December 2007
54 posts
Merlin's Mannerisms [pdf] →
merlin mann is probably my personal hero. i realize it’s somewhat strange that my personal hero is some basically unknown internet “productivity guru”, but i’m ok with that. here’s a calendar of quotes by him, one for every day in 2008. i’m totally printing this out and hanging it on my wall.
ChiliPad: Heat or Cool Your Bed →
ChiliPad uses water to generate emperature adjustment from 65°F to 100° in a similar way semi-conductor technology that cools your computer.
iATKOS v1.0i Released →
“iATKOS is considered by osx86/hackintosh community to be the holy grail of “white box PC” Leopard releases.”
FolderShare.com - sync files, sync folders,... →
“A Windows Live Service” this does look cool tho, i’ll have to check it out. and tip-o-the-hat to the Live team for actually having a mac version. ahh, with a bit more research it looks like it was a separate company with mac support that they bought, and the live team just hasn’t killed the mac client. yet…
Let's all eat trafe for Chanukah! →
the human calendar® →
Apple relents, sanctions custom ringtones! →
this is like politics in action. the story goes like this: people create custom ringtones; apple disables the functionality; apple starts selling ringtones; people use apple’s method to install custom ringtones again; apple disables; apple re-enables; apple includes functionality in their own software to let people make free ringtones; people create custom ringtones.
Television: Watch Full-Length Television Online... →
i love how incredibly cheeky this is. ”closed beta, eh? well we’ll see about that…” too bad it doesnt work in canada. kinda like the itunes thing, i like ways to find out what new tv shows are worth downloading.
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The Pirate Bay Launches Last.fm Powered Music... →
two great tastes that taste great together
Producer Thanks Pirates For Stealing His Film |... →
Low speed AVR oscilloscope →
i want one. i bet we could do this with a pic too.
Apple takes baby steps with Canadian iTunes Store... →
finally. it’s been way too long since the US and even the UK got their TV. and even though i’d never buy a show on there (2$ and not even HD!) i am looking forward to taking advantage of the free episodes that they offer every once in a while. it will be a good way to discover new things to torrent…
Toshiba Unveils 5 minutes Rechargeable Batteries →
“With an estimated 175 million copies distributed in 2006, the IKEA catalogue is...”
– Jason Salavon - 374 Farben
Lady with Bike →
Clever Uses: Open Clamshell Packaging with a Can... →
Flickr: The Lolsheviks Pool →
LOLCatz meets Communism
The Apple Product Cycle →
funny, and rather accurate, parody of every apple release, starting with the obscure component manufacturer announcement and ending with microsoft announcing an inferior competitor.
Bazooka vs. Bulletproof Glass : Japan Probe →
Strictly No Photography →
“Photo-sharing for pictures taken where you are not allowed to take them.”
Kitty Wigs! →
Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day →
Hackszine.com: Annotate the web with ShiftSpace →
mmm, i love me some user-contributed metadata. it’s so web2.0 i’d call it web2.5
City 7: Toronto Conflict →
holy crap! half life 2 toronto mod!
promise.tv →
this thing record all channels simultaneously for a week. so you could, for example, go back and watch every station’s account of a breaking news story.
Wireless keyboards easily cracked →
“the “encryption” used on each regular keystroke involves xoring the key against a random one byte value determined during the initial sync with the receiver. so, if you sniff the handshake, you can decrypt the keystrokes. you really don’t have to though; there are only 256 possible encryption keys.”
Uncovered: Evidence that Mac OS X could run... →
if apple threw their weight behind wine, i bet they could do it. i mean, they’ve made translation layers to run OS9 apps in OSX, and to run PowerPC code on intel machines. if i could get an apple-nice solution for running all those weird chip programming apps without booting windows in virtualization, i would be a happy fellow.