Archive for August, 2007


Squeezebox Review

Some products are truly innovative, and creates its own genre. The iPhone is one. The Squeezebox, reviewed here, is another.

What is it?
The squeezebox (version 3, white) is a network music streaming device. It stream music from a music server (you supplied, see later) wirelessly or via a wired home network. You normally hook it up […]

Moving Tips, updated

I moved seven times in the States along. I consider myself an expert in moving. I wrote up a list of tips for moving way back in 1996. Here is an updated version:
1. Get rid of more stuff.
If you are thinking about moving, start getting rid of your old stuff. Donate it. Freecycle it. Whatever […]

Apple Mail.app strangeness on multiple accounts’ sent mail

I switch between mac desktop, windows desktop, my smartphone, and pure web when reading and writing emails all day. Using IMAP, everything stays in sync — one of the few wonders of the Internet. However, on the mac running Mail.App, I couldn’t get my sent mail to store on the IMAP server for other to […]

Q-BA-MAZE

Marble runs are always fun. There are lots of different styles out there. Most are either the blocked based like cuboro, or rail based like quercetti, or combination of both like haba.
Now there is a new kid on the “block”. Q-Ba-Maze. It’s a plastic cube based system with a different. See the interview, and check […]

New Apple iMoive supports Panasonic AVCHD !

Hot off the announcement press. Finally we have the complete solution to a great home movie setup. The new Panasonic video recorders are great, but until now you cannot edit the movies. Upgrade to iMove 2008 and you can.
The HDC-SD1, for SD card, and the HDC-DX1, for record directly onto DVD, are video recorder with […]

OpenID

OpenID is a great implementation of a great idea. Vendor agnostic single sign-on with multiple persona may finally happen. For a good intro, watch Django’s Simon Wilson’s presentation here:

 
I am planning to add openID support to all my projects, www.kindneighbor.com and www.geardesk.com soon. Currently there are few sites that support it. But today I had […]