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Late last night, I ran across podPress, “a dream plugin for podcasters using WordPress. It’s so cool that Candy went to sleep… because I was donking around with the computer far into the night.
I have updated my two previous podcast postings, Podcast #1 and Performance Bonuses for Politicians. If you [...]
Spam disgusts me. It has rendered free email, one of the most heartfelt examples of human cooperation, completely untenable.
I have been relying on email, for business and personal connections, since I worked at TRW in 1980. I used to run a medium-sized UUCP hub at FileNet in Orange County, CA on a VAX 750 [...]
I seem to be an internet omnivore, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project
Omnivores make up 8% of the American public.
Members of this group use their extensive suite of technology tools to do an enormous range of things online, on the go, and with their cell phones. Omnivores [...]
Don MacAskill over at SmugMug (my favorite photo sharing site) brought my attention to OpenID, a budding solution to an old computer problem: If you use a computer, you have way too many passwords to conveniently remember. You might use one or two passwords, perhaps a simple one for [...]
Are you wondering what is new in Firefox 2.0? Read eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Firefox 2 Final Release.
Download Firefox (for free) from Mozilla.com.
Ms. Dewey is simply too funny. Crank up your speakers and prepare for a hillarious Flash event.
I don’t think that she will replace Google but then again… you never know….
I continue to find more uses for the wonderful (and $free) LibraryThing. Like so many of us, I have bunches of books that I have never had a good way to keep track of but now I do. Like…
My wish list — yes, I do accept donations My
LibraryThing seemed so obviously good that I simply dived in head first and started cataloging all of the books in the house, even though I did not know what I would do with it beyond that initial step. I am even more convinced of LT’s utility because the first opportunity to actually use [...]
I’m addicted to LibraryThing. It only took a few hours and I only have a start on cataloging my library. This is great stuff!
Must sleep… must sleep… must ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz
Are you sick and tired of being told that you cannot make legitimate copies of your own music? Did you buy a song for your iPod only to later discover that you could not play it on something else that you own? A “little” company, eMusic.com, has the answer: they sell good music for a [...]
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