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05/24 Sharing a keyboard, mouse and multiple screens — Check out Synergy: > “Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It’s intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).” Cool! Technorati Tags: interesting
05/21 Dowbrigade and Bridge BlogBridge — Just a quick note of the very nice mention of BlogBridge by almost-famous Dowbrigade blog by the incredibly prolific Michael Feldman. > (Emphasis mine, throughout) Blog Bridge is the amazing new RSS reader and aggregator from Pito Salas. Sure, it m...
05/19 [BLOGBRIDGE] BlogBridge tracks unread articles! — One of the cool things about BlogBridge’s (free) companion service, is that keeps track for you what you have and have not read, *even if you are using BlogBridge on more than one computer! * In other words, please sign up for the service, and set your synchronization options the way you want them ...
05/18 What happens when your car’s (software) crashes? — Just an amusing little bit from the Wall Street Journal about the Toyota Prius: > “Some buyers of Toyota MotorCorp.’s Prius gas-electric hybrid cars are complaining that their vehicles are stalling or shutting down at highway-driving speeds, a problem Toyota attributes to software problems in th...
05/17 New Radio Show: Open Source — Welcome back Chris Lydon! Those of you who have lived in the Boston area for a while (and who are NPR listeners) will recognize the name. Chris has been on local and national TV and radio, and a couple of years ago did some really early, innovative p...
05/16 Eating your young — I came across this bit: > “Are we going to be a player in VoIP? Absolutely. Are we going to be prepared to disrupt our own business? Absolutely, Why? Because if not, somebody else will.” ([Techdirt](http://techdirt.com/articles/20050516/00322...
05/10 New BlogBridge web site, including a blog — Good morning sports-fans. We recently totally revamped the BlogBridge web site. Take a look, and let me know what you think. Importantly, it now includes a group blog where the BlogBridge team posts bits of interest to anyone interested in the project. We have started a new series of posts there called: “Did you know”where every day we (try to) post a short article describing a feature or capability of interest to users. Check it out! Technorati Tags: blogbridge, UI
05/09 Link to Susan Senator! — Mpwacover300 Susan Senator has published a book: “Making Peace with Autism”: > “It’s her memoir about our family, and how we have dealt with the autism th...
05/09 Cool iTunes trick — I like to come across music from my collection of CDs that I haven’t listened to in a while. Here’s what I do: - I create a “Smart Playlist” called, for example, Folk – Unplayed - The “match query” includes Genere is Folk and Play Count is 0 As I play this list, it gets continually shorter as each song is played and removed from the list. Riff on this technique – other genres? Played once only? etc. Neat. Technorati Tags: cool, itunes
05/07 Machine translation: Funny! — The highly anticipated Mac OS X “Tiger” arrived in my hot little hands, and I’ve spent most of the day installing it (2 hours) and getting everything to work again (6 hours and counting.) One of the highly touted new features is “Dashboard” which is a “not quite as good as” knock-off of [Konfa...
05/05 LinkedIn: Highly connected? — Picture 1-1 Interesting: I can reach 1.1 Million people through my 125 connections on LinkedIn, and there are a total of 2.1 million people registered. So I can reach one out of two. My statistics are not good enough to analyze the significance of that, but it is a bit surprising. Technorati Tags: interesting, linkedin
05/04 Great new OS X Software Releases — Two of my all time favorite Mac OS X applications just came out with new releases: Adium Xis a beautiful multi-IM-service client. It’s based on GAIM but with a true OS X user interface. For PC users, it’s kind of like Trillian but nicer! They just came out with a...