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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Seuss
June 22nd 2007
Tags: Amazing Tech, Microsoft

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I Actually Said ‘Wow’ About a Microsoft Product

I'm typically one of those who is underwhelmed by what Microsoft offers. There isn't really anything "sexy" about Windows, Office, SharePoint, etc. There are two recent products that I've seen that actually make me interested in what Microsoft is doing -- in more than just the how-are-they-screwing-up-now kind ...
June 6th 2007
Tags: Amazing Tech, Apple

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VMWare Fusion Unity

If you have heard about Parallels for running a virtualized OS within Mac OS X (Intel) chances are you have heard about VMWare Fusion.  Parallels has a feature called Coherence that pulls the virtualized applications out of the "boxed in" interface, and allows them to "mingle" with the OS X ...
February 20th 2007
Tags: Amazing Tech

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MIT = Making Incredible Things

When I hear the phrase "Researchers at MIT..." I know I'm about to read/hear about something that is potentially mind blowing. What I just saw at TreeHugger was along those lines. Researchers at MIT are building a prototype of a lightweight electric vehicle that can be cheaply mass-produced, rented by ...

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January 23rd 2008
Tags: Tools, Web 2 Comments

MindMeister Revisited

It's been a while since I talked here about MindMeister (11 months), and about six months since I've seriously used it. In that time they have made some pretty sweet changes. The big announcement in November was their release of MindMeister Offline. Built on Google Gears, MindMeister Offline allows ...
January 16th 2008
Tags: Links No Comments

Link Harvest: January 1 - January 16

Here are my links: Can You Run It?  Can you computer run that video game you've been eyeing?  Windows required. OpenLDAP + Samba Domain Controller On Ubuntu 7.10 - A great howto guide. ScreenSteps - Screenshot-based documentation, made easier. GCal In Your Firefox Sidebar
January 13th 2008
Tags: Firefox, Tools, Web One Comment

Tiddle Wherever You Are

A short while ago, I was talking with a co-worker about personal productivity (i.e. to-do) systems.  There are so many systems out there, and each with their own spin on GTD.  He showed me one that is a spin on the TiddlyWiki system:  Tiddlyspot.Tiddlyspot is a hosted version of TiddlyWiki, with a twist. ...
January 2nd 2008
Tags: Apple, Linux, Tools, Windows One Comment

Multi-protocol IM Clients Done Right

There are a lot of options out there for the instant messaging crowd. There are probably three multi-protocol clients available for every one single-protocol (standalone) client. There are two related multi-protocol clients, that work pretty much across the board on the three major flavors of operating systems, that ...
December 21st 2007
Tags: Firefox, Safari, Tips 'n Tricks No Comments

FF to Safari, pt. 2 - Import Bookmarks

One thing that I was dreading about this Safari-for-a-week thing was having to manually copy over my bookmarks from Firefox.  There's not much worse than wasting a bunch of time doing copy, paste, repeat.  A little Google search, and we have a winner!If you've got Safari 2.0 (or higher) you've got import and ...

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