While I’ve had no qualms of mucking about Windows registries for the past half-dozen years, I’m still cautious in Terminal on the Mac. Call me a baby, but … Read More »
Archive for July 2008
Mobile tech often adds additional pitfalls in terms of security. Not that working solely at home is 100% secure, but when you’re out and about or on multiple devices daily, … Read More »
How is my life as a Web worker affected by the closing of 600 Starbucks nationwide? Let me count the ways. But seriously, I’m sure there are many a Web worker lamenting the possible closure of their … Read More »
Independence Day weekend might be over but the presidential candidates are still debating energy independence. The Republicans have gone on the offensive and launched an attack ad aimed at Obama’s energy plan. However, their candidate McCain seems to have trouble pronouncing the name of his own … Read More »
If you have .Mac already, you are no doubt familiar with the .Mac status page which lists services that are available. (Hopefully, you won’t have to be familiar with the page when MobileMe takes over because there won’t be as much downtime.) Just below … Read More »
The big buzz of the evening is that Twitter, a San Francisco-based startup that allows anyone to post short (up to 140 characters) messages to its platform and thus broadcast them to one or many using different media such as web and mobile, is … Read More »
If it takes three of anything to make a trend, then video-sharing site Vimeo is definitely trendy (though they would pelt me with rocks for calling them that) with three months of almost hockey stick-like growth. According to Compete, Vimeo’s site traffic more than … Read More »
“I’m not here to make friends,” you’ve probably heard more than one reality show contestant say. But how often has that cliche popped up? YouTube user richfofo has a montage of the best and brightest. Also, in Karina Longworth’s words, “In terms of sheer … Read More »
Big Apple to Spend Billions Cutting Greenhouse Gases: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that the city will spend $2.3 billion to cut greenhouse gas emissions from municipal buildings and operations by 30 percent over the next 30 years – Reuters. “Europe Reconsiders Biofuel … Read More »
SpotMixer just let us know it will be the first self-serve online video advertising creation provider included in Google’s television ad toolset. It’s a coup for the new service, which is part of personal media startup One True Media, in terms of getting exposure to … Read More »
Connected Flow, makers of the crunchy goodness that is FlickrExport (casts pix from iPhoto or Aperture to Flickr) has jumped the shark a bit and pre-announced Exposure, a forthcoming iPhone application that will bring Flickr to your iPhone or iPod Touch in … Read More »