Online organizer and notepad tool springpad is one of those apps that has impressed me from the start. I love the ready-made springpads and the ability to clip items in… Read More »
Archive for July 2009
10 free resources for splashy graphics and slick photos (OStatic) Watch a real-time reenactment of the Apollo 11 space mission (NewTeeVee) Mac market share suffers from netbook envy (TheAppleBlog) Sync iTunes with smartphones (Pre included) for free (jkOnTheRun) Wal-Mart’s green ratings: a boon for carbon… Read More »
The iPhone has become the bellwether when it comes to gauging how well phones do at launch. The iPhone 3GS is estimated to have done better than most phones, with Apple reporting a million sold in the first three days. The Palm Pre launch was… Read More »
This falls under the category of totally awesome. Today, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has partnered with AOL for a real-time reenactment of the Apollo 11 space mission, using video clips, live-streaming… Read More »
A new survey from Solutions Research Group found that 73 percent of Time Warner and Comcast subscribers polled thought the idea of their authentication plans (TV Everywhere and OnDemand Online, respectively), which will provide more premium video content online at no extra charge to… Read More »
The big news in the world of sustainability this week is that Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, will launch a labeling system to disclose the environmental impact of the products it sells and will be asking its more than 100,000 suppliers to start tracking things… Read More »
We are big believers in ultra-broadband, which is why we’ve been paying such close attention to the race to the 100 GB future, which includes optical networking breakthroughs, the 100 GB Ethernet and the need for network virtualization. The explosion of… Read More »
There seems to be no end to the solid-state disk upgrade choices for netbooks these days. Every few weeks another vendor appears with speedy flash memory options. This week, it’s Active Media and its two MLC SabreTooth SSD lines for ASUS netbooks. Grrr…baby! The SaberTooth… Read More »
nim·ble : quick and light in motion; marked by quick, alert, clever conception, comprehension, or resourcefulness. Being a web worker has its advantages, and one of the biggest is that you can build a very adaptable and nimble business. Here are a few of the ways we… Read More »
As you may already know, one of the improvements that came along with iPhone 3.0 was mobile Safari’s ability to access the iPhone and iPod touch’s geolocation services. Geolocation is quickly becoming a feature that more and more web developers are looking at implementing, especially given… Read More »
The news that Apple blocked the ability for Palm Pre owners to sync their phone with iTunes came as no surprise. Apple had warned Pre owners that the ability to sync the phone with iTunes might go away, and the very next iTunes update did… Read More »
The company formerly known as Macrovision, in an effort to rebrand itself for the mashup world of social media, over-the-top video and pay TV, relaunched today as Rovi. The new company, whose shares will trade under the symbol ROVI on the Nasdaq, will attempt to… Read More »