Archive for July, 2005
Friday, July 29th, 2005
Griffin Technology
Damn these guys are so cool. Must be a blast to work at this place.
iFM integrates FM radio tuning, recording and remote control functionality to the iPod, all in a tiny aluminum enclosure.
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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
Ultimate Exposure Computer
I almost didn't post this because he has pretty restrictive rules about the use of his information, but I thought this might be handy to budding photographers with questions about f/stop this and aperture that.
Imagine an exposure computer so advanced that it uses your eyes as a sensor. ...
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Yahoo Buys Maker of 'Widget' Applications
Um. Wow. Apple should have done this but now Windows users will enjoy many of the same features as Mac users have with Dashboard.
Hoping to pave a new path to its popular Web site, Yahoo Inc. has acquired Konfabulator, a tiny software maker that ...
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
Spymac :: World :: Magazine
It is cool that Apple continues to hire talented people like this. This is a fabulous application.
Matas is the designer of Delicious Library, the successful media cataloging software that won several awards, including an Apple Design Award for 'Best Mac OS X User Experience.'
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
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Numark busts out iDJ dueling iPod mixer - Engadget - www.engadget.com
This is just silly.
Alright mixmasters, turns out that Numark dueling iPod DJ
mixer we peeped back in April is indeed not vaporware. Numark will be announcing tomorrow the iDJ mixing console
for iPod as part of their summer 2005 product lineup
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
3quarksdaily: 'Pakistan's girl wonder' is likely the youngest certified Microsoft expert
Sitting down for a personal meeting with Bill Gates this week, 10-year-old Arfa Karim Randhawa asked the Microsoft founder why the company doesn't hire people her age.
Posted in Computers, Microsoft | 1 Comment »
Monday, July 18th, 2005
BeerBot
I know John & Chris through FIRST Robotics. They made a pretty cool robot .. now to go buy some VEX kits & make my own. Hooray for laziness, beer, and robots.
This robot was specifically requested by RadioShack for a media event. The challenge given was: "design a ...
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Thursday, July 14th, 2005
Optimus keyboard
This thing looks really awesome.. I wonder how much it would be to buy..
Optimus is good for any layouts%u2014Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabian%u2014and so on to infinity: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, mathematical functions.
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Thursday, July 14th, 2005
The iPod shuffleboard USB 2.0 Keyboard - Engadget - www.engadget.com
Interesting keyboard idea. I'm not sure I'd want the shuffle sticking up like that. Seems like it might be a distraction.
Apple%u2019s recent, uh, heavy-handedness spooked them out of using the original name they had for this thing (which is ...
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
Ebbers sentenced to 25 years in prison - Business - MSNBC.com
I know more than a few people who will be happy to hear this bit of news.
Weeping in court as he learned his fate, former WorldCom boss Bernard Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday for leading the ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
Turing machine
Cool LEGO creation.
Although it is composed of pretty simple capabilities, Turing argued that this simple machine could performed any computation, that is, could realize anything that results from operations. In 1950, he discussed that the mind is itself the results of operations (at the neural level) and thus is ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
ClickOnDetroit.com - News - College Student Dies While 'Car Surfing'
Not nearly as adventurous as external car driving, but just as stupid. (Can anyone find links about external car driving?)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Kentucky officials said Tuesday a university student died after falling off a car as he was trying to ...
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
Missing comma sends wrong message:- - World News - Webindia123.com
The signs read Say NO' to Drugs from the NMB Police D.A.R.E Officers, the Miami Herald reported.
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