Mar 7th, 2007
by hueland.
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If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!Filed under: Software
The “Batman’s utility belt” of image catalog tools, iView Media Pro, has been patched to version 3.1.3 — mostly bug fixes for the app that fills a cross-platform niche underneath heavy DAM hitters like [...]
Mar 7th, 2007
by hueland.
Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: DVRs
Yeah, that Series3 HD recorder is great and all, but it’s about time TiVo started talking about an HD DVR with even a semblance of competitive pricing — $800 + service just isn’t cutting it anymore, especially with Windows Vista’s CableCARD support looking oh-so-promising. Luckily, TiVo CEO Tom Rogers [...]
Mar 7th, 2007
by hueland.
My Opera, one of the first proto-blogging systems, has now been extended to work well with both Opera Mini and Opera Mobile, enabling text and photo blogging directly from your mobile browser. Extra support includes chat groups and widget management. Opera's press release is below.
Originally Syndicated via RSS from All About Symbian - News
Mar 7th, 2007
by hueland.
A friend of mine at AOL emailed today to suggest I take a look at the new AOL email beta, called Cayman. An overview of the new features was published in late February on the AOL email blog, and the product itself was released last Friday. New and existing users can sign up [...]
Mar 7th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Software, Podcasts
The TUAW Podcast is upon us, and for #21 I decided on a screencast of that NetNewsWire 3 beta sneak peek released a couple weeks ago. The new version is a slick piece of work with a lot of nice new features, and I go over all the good stuff in just [...]
Mar 7th, 2007
by hueland.
CoRank launches out of private beta this evening. It’s best described as a cross between Digg and Bluedot. It has a Digg-like user interface where users view stories, but by default you are only shown stories bookmarked by other users you’ve added as friends.
To see the whole feature list, watch the tour, here. I like [...]
Mar 7th, 2007
by hueland.
In our final 3GSM 2007 coverage, Rafe talks to Zi Corporation, creator of a number of UI enhancements, in AAS podcast number 16.
Originally Syndicated via RSS from All About Symbian - News
Mar 7th, 2007
by hueland.
Skype rolled out Skype Prime this evening, a new service that lets people charge for Skype voice and video calls. Users set the fees they want to charge, on a per-minute or per-call basis. Skype charges the paying side via their Skype credit, and then pays the money out, minus a 30% fee, via paypal [...]
Mar 7th, 2007
by hueland.
Home multimedia streaming devices are all the rage, and manufacturers are falling over themselves to create something to fit
the category. Here’s another one: the Logitech® Wireless DJ™ Music System. This one doesn’t require a home network.
You plug a little transceiver into a USB port on your computer, install some software, then plug a receiver into [...]
Mar 7th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Features, How-tos, Productivity, Tips and tricks
Along with Quicksilver, TextExpander is one of my must-have Mac utilities. TextExpander is a “snippet” utility that will automatically paste in content based on user defined abbreviations. For instance, I have “bc” set to expand to “because.” However, the pasted text can be much longer (e.g. “sig” becomes [...]