Put Down Your #2 Pencils And Use Your .EDU Email To Get Free TimesSelect
Check out this post from Consumerist: > Use your .edu email to access TimesSelect, the subscription section of the New York Times. It’s free f...
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March 2007
Interesting: Best Buy Still Using Its Secret Website
Check out this post from Consumerist: > uy has confirmed the existence of a second "secret" website that looks identical to BestBuy.com, but has different prices and i...
Read more →Interesting ideas about using iTunes more effectively
Check out this post from Apple Gazette: > 
TUAW points us toward a really cool iTunes plugin that does something very simple, and very well. This is really useful. (from: DockArt – Change your iTunes icon to Album Art)
[GEEKY] The Most Popular Anchor Phrases for Your Site
Useful and interesting information from Google for Webmasters. Chec out this post from Google Operating System: > Google Webmaster Central shows the most popular 100 phrases used by other sites to link to your site. If you go to Statistics / Page analysis, you’ll find a list of anchor phrases, obtained by removing punctuations. Google’s algorithms use those keywords to understand a page better. (from: The Most Popular Anchor Phrases for Your Site)
RSS: What’s in it for you?
I am participating in the “Institute of Management Consultants” New England Chapter program tonight, entitled “Help prospects find you (and your clients) using Web 2.0.” For those who might be interested, here are the notes I prepared for my part of the show. “RSS: What’s In it For You”
Costco rental car discount
I’ve been a member of Costco for years. Yeah, you always buy more stuff there than you intended, but it’s so much fun! I uncovered today that Costco also has great discounts for travel, rental cars in particular. If you are not part of a big corporate program, call Costco Travel, ask for your rental car company, and you get connected to their ‘Costco Desk’ (is it a real desk?). Anyway, the point is I got a real nice discount over what the default Hertz web siteprice or Kayak deal was. Just a LifeHack for you.
Great set of Mac Tips
If you are a Mac user, you might find a hint or three here to help your computer’s performance. Check out “The Efficient Mac User”
Transparent screens
These are really funny and clever: Transparent Screens
Daylife’s Universe: Eye Candy or Brain Food?
Daylife is a new news oriented web site that came onto the scene a little while back to a lot of fanfare. I’ve used it on and off and it’s ok. It’s certainly a lot prettier to look at than things like Google News. Daylife’s emphasis on d...
Read more →[GEEKY] Firefox angst
On Mac, I’ve been using only FireFox for a while now. But lately I’ve seen some things that have made me nervous. More than once I’ve seen FireFox peg the CPU for no apparent reason. Recently I had bad experiences with the latest latest release of the del.icio.us add-in. So I decided to scan for the...
Read more →Dave DeWalt leaves EMC
I guess that many of you who read this blog are eRoom, Documentum and EMC alums so you’d be interested in reading what John Newton, co-founder of Documentum has to say about the departure of Dave DeWalt from EMC: > “[snip…] Being a co...
Read more →Colection of Mac open source apps
A handy list: “Open Source Apps on Mac from Linux and Open Source”
Robot Ethics
Isaac Asimov was a visonary don’t you think? > “South Korea’s obsession with technology has led it to consider what may be the first government-backed ethical code for robots.” (from The Telegraph)
[Tivo Owners] Who Killed TivoToGo?
I am a die-hard Tivo user. Yesterday I stumbled across mention that TivoTogo now worked on Macs, so the promise of watching Tivo’d content on my iPod led me to waste a couple of hours trying to get it to work. I am not sure yet, but it looks like TivoTogo is disabled on Tivo Series 3. It’s kind of h...
Read more →Our software sucks
Dave Winer says it well (as usual): “Here’s another reason why WordPress is so popular — they belong to Ye Old Schoole of Shitty Software …snip]” (Read “WordPress is shitty software”)
AA Flight 62 – A terrorist probe?
Really interesting article which asks whether a recent incident on an Americann Airlines flight in fact was a terrorist dry run: > “[…snip] This is not meant to scare, but it probably will. Consider yourself informed and warned that the threat is real. This crew reported that they were not prepared that something of this nature could be happening to them. […snip]” (from “American Airlines Flight 62: A terrorist probe?”)
[GEEKY] New FireFox add-in for del.icio.us close but not yet
I was glad to see that the FireFox add-in for del.icio.us was revised to combine the features of the ‘old one’ with the features of the ‘new one’. That’s good. Unfortunately it looks to me like the new and improved plug-in is still a bit buggy, sending FireFox into a tailspin – window activation weirdnesses, apparent loops hogging the CPU. I look forward to the next rev, because the concept is right on.
Slim down your wallet with Just One Club Card
This looks kind of neat – check out this post from Lifehacker: > Web site Just One Club Card lets you condense up to 8 different discount club cards onto one front-and-ba...
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Google Maps traffic information
One more reason to Love Google! Check out this post from Lifehacker: ** "Google Maps has just rolled out an exciting new traffic feature, that provides traffic data for major interstates and freeways." (from**: Google Maps traffic information
What in the world??? John Edwards Second Life HQ vandalized.
Check out this post from John Edwards ’08 Blog: News: ** "Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second Life users, some sporting "Bush ’08" tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life HQ [snip..] … I witnessed this event, taking names and photos, including the owners of the pictures." (from**: John Edwards Second Life HQ vandalized.)