Tools & Gadgets & Gizmos to Drool for
If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!Danish website Mobilsiden.dk has a video interview (in English) with the designers of the Nokia 5500, Rachel Sleight and Marja-Leena Nurmela. Product designers rarely explain their decisions in public, and it's interesting to hear the philosophies [...]
Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: Hardware, Apple Professional
Even the most rabid fan of Apple has to concede that the company doesn’t pitch very aggressively to the enterprise customer. The Xserve typically doesn’t get any time in the spotlight - not even at WWDC - and Apple doesn’t exactly build a super low-end Mac that’s [...]
Freebase launches today, a new startup that intends to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. If that last bit sounds familiar, it’s because it’s actually Google’s mission, but Freebase seems intent on doing it, too.
Like Google Base, Freebase is a massive database. The purpose of the database is to [...]
Filed under: Odds and ends, TUAW Tip
Here at TUAW we’re all about the public service. Really. We would hate for you to be late for brunch on Sunday, so once again let us remind you that Daylight Saving Time starts in most of the US & Canada this weekend. This year, thanks to regulatory changes, [...]
I read with interest that MySpace will be launching a news site in the coming months. Given the feature set (dynamically aggregating real-time news to create focused and topical news pages, and allowing users to rate and comment on every news item and even submit and write their own stories), this sounds like they’ve finally [...]
Filed under: Software
Snerdware last week updated the iCal/Exchange middleware package Groupcal to version 3.80, adding one-way file sync to the feature list, among other enhancements. For Mac users in MS Exchange shops, the combination of Groupcal/iCal for calendaring, Mail for email, and Snerdware’s AddressX for Global Address List sync provide a workable alternative to Entourage [...]
Ricky, over at his Symbian Guru blog, has got his hands on a production Nokia N75. I'm rather jealous, it has to be said, I'd been trying to grab and review this for a while. It seems it's going to be USA only, sadly. Still, there's a lot of good N75 info in Ricky's review, [...]
Are you a real geeky geek? Know what a circuit board is? Want to show others that you know that? And that you’re still
business savvy enough to walk around with business cards? Then this is a match made in heaven. This business card case is made
from real circuit boards, so you very likely will have [...]
After Condé Nast, owner of Wired and other magazines/websites, acquired Y Combinator funded Reddit, people took notice. This wasn’t just some quirky incubator where they gave college students a few bucks to kick start their new companies (although it is that, too - their standard deal is $5000 + $5000 per founder, for 6%ish of [...]
Filed under: Software
The first Universal Binary version of Audiocorder is out, giving voice-activated/unattended recording capabilities to the Intelians among us. You can program your copy of Audiocorder to start taping on a schedule, or when the ambient audio level rises above a threshold. You could even tape off the modem input on some models; and [...]
Appulo.us - free software for iPhones
