Chris Holland writes, “A few engineers here at EarthLink have gathered into a task force to quickly deploy a website, enabling disaster survivors to inform the world of their whereabouts and for their friends and relatives to find them in our database. We’re also actively seeking … Read More »
Archive for September 2005
Thin client has a new best friend – the Writely! This is to Microsoft Word what Yahoo Oddpost was to Outlook. An online collaborative wordprocessing tool, that is amazingly brisk, clean and has the crispness that will make ya’ll love it. Here is the link! Read More »
On Tuesday Creative Technology made a claim that they have a patent on technology that Apple’s iPod uses. They’ve yet to say if they will be filling suit but technology lawyers believe it to be almost certain that they will. Creative said the patent covers … Read More »
Apple’s stepping up for hurricane relief in the wake of Katrina by including a link on the iTunes Music Store that accepts donations for the American Red Cross. All donations through the iTMS donation page are billed to whatever credit card you normally buy music … Read More »
One of the failings of iTunes is the inability to copy music files from the iPod to your iTunes library without third party utilities. I suspect Apple did this by design to keep we iTunes customers from copying our DRMed music. I recently rebuilt my … Read More »
I am one happy geek today. Late last night I got fed up with Outlook crashing a few times a day and my HP tc1100 generally running slower and slower so I decided to rebuild the Tablet from scratch. I figured it was also a good … Read More »
I thought I would share with all of you some great software resources that I have come across recently. No need to expand on that thought any more, so lets get started! Mail Here is a handy collection of plugins for Mail.app that allow users to … Read More »
I think the Nikon Coolpix S4 is the compact camera for me. I need a camera small enough to carry around in my Booq bag but all the cameras of that size that I’ve looked at had a big failing. Most of them only have … Read More »
In my Business 2.0 story, Google Net, I outlined the how’s and why’s of Google’s dark fiber & WiFi plans, and in the accompanying graphic highlighted some of the “bandwidth hungry applications” the company may have on deck. On of them was Voice. I … Read More »
Fred Wilson is feeling blue and worrying about downturns What if that capital supply tightens? What if we have a recession in 2006 like many economists are now predicting? Read More »
Creative Technologies shipped about 4000 mp3 players in Japan that has a Windows virus. According to reports, the filesystem on the players contains one file that is infected with the Wullik.B (also known as Rays.A) email worm. Or as iPod lovers would say, reason number … Read More »
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Katrina Survivor Search Site
update 09/05/2005: If you wish to enter information about Katrina Survivors, please click here to enter it on the earthlink katrina survivor search site. The comments section on this blog entry isn’t the most effective place to do so. orignal information: Taking a second for an … Read More »