March 2008
50 posts
[from jarrodn] Microsoft Sync Framework : Sync... →
Microsoft Sync Framework – a comprehensive synchronization platform enabling collaboration and offline for applications, services and devices with support for any data type, any data store, any transfer protocol, and network topology. Samples here
[from jarrodn] Chris Love's Official Blog -... →
Email Apnea
One of my favourite authors and imaginary property activist Cory Doctrow has written an excellent column in Internet Evolution where he describes the bliss of Uninterupted Communications. From the Article: “You see, I love communicating too much to be interrupted. Whether I’m writing an essay or a novel, composing an email, or chattering with someone by voice, the last thing I want is...
[from jarrodn] New Log Reporting, Database... →
[from jarrodn] Color + Design Blog / WINNERS:... →
[from jarrodn] WTFs/m →
WatchZero Punctuation reviews Turok.
Official Google Blog: Opening Google Docs to users... →
Praise be to Google - this is a simply amazing capability to allow you build a dashboard or scorecard reporting system for free! To try it out, go into Google Docs and open up a spreadsheet. Click on the chart icon, and click ‘Gadget…’. Pick your gadget, customize it to fit your data, and then publish it out to iGoogle or to any webpage.
101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve... →
Inside CRM Editors have compiled an awesome list of tips for improving a website one step at a time.
[from jarrodn] GenoPal Online →
[from jarrodn] Bit Rate Throttling is now released... →
[from jarrodn] Beware a Generation of Risk Takers →
Too Funny - Eric Clapton Is All Thumbs →
Late last year a Finnish media artist named Santeri Ojala got a lot of attention for a series of hilarious YouTube videos in which he lifted concert footage of various guitar heroes and overdubbed his own intentionally awful playing. The bad musicianship was funny enough, but the verisimilitude made it even funnier: Ojala was great at matching each player’s hand movements and timing, and he...
[from jarrodn] Google Sky →
[from jarrodn] The physiology of taste, by... →
HMAS Sydney found →
THE wreckage of HMAS Sydney, sunk off the West Australian coast in 1941, has been found. The Sydney’s entire crew of 645 went down with the ship in the Indian Ocean and its location has been a…
Study: amount of digital info > global storage... →
A study conducted by IDC has determined that the total volume of digital content has surpassed the total storage capacity supplied. The digital universe has grown to 281 billion gigabytes.
How to Fry an Egg > Start Cooking →
If you’d like to see a site that uses “video” very well, check out Start Cooking. It animates still shots in a highly effective way. I can’t think of a site that shows how to do stuff with “multimedia” better than this one. There’s one more thing to really like about this site too: It’s so easy to find the iTunes and RSS feeds. There’s a lot...
Vatican Invents New Sins (or Another Reason to...
“You offend God not only by stealing, taking the Lord’s name in vain or coveting your neighbor’s wife, but also by wrecking the environment, carrying out morally debatable experiments that manipulate DNA or harm embryos,” said [Bishop Gianfranco] Girotti, who is responsible for the body that oversees confessions. In the sixth century, Pope Gregory handed down a list of...
100+ Resources for Web Developers →
“At up to $8,000 per gallon, inkjet ink is among the most expensive liquids by...”
– The Grouse: The Inkjet Refill Racket | Popular Science
PhotoshopTalent Blog » Blog Archive » 33 awesome... →
How to Convert From PC to Mac - Mahalo →
If these two computers can learn to coexist in peace, you too can one day master both operating systems. (Creative Commons photo by Jeremy Keith)
Startup Makes Cheap Solar Film Cells With Inkjet... →
Konarka has developed its affordable Power Plastic film with several manufacturing techniques, from an early proprietary printing process (pictured above in image rotated for space) to a new breakthrough with inkjet printers that should dramatically reduce costs, with applications including sensors and RFID. (Photograph by David A. White/Konarka)
Airbus A380 - 360o Panorama. →
Tour the office at the pointy end of the new A380 airbus.
[from jarrodn] 278theinterstatesystem.jpg (JPEG... →
HOWTO Earn an artist's living in the 21st century:... →
Kevin Kelly’s just posted “1000 True Fans,” a business plan for all kinds of creators in the twenty first century:
Mike Linksvayer » MIN US$750k for NIN →
Mike Linksvayer, the CTO of Creative Commons, runs the numbers of Nine Inch Nails’s Creative Commons download experiment and discovers that it only took the band two days to exceed the typical net from a massive-selling traditional CD release. The band sold $750,000 worth of “limited edition deluxe sets,” plus an unknowable further sum from sales of the regular CDs and merch.
LED Breakthrough...2X More Efficient than ANYTHING... →
Using a nano-crystaline coating, scientists at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey have created an LED that produces attractive white light while wasting next-to-no electricity . For every watt of light produced, about 300 lumens are visible to the human eye.
[from jarrodn] Penny Arcade! - Tribute to Gary... →
“Malaria kills one million people a year; baldness hasn’t killed anyone yet...”
– Bill Gates (During a presentation at the University of Chicago) - via ZDNet
Seth's Blog: The live music talk →
Seth Godin has posted a transcript of an interesting talk he gave to some music execs about the future of the music industry and the Internet. This is some good straight-shooting insight about what the music industry will never succeed at (suing fans) and what they could do instead (courting fans):
[from jarrodn] Open Flash Chart - Home →
February 2008
36 posts
Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni →
Some of us at my work have been trialing this awesome add-on to Outlook from Xobni (thanks Jarrod!). And now we find… Microsoft has been in acquisition discussions with email startup Xobni, we’ve confirmed through multiple sources. The company, which launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last year, currently offers an outlook plugin for Windows users that significantly improves the...