Archive for November, 2006
Thomas Hawk gets a Mac
Photographer Thomas Hawk buys himself a Mac. And the first thing I was thinking was: Now we’ll have lots of advice on digital photography and working with photos on the Mac. I think Thomas is a very talented photographer and an excellent writer too. And I’m always looking for advice on how to store/organize/work with [...]
Jason’s new glasses
Hey, we all get to have an opinion on Jason’s new glasses.
I agree with msjenbee: “This thread is far better than any makeover show I’ve seen on TV.”
But what on earth is Andrew talking about? “See, I was going to say “You look Norwegian,” rather than German.”
Beatles on iTunes
Ok, so the big news on CNN today is that Beatles will be on iTunes soon. At the same time, BBC reports that the copyright in Britain will NOT be extended:
But an independent review is to recommend the terms are not extended, a well-placed government source has said.
Gee, let me think. So “Love me do” [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
4 minute preview now on Google Video.
After reading all the six Harry Potter books – a number of times – for my daughter, I consider myself quite an expert. I’m writing a longer post on what I think will happen in the final book. Coming up after christmas some time.
Harry Potter movies at [...]
Talk to me with Plugoo
I’ve just registered and installed Plugoo here. It works like this (from the FAQ):
On your blog, personal webpage or e-sales site, you set up a Plugoo (very easy to do, by the way !). Visitors on your site can see the Plugoo and type a message in it to send it to you !
This Plugoo [...]
C-blogger
Apparently I’m a C-blogger. I can live with that!
Tynonym
Today Jason writes about “The Cupertino effect”, described as “… incorrect spellcheck suggestions that make it into finalized documents”. He links to this post at the Language blog.
Which made me think of a new word I’ve made up: Tynonym. I googled it and found only two hits, both of which I think is just spelling [...]
Boingboing passes 3 million subscribers!
Boingboing now has over 3 000 000 subscribers to their RSS feed. 3 million! Unbelievable. And well deserved. Still on my top10-list, even if I almost threw them out when there were a new mashup of a subway map every three minutes some time ago.
Update BoingBoing reports that there has been some strange [...]
Syncing Google calenders and iCal
Oh joy! Spanning Partners are soon launching Spanning Sync, which is a system preference for OS X that let you sync Google Calenders with iCal.
There’s a screencast showing how it will work. And it does exactly what I need it do.
Edit Google Calenders in iCal
So now I can make a shared calender in Google Calender, [...]
