this product is it takes the basis of tools developers already know and understand, like Flash, Flex, HTML, AJAX, and javascript and allows them to design and […]
With my recent talk of IMing and saving the world, I thought “what about saving myself from forgetting what I need to do?” Well, that’s where “IMified.com” comes in. They’ve come up with this “Beta” product that allows you to get instant access to an increasing number of web applications, right through your IM client. […]
In a report by the BBC (way back around the first of November - I haven’t gotten out site reviewing much), there is news about how “a think-tank has called for outdated copyright laws to be rewritten to take account of new ways people listen to music, watch films and read books.”
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The article (BBC Report) […]
The days of the Wal-Mart Roll-back smiley may be numbered. It seems that the branding efforts of Wal-Mart, using the Smiley Face, may have gone over like a lead balloon with their new ad agency.
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Mr. Smiley has already been torn from the uniforms of employee vests and Walmart.com. It’s kind of interesting that Wal-Mart is […]
Today, Blockbuster Inc. announced that it is giving online renters unprecedented access to movies through the introduction of BLOCKBUSTER Total Access.â„¢ This is Blockbuster’s movie rental program that gives its active online customers the option of returning their DVDs through the mail OR exchanging them at one of their more than 5,000 participating BLOCKBUSTER® stores […]
If you were planning on creating a Jot account today, don’t bother! It appears our buds over at Google have been in M & A mode and have picked up the service for themselves!
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It appears that there must be a lot of great ideas embedded in the throws of Jot and YouTube. So why not […]
