of fido, iphones, and tethering

November 10, 2009

Well that’s just plain weird. I remember when the iPhone 3.0 OS came out that Fido had mentioned tethering would be enabled. I tried it back then only to find some message telling me on the actual iPhone that I would need to contact Fido. After some research I found a page clearly describing that [...]

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of witch, another useful osx app

November 7, 2009

Switching applications is easily enough done on OSX. Command-Tab. Except if you are like me, you have lots of applications running, each with tabs or individual windows inherent to a particular process. Well, there’s a handy little utility out there called Witch. It’s far more granular by design as it gives you much more control [...]

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of more courier goodies

November 7, 2009

I wrote about Microsoft’s super secret tablet device, named Courier, a little while back. Gizmodo has some really good screenshots outlining the user interface design. Hot damn, I have to say this is looking better all the time. Laptops are great but the dependance on what software you have, and your personal workflow, influence just [...]

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of dateline, a useful osx app

November 2, 2009

I know the Dashboard is seconds away from a quick key-press, but having your calendar pleasantly displayed on your desktop is really handy. Enter in Dateline. It essentially displays the date… in a line. It reminds me of sparklines! Ok, seriously it’s far more useful if you go check it out, rather than my terrible [...]

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of torchlight, a slightly more coherent review

October 30, 2009

After having put in about 12 hours in to the game so far, Torchlight is wildly entertaining and most enjoyable. You would be wise to spend the 20 bucks on the game, and have yourself a casual RPG experience that looks good, and won’t eat TOO much of your time from a story perspective. I [...]

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of torchlight, a slick, cheap and wonderful game

October 28, 2009

Torchlight is one of those games that I just latched on to early on. From the first tidbits of information I was keen to find out more. So far it’s pretty good. Game play is solid, graphics are great, and the over all feel of the game is coherent — more so for a 20 [...]

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of constellation, nasa’s future

October 17, 2009

On Oct 19th, we (the world) will get to see the new Ares rocket! It’s part of the Constellation program and that, for the slowbies out there, is the replacement for the current Shuttle program. Constellation consists of a bunch of different types of rockets, all of which are designed for different tasks. The shuttle [...]

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of ‘courier’, a secret tablet by microsoft

October 1, 2009

Tablets seem to be a currently unobtainable holy grail of computing.  There’s so many variables to be sure.  OCR, stylus input, finger gestures a la iPhone, quality hardware, software, integration with other primary systems.  I don’t see a tablet being able to take over my life quite yet, but it has to work as a [...]

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of absolution gap, a novel by alastair reynolds

September 28, 2009

As a quick aside, I slammed through Dan Brown’s latest novel, prior to Absolution Gap.  Not much to be said there.  Heh. [ This post will contain possible spoilers.  Nothing too glaring, but be warned regardless! ] Absolution Gap is the final part of the Inhibitor story arc in Reynolds’ Revelation Space universe, granted other [...]

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of tags in the bookstore

September 16, 2009

After a quick jaunt in to a local bookstore, I was remarking to myself just how terrible finding books are in these massive wastelands littered with non-approachable employees.  Given how pervasive tagging is as an available “web 2.0″ option, I think it’s only a matter of time until we see some sort of taxonomy entering [...]

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