Month: January 2008
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The Quicksilver-for-Windows Showdown
Before I owned my first Mac, Quicksilver was the application that made me wish I did. Luckily, slowly but surely, Windows developers began building apps intended to successfully attain that Quicksilver-for-Windows status. They started as simple application launchers, but recently the Quicksilver-for-Windows battle has exploded with tons of new applications. [From LifeHacker] Sometimes Dreams do…
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Depriving the Middle East of YouTube
Disruption to internet services in south Asia and the Middle East continues after undersea cable damage.[via the Beeb] Stealing their oil and trying to instill democracy is one thing but depriving the Middle East of YouTube is just plain cruel and most contravene the Geneva Convention. [UPDATED] FEB 6th, OK this isn’t funny anymore. There…
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Download your Free PUGScreen Cleaner Here
The Flash video of the pug licking you monitor from the inside has been taken down. Some like to call this the Fat Dad effect! I try to keep my blog as clean as possible, but sometimes you need a little extra help from some professionals. Thanks to Eric for sending in the Pros
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Currys stops selling analogue TVs
[From BEEB] Electrical retailers Currys, Dixons and PC World will now promote digital TV sets with built-in Freeview tuners. Why hasn’t this happened in be in Canada yet? This is perfect excuse for going out getting that 50 LCD everyone absolutely _needs_!
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Mahalo’s Veronica Belmont Interviews Stan Lee, Excelsior!
Spider-Man is a superhero created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko. He first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. He appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and in movies, television shows, and video game adaptations set in the…
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Creepy Google Maps Video
Thanks to Eric for sending this one in. We all love Google Maps, but do you just wish that sometimes, you could see a little more from the Street View. Well this creepy Google Maps video does just that. [from Google Blogoscoped ]
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BlackBerry’s Dark Little GPS Secret
You _don’t_ need TeleNav! What you say? BlackBerry holding out their beloved _crackberry_ loyalists? Well yes, in the case of their GPS services they have completely undersold their own apps in order to sell you something you probably don’t even need. I had never really used BlackBerry Maps on the my previous BB 7250 and…
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The 60 Second Keynote!
I love Mahalo for this kind of stuff. This truly is the only way to watch his Steveness with out being affect by the Reality Distortion Field. I must admit that into the 58th second, I could start to feel it. So far my favourite review is from Scott Davis, who was force fed the…
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Getting Ready for the Big SteveNote 2008
I will be spending my lunch hour, following this year’s Macworld KeyNote by Steve Jobs (SteveNote) on Engadget, TUAW and possible Cali Lewi’s GeekBreif coverage as well. Hoping for a sub compact notebook, a MacMini/AppleTV Hybrid and an iPod Touch update. Oh and a Beatles Yellow Submarine iPod! UPDATE The GeekBrief Stream is not working…