A small but welcome feature should be in the Labs section if you use Google’s Gmail service. It’s called “Undo Send”, or as I like to call it: the “Uh-Oh” function. Once enabled, you’ll have a five-second window to stop a message from leaving… Read More »
Archive for March 2009
How to be a bootstrapped web worker. (WebWorkerDaily) Tesla slows down its Roadster plans. Yawn! (Earth2Tech) Software implications of an IBM-Sun deal. (OStatic) Affine Systems, another video search startup, emerges. (NewTeeVee) March Madness hits the iPhone. (jkOnTheRun) Another Apple clone. (theAppleBlog) Read More »
First Solar , the thin-film solar darling that has reportedly reached grid parity, or the point where photovoltaic electricity is as cheap as conventional electric power, has hit another milestone this morning: 1 GW of production. That’s the total amount of thin-film solar… Read More »
Butch Trucks, one of the original members of the Allman Brothers Band, may seem like an unlikely candidate to reinvent the world of online music. But that’s what he hopes to do with Moogis.com, an online music community he founded that offers high-def streaming of… Read More »
Blu-ray took another today hit as Apple announced that it will be offering HD movies for sale (iTunes link), rather than just for rent. That means consumers can download HD quality movies directly into their iTunes library, for use on their computers or… Read More »
Elgato is a company synonymous with television and video hardware products for the Mac. Today they announced the availability of Turbo.264 HD, a hardware conversion tool that offers a fast way to encode… Read More »
It’s time to share my week with you, my favorite time. This week was Spring Break but that didn’t affect me much as I was working away in Mobile Tech Manor (MTM). I swapped phones, revived a cool gadget and got rid of some gear… Read More »
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday released the agenda for its April 8 open meeting, and developing a national broadband plan topped the list. Another big item is a notice that the FCC will be soliciting data for its annual video competition report that discusses how people… Read More »
I use email drafts and a to-do app in a personal information manager to track things I need to get done but I’m always looking for better solutions. So I was interested to see that a new version of lino, the online sticky notes app… Read More »
U.S. green building rating systems have so far largely failed to address renovations of existing homes, in particular so-called multifamily dwellings like apartment buildings. But that is set to change. We’ve learned that the Berkeley, Calif.-based nonprofit Build It Green has secured grants to expand… Read More »
SonicSwap launched the latest version of its iTunes/YouTube mashup today, adding recommendations based on your musical taste to create personalized music video channels. Using music from YouTube is nothing new, but can you build a business when control over your content is twice removed? Up until… Read More »
Earlier this year, the nonprofit policy group Next 10 released a report on how energy efficiency and clean technology has provided stimulus for California’s economy — lending a fresh set of data to back up something we’ve noted more than once: The U.S. might do… Read More »
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