Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

Great Laptops for Under Six Hundred Dollars

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

As computer companies flood the market in an attempt take control of the computer technology industry, it can be difficult to choose a laptop that fits your unique needs. When computers first hit the market they were terribly cost prohibitive, so technology was only available to the elite few ...

3 Links — 1-24-2011

Monday, January 24th, 2011

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National Parks Infinite Photo from NatGeo

Friday, August 20th, 2010

The National Parks Infinite Photo page at NationalGeographic.com says: Zoom in on a spectacular national park photo to reveal hundreds more photos making up the original. Then zoom again at each level for an endless array of images, each submitted by users to My Shot. This description actually misrepresents the thing a little ...

Livestream.com (embed test)

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Watch live streaming video from youserved at livestream.com Here's a Livestream I'm sort of be helping out with. Hopefully streaming will be done live on this channel, not this weekend but next. This embed is also to test the stream on a different blog and on Macs because it skips and ...

BumpTop: 3D Mac Desktop

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

BumpTop -- a Mac program that converts your drab desktop from 2D into 3D --  looks interesting enough to try. Tech Startups brings a "hands-on" review and opines.

Google Voice for iPhone via mobile Safari available NOW

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Even though the Google Voice app was rejected by Apple, Google went ahead and put out Google Voice through the web, via mobile Safari, at google.com/voice. I haven't had much time to test it out, but did make a test call using Google voice from my iPhone's Safari browser. All ...

WWDC 2009 Live Coverage

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

iPhone rumor roundup and the likeliness of each rumor I'll be following -- from my computer -- the Apple keynote address from the Worldwide Developer's Conference, Monday, June 8, at noon CDT where a new iPhone is expected to be announced. Here are a few sources covering the event live and a direct ...

Google Latitude Launches (with bugs?)

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Google Latitude, a web and mobile phone service that shows where your friends are on a map, has gone live.  However, it seems to have a few kinks left in it as the above iPhone screen grab shows.  Right now it doesn't seem to work at all on my iPhone. ...

Weird pasting behavior from Open Office

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Funny stuff.  The Asian characters below are what I get when I try dragging links from Firefox into Open Office (where they look normal) then into Word Press.  And I even tried saving as a Word document then using the "Paste from Word" button in Word Press. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????•?????????????‰????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????›?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????> Update: The Asian characters ...

Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” to Finally Work on Macs with Silverlight

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Update: http://www.netflix.com/silverlightoptin is the link to sign up for the Mac Beta, right now. It's about time. Crunch Gear says Netflix will enable its "Watch Instantly" feature for Intel Macs by year's end by utilizing Silverlight.  Looks like Netflix will still use DRM, but at least those Netflix subscribers with ...