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January 2005

114 posts

MWSF- Best of Show- Griffin’s SmartDeck

Griffin's SmartDeck Intelligent Cassette Adapter for iPod won a Best of Show award at MWSF. SmartDeck allows users to control their iPod using the built in controls of their cassette player. Using patent pending sensing technology, the SmartDeck determines which commands the cassette player sends to the iPod. SmartDeck is more than just a cassette adapter for iPod; it achieves

Was it a full moon or something last night

I am sitting here at the desk. It's 1156 pm Hawaiian Standard time and my damn Instant Messenger is going nuts. I am telling you folks people are fired up about podcasting. I have never in my life seen so much buzz. People are not sleeping, folks that tells me they are thinking a great deal. It's wild, my wife

My Great MacWorld Adventure, Day 4: A Tourist View

Everyone told me I was crazy to spend the whole week in San Francisco and not take in the sights. So, not wanting to be call crazy, I took the day off. My wife and I went sight-seeing. I will share the pics with you while I write up a few articles on the new items I found at MacWorld.

Dave Winer has the most amazing post!

Once you read the link I want you to think about who the heck he may be talking about. I can only conclude it is either Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. These are the only two people that it can be. I am speculating, being he has been on RSS/XML rant that it has something to do with that. If

Technorati Launches Tag Searches

This is a pretty cool option but beware the results for normal searches result in 1000's of results. [Technorati]

Cassini-Huygens Coverage

Today another success for NASA and also the European Space Agency. Ongoing coverage at these websites. [www.jpl.nasa.gov] [Cassini-Hyugens News] [saturn.jpl.nasa.gov]

Huygens data

We have a probe on the ground on Titan. Great coverage here. Science is being realyed to Cassini [2020hindsight.org] Part of the Press Briefing in the extended entry, Thanks to 2020Hindsight.org "To ESA director general: The morning was good. The afternoon was better. Morning engineering success. Afternoon science success. (Applause) So we are the first visitors of Titan. Scientific data

Geek News Central Podcast #30 2005-1-14

I have a great show for you tonight. The new gear really makes a difference when it comes to getting the show done quickly with no post recording processing. Best $109.00 I have spent this year. GeekNewsCentral-2005-1-14.mp3 GeekNewsCentral-2005-1-14.wma GeekNewsCentral-2005-1-14.ogg GeekNewsCentral-2005-1-14.torrent (MP3) Deep Impact NASA Big Bang Ripples! Probe will be on Titan this morning! The Yahoo problem and Dan Gillmor

Marqui CMS styles setup and it multi format publishing capability

Marqui is a Content Management System that has paid me along with a number of webloggers to take a hard look at their product and tell them what we think. They have told us write and say as we wish. Being I am not a graphic artist I wanted to see how difficult it would be to alter the page

Opportunity finds interesting Rock

The Mars Rover Opportunity found a rock that is exhibiting metal type properties. They are going to take a closer look we will keep you advised. [Space.com]

Microsoft ready to launch RSS Aggreator

It has been obvious to me that Microsoft made a commitment to RSS for a while. If the eWeek article is correct we will see something from them shortly more than likely integrated with MSN. [eWeek]

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