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Stream iTunes to your PSP
1 Comment Published April 18th, 2006 in Apple, Internet, Podcasting, Shorts, Software, Technology, WirelessSony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a very popular device and has sold a few million units, but when compared to Apple’s iPod, the PSP lacks storage space. Luckily, the PSP has a built in WiFi card to make up for this disadvantage. With a few simple steps, all of which are included in this tutorial, [...]
How Mac Geniuses find out about new Apple products…
Closed Published April 16th, 2006 in Apple, Shorts, TechnologyEveryone asks about new products. When is the new PowerBook going to come out? Is Apple every going to release a PDA? When I answer that I don’t know, I’ve actually been called a liar. Bluntly. Sadly, it’s not even a rare occurrence. The truth is, no one in the store knows anything. Sometimes we [...]
Firefox goes Universal
Closed Published April 16th, 2006 in Apple, Internet, Shorts, Software, TechnologyI know that many Intel Mac Firefox lovers have been dying for a Universal version of Firefox. Firefox is a great browser, but on the Mac, I think it is just too slow, so I use Safari. On the Intel Macs it would have been even worse, because of Firefox haveing to use Rosetta. But [...]
XP on MacBook Pro Benchmarks - looking good!
Closed Published April 12th, 2006 in Apple, Microsoft, Noteworthy, PC, Shorts, TechnologyIt’s not that I’m mulling over a platform switch—rather, this XP overload is part of Macworld Lab’s efforts to see how Microsoft’s operating system performs on Apple hardware now that software exists that enables you to boot into XP on an Intel-based Mac. With the help from our sister publication, PC World, we’ve been running [...]
You Know You Go to a Tech School When…
Closed Published April 11th, 2006 in Random Stuff, Shorts, Technology, WirelessI don’t know what a typical college campus is like. Everything I’ve experienced at Georgia Tech is apparently not normal for a university lacking “tech” in the title. I’ve compiled a few things I’ve noticed around school for your enjoyment on this slow news day. Here we go. You’d be surprised at how much I’m [...]
Hacking Google Analytics…
Closed Published April 11th, 2006 in Internet, Noteworthy, Shorts, TechnologyMost of you will have at least one friend who is obsessed with the web stats program. That may very well be me. If you want to have some fun with said friend, read on.
It turns out that someone had copied the source code of my Google Maps housing project and was hosting it on [...]
Get AppZapper for free!
Closed Published April 3rd, 2006 in Apple, Noteworthy, Shorts, Software, TechnologyAppZapper 1.3 was released today. The uninstaller Apple forgot has teamed up with MacZOT.com to run a special promotion for the release of their latest version featuring the new QuickZap™
AppZapper 1.3 is FREE! (or will be if we get at least 259 bloggers to mention it)
For each blog that posts a link to MacZOT.com, they’ll [...]
Even Microsoft Designers Have Problem with IE
Closed Published March 30th, 2006 in Internet, Microsoft, Shorts, Technology, Web 2.0Microsoft Connect, home of Microsoft’s betas including Vista has some interesting CSS values. The first line in the .css is commented “fix for the IE 1px-off margin error”, followed by a value called “.StupidIEMarginHack “. [digg]
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Try out Google’s new search interface (hack!)
Closed Published March 28th, 2006 in Internet, Noteworthy, Shorts, Software, Technology, Web 2.0Awhile back I posted about the new search results interface Google was supposedly testing. I can definitely confirm that today. This blog post describes how to set a new cookie in Firefox that will force Google to display the new results page for you. Since the instructions are a little off (and took me some [...]
You can’t get more simple than the Galvanic Skin Response [GSR] sensor. It is just a cut 9V LEGO motor wire and some aluminum foil wrapped around your fingers with tape. I was inspired by talks by Mindfest panelists Karen Wilkinson and Mike Petrich who talked about using this type of sensor. The theory is [...]
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