I’ve had link posts in my RSS feed for a while, but people just coming to the site will miss those. So to get these links onto the actual webpage, I used the experimental del.icio.us ‘Daily Blog Posting’ feature, found in your del.icio.us settings page.

The formatting didn’t look so great. Too much spacing – probably [...]

Windows Longhorn concept video – does Vista live up to it? – Download Squad

There were some great features slated for Vista (was Longhorn) – Where’d they all go?

There are some good lessons to take from Richard’s story of the death of a Web 2.0 company: Actual lessons from Kiko

Paul Graham thinks you’re screwed if Google comes into your space. I don’t agree. Neither does David at 37Signals. You will need to differentiate and play harder and smarter though. Just do it better. [...]

Just an aside thought – del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites should add a way to state where you found a link. This would allow some interesting possibilities such as direction analytics of a URL and how news sites influence social networks. Maybe bookmarking sites other than del.icio.us do offer this? I’ve really only played [...]

A big missing piece of blogging is was how on earth does one keep track of all the URLs of blogs you commented on.

I’ve been using co.mments.com the last month or so and it’s been working great. It makes this task smooth once you add a bookmarket to your browser and subscribe to the [...]

Found a great story over at OS News about GEOS. I used to use GEOS on my C64 in the late 80’s for word-processing (geoWrite) and graphics (geoPaint), despite its slowness compared to text based environments. Copy/paste and fonts that looked like what would be printed out.. oh baby! I remember just fiddling with the [...]

Howstuffworks –

Dell and the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently announced that 4.1 million laptop batteries could short-circuit under the right conditions, causing an explosion or a fire. The massive recall isn’t the first to hit the computer industry – HP and Apple both recalled laptop batteries between 2000 and 2006. But [...]

I was at WWDC! .... and still in Australia.



Keith too. Thumbs up from him.

Thanks Matthew Tonkin for hooking us up

Matt held up his Macbook Pro so we could see around.

We waved to people standing in line, and a couple people waved back!... ahhhh, technology!

New app? Update to an app? With Panic input?

Either way, the prelude to the release of whatever-it-is, has some great pixel animations. Worth checking out: IconFactory.com

One of the many LOL moments – Guy walking out of a Portable Toilet:

Over the last week, I’ve had a Black MacBook on loan from Apple to run some app tests. It was nice to be able to live with one for a week as well, and get a feel for it. Here are my stream-of-thought points.

Good:

    Nice size and weight  – feels bit less of a commitment [...]