There is a poplular address book / social site called Plaxo which attempts to sync your information on your PC or Mac with your social network. It seems pretty cool as a social network, but I don’t want everyone I know on earth to reside in my address book and phone. I don’t want to [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Plaxo and MobileMe: Don’t Do It!
July 18, 2008Battery Conditioning for the iPod
July 16, 2008A little while back, I wrote an article about calibrating batteries for laptops. As most of us know, it’s a good idea to exercise our rechargeable batteries in all our devices. Well, I have a black iPod classic which has monster battery life, but it gets very little use. It’s usually connected to power since [...]
An iPhone Non-Weekend
July 13, 2008If you haven’t been following iPhone news this weekend, you don’t know that it’s been crazy. The first day it went on sale was an activation nightmare. AT&T’s insistence that the iPhone be activated in-store caused long delays and Apples activation systems were hit hard by the world-wide simultaneous (by that I mean 8 a.m. [...]
Firefox 3 Easter Egg
July 7, 2008If you’re running Firefox 3, there’s a cute little Easter egg. Type “about:robots” in the address field and see what you get.
Robots aren’t the ‘droids I was looking for.