FCC released some data about broadband penetration in the US today. According to its news release, High-speed lines connecting homes and businesses to the Internet increased by 15% during the first half of 2004, from 28.2 million to 32.5 million lines, compared to a 20% increase, … Read More »
Archive for December 2004
Robin Capper is a CAD guy in New Zealand who has a nice blog, RobiNZ blog, and he is also a MindManager devotee. I have been thinking about MindManager a lot lately and Robin has a couple of articles detailing how he uses MM … Read More »
iPods are all over college dorms and an interesting phenomenon has cropped up among this set. With the prevalence of iPods and the player’s ability to publish a personal playlist over a local network (like a college network) students are browsing other people’s playlists to … Read More »
Xten SIP Softphone for Linux is now available and you can get it by writing to X-ten via email linuxbeta at xten.com. Read More »
I first wrote about the Creative Audigy 2 ZS Notebook card a few months ago when it was first announced and The Register has just published a review of this super audio … Read More »
GoBinder is like a note organizer, calendar tracker, project manager all rolled into one. The producer of GoBinder pitches it towards students but many non-student users will tell you it works great for them, too. The Student Tablet PC has published a review of … Read More »
I have always wanted to easily add ink annotations to photos and images for sending to someone else. A new program promises to make this an easy task and even produces … Read More »
I think (hope) everyone knows how fantastic iPhoto and Graphic Converter work. This isn’t about those applications. I wanted to write about a few small image utilities/apps/whatever that you may not have heard of yet. I use these almost daily and haven’t found … Read More »
Cingular and AT&T Wireless is going to have some hiccups, and despite the meshing being ahead of schedule, I expect some upheavals. Why do I say that? Well because of my visit to the Cingular store in downtown San Francisco this morning. First of all there … Read More »
There’s an awesome story at PacificT (the current owners of Graphing Calculator) about the history of the app. It’s written by Ron Avitzur, the guy that made it happen – skunkworks style – after the project had been canned by Apple. Very entertaining … Read More »
CNet interviewed Karl Freund, vice president of IBM eServer pSeries to find out what’s upcoming from IBM in 2005. While the focus is on IBM’s work, there’s the obvious relationship with Apple, and therefore the benefits that may be in store for Apple … Read More »
Yamaha has just released what could easily be the very first WiFi enabled piano. The new Mark IV series piano has a PDA-type Pocket Remote Controller, a wireless remote with dedicated buttons and a full-color LCD touch screen. In addition to the Pocket Remote, select models … Read More »
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