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Wed - December 1, 2004FEED...ME....NetNewsWire has completely spoiled me when it
comes to getting my news, Yahoo Groups postings, and even FedEx package tracking at a glance.
So I definitely agree with Jon here, especially when it comes to the banking. (Ever been accidentally overdrawn on your checking account because of a transaction you didn't know was coming? I have. Not fun.) Darrin proposes an interesting idea for TV listings via RSS. Right now, I use Excite's TV Favorites page to track my favorite shows, and it works pretty well. But, of course, I have to go and check it manually. What I'd actually prefer is a program like the now-abandoned tvmenu, where I could select my favorite shows and have the program automatically find instances of those shows (using something like XMLTV), and alert me when they come on. Give me lots of notification capabilites including the option to sync it as a calendar (with alarms) to my iPod, let it control an eyeTV, Formac Studio TVR, or AlchemyTV card, wrap it all up in a simple and intuitive interface, and you'd have one killer way to manage your TV viewing. Are you listening, Delicious Monster folks? I would fork over $40 or more for something like this that worked well. Posted at 08:40 AM Read More <angelic music here>
My new baby! A dual 1.8Ghz Power Mac G5, to call my very own! I would compare it to the PowerBook G3, or that iMac that I've been using since the PowerBook started to die on me, but really, there is no comparison. Absolutely and totally blows it away. The specs: 2 x 1.8Ghz G5 processors 512MB RAM 160GB HD SuperDrive ATI Radeon 9600XT graphics card (sweet for gaming!) AirPort Extreme (futureproofing) Bluetooth Got it from the Apple Store for Education for $2100 plus tax. Rounded it out with a Samsung 17" flat CRT from Sam's Club for $110. Only problem is I can tell sometimes that, under certain conditions, it's starved for RAM. (Virtual PC, mainly.) Well, that, and I'm going to owe my Grandma for quite a while to pay back the loan. :-) I've had The Monolith (as I have dubbed it) crunching Folding@Home packets in it's off time. Really cranks 'em out, and it's interesting to hear the fans speed up as the processors crank into high gear. Posted at 02:34 AM Read More Sat - September 4, 2004Mine's bigger!!Jon's got his iStick,
and as soon as FedEx gets it here, I'll have mine.
512MB, USB2 for $57 ($54 now) with free shipping from NewEgg.com. (Yes, I'm gloating. Why do you ask?) Posted at 09:25 PM Read More Sun - June 27, 2004Yet more gadgetlustIf these specs are for real, and it's going to come
bundled with The Missing Sync v4 (like the rumors say), then
I may just have to start carrying a Palm again.
Posted at 01:56 AM Read More Sat - April 17, 2004I'm phidgety with excitement already!Some serious geek-cool going on
here.
I can only think of about a skazillion things I could do with a system like that! Hey, Phidget folks (Pholks?)! All I need is an API to hook into this stuff with AppleScript and you can put me down for a Starter Kit #2, pronto! (Thanks to Chairboy for his post over at /. that tipped me off to this) Posted at 12:08 AM Read More Fri - March 26, 2004I AM A PHP GOD!I've seen various spoofs of the terror alert level system that
pull from the DHS website to stay
updated.
Naturally, I wanted my own. But I couldn't find one that was easy to install/implement, or easy for me to understand, for that matter. So after much PHP writing, re-writing, wailing, gnashing of teeth, etc., I finally cobbled together a PHP script that works for me. Here it is in action, with my own graphics from Dragon Tales*. So, now, in the interest of giving something back, I release that script to the world: terror.php.zip OK, so it's neither terribly efficient nor fast, but it's simply constructed and it works! The customization should be fairly easy for anyone with a basic knowledge of HTML. If you want to distribute it, please link to me to show where you got it from. Otherwise, it's open. Credits: Thanks to Phill Kenoyer for posting his original PHP script that I swiped the XML parser out of. Thanks to Oscar Hills for the idea to use preg_match to determine what the status is instead of stabbing in the dark with '=='. Thanks to my bud Dan Pourhadi for use of a hundred KB or so on his web server to run this. Thanks to TheCodingMonkeys for SubEthaEdit, with it's rocking syntax highlighting for PHP (and 15 other languages, too). *(I was also thinking of doing one with Pokemon...how does "alert level Pikachu" sound?) Posted at 01:19 AM Read More Mon - December 8, 2003Wed - November 12, 2003Online text editorFound this neat little site the other day:
Pote.com It's a neato little online text editor that allows you to store and edit text files on their server from any web browser. You can upload your own files, run spell check, do word counts, and so on. Pretty cool. Posted at 11:29 PM Read More Mon - November 3, 2003Why I created this topicSharing one's digital cameras and scanners over
Rendezvous and the Internet using Image Capture, including taking pictures/scans
remotely?
Duuuuuuuuuuuude!! This is killer! This is the kind of feature that needs to be shouted from the rooftops! Broadcast on every TV network! Skywritten over major cities! Posted at 01:16 AM Read More Sat - October 18, 2003Tue - October 7, 2003Mr. Koeppen rules the universe.My new little toy, courtesy of Mr.
Koeppen.
Yes, Petunia, that is a LaserWriter 8500. Dontcha just love free stuff? Posted at 08:52 PM Read More |
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