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Some good mac applications referenced in this post . I particularly like Service Scrubber (never could really find a use for that Service menu, sorry!) and CocoaMySql which looks like a very nicely done graphical UI for MySql databases. Check out this post from Lifehacker: The best twenty Mac apps you’ve never heard of
Check out this post from Between the Lines: > [snip…] “Yesterday Amazon’s S3 service suffered an outage that lasted more than long enough to miss the company’s self-imposed goal of 99.99% availability, at least fo...
Read more →If you need this tip, it will save you a lot of time. 99% likely though, you don’t need it and it will read as complete gibberish. But I feel compelled to share it because it’s totally obscure and I just spent 2 hours trying to figure it out. Problem: - Eclipse 3.2.1 just ceased to be able to gr...
Read more →[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_K7sgTYuDE] Technorati Tags: cool
Notwithstanding the fact that Mike Arrington, an investor, doesn’t like DayLife too much, I just spend a few minutes looking, and I think it’s very very nice. I’d say it’s definitely worth a look. The other investors seem to like it better. Ironic state of affa...
Read more →Check out this post from Ajaxian: > "Dheera Venkatraman has released Fooplot, a new website that plots any function, and supports Google Maps-style panning around. Fooplot is currently usi...
Read more →I am enhancing the backup methodology here at BlogBridge Enterprises and was selecting a new 500Gb external hard disk. One choice I made was whether to get an Ethernet, i.e. network attached, hard disk or connect one directly to my Mac via USB-2 or FireWire. Admittedly being too lazy to...
Read more →Check out this post from Freakonomics Blog: ** There’s an interesting [news brief in today’s N.Y. Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/business/01drill.html?ex=1325307600&en=3b3245c625ca32b...
Read more →Check out this post from Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger: > As a comparison, I have three PCs. Two of which have never crashed in their entire lifetimes. And I use my PCs nearly around the clock. I have two Macs too and haven’t seen this problem on those. (from: Apple rebooting problem hits us…) Huh? two PCs who haven’t crashed in their entire lifetimes? Must be something that happens only at Microsoft (yeah, I know he’s not there any more.) Or he got those two PCs for Christmas. 2006.
When I was a kid I remember reading about this pattern. I never knew it was called a, what, Analemma??? Anyway, Check out this post from Good Math, Bad Math: ** By way of the [a...
Read more →A million years ago I used Lotus Notes … I think it was version 3 and 4. I believe that it ran on Mac even then so I am not sure what the big news is. But look at this screen shot. It looks more similar than different to the old Lotus Notes. And among the Mac congesenti there’s always a lot of...
Read more →If you’re a blogger or read blogs you might have come across the debate, such as it is, about "pay per post." Frankly I’ve not paid much attention to it other than noting the links go by without my clicking on them. But Joel’s stuff is often good. Check out [this post](http://www.joelonsoft...
Read more →If you keep up, you may have heard abou this. A new search engine coming from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Check out this post from Mashable!for a pretty good update: > “Wikipedia foun...
Read more →A bit of a debate is developing regarding Microsoft’s recent patent for (and here’s where the editorializing starts) "RSS". It’s only a slightly interesting question which is why I won’t pursue it, save to say that patents are very technical and narrow so it’s easy to jump to the wrong concl...
Read more →I’ve been tagged in the new fangled blog tag game, and am now honor bound to reveal 5 things about me that you probably don’t know yet. - The “R” in R. Pito Salas stands for Ralph - My ancestors have been in Curaçao for over...
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This is too bad. Daybreak was one of the new shows I was enjoying (not ‘must-see-tv but still entertaining.) It was basically “Groundhog Day meets ’24’. Anyway, check out this post from Lost Remote: > The new A...
Read more →Check out this post from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): > Filed under: Software, Stocking Stuffers Almost a dozen companies are offering a 20% off sale until Christmas. Rogue Amoeba, Bare Bones, Potion Factory, Unsanity and more. You’ll find a full list of participating developers at the MacSanta site. (from: MacSanta: 20% off popular Mac Apps) For all you mac users out there 🙂
I just thought this post was interesting and curious — thanks Dowbrigade News > FUSHUN, China — Bao Xishun, the world’s tallest man, reaches in to retrieve objects from the sto...
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