February 2008
8 Keys to Instant Charisma →
There is a simple fact of human nature that states we all want to be liked. Don’t be afraid to admit it. If we think about it, underlying many of our actions, we are really seeking ways to validate ourselves and to fulfill this desire of being liked. These 8 keys can help your charisma.
January 2008
In Defense of Free Speech Rights on the National... →
[pls sign!] We the undersigned are supporting the emergency mobilization of the people demanding that there be no new restrictions on free speech or protest related activities on the National Mall in Washington D.C. This is the real objective of the Bush Administration’s plans for the National Mall.
EDGE is down for most of the midwest US →
iPhone users are out of luck—along with any other AT&T Blackberry users, etc—as an Internet outage hits the central states
REALLY Bad News Day for Hillary Clinton →
Start with Hillary Clinton’s inaction during her tenure with Wal-Mart, throw in her willingness to behave no differently than her Whitewater accusers if she can gain politically, a dash of Bill Clinton’s quid pro quo favors and top it all off with Barack Obama raising a stunning $32 million in January.
watching nickelodeon with the kid.
watching nickelodeon with the kid.
Build a Cheap Linux Home Media Server in Thre Easy... →
A Windows Home Server didn’t take long to build, but Ubuntu was rewarding for the geeky hobbyist willing to experiment with the creations of the open-source community. Either way, we got a powerful, low-cost Home Theater PC.
101 Design Patterns & Tips for Developers →
An excellent collection of useful tips on design patterns, refactoring and other programming tricks
NY Times - A Crooked Deal - Is this what... →
The NY Times did an extensive investigative report of a crooked deal that Bill Clinton conducted in human rights abusing country Khazakstan that netted him and his foundation over $100M. This is front page on the NY Times. I guess this is what Hillary means by “experience.”
12 Things I Learned By 42 That I Wish I Knew At 22 →
By the time I was 22, I knew who I wanted to marry, was in the process of quitting college, going into debt, and thought that I would be a millionaire by the time I was 30 because I was so smart. If I could go back in time, here are a few items I would tell my 22 year old self.
haitian kids resorting to eating dirt cookies, heart breaking. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hcJ474CjaJGOUznskl4ZgTHdpxUAD8UFQVR00
Why is Marijuana Illegal? →
Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.
Record Year: Shell Posts $27,500,000,000 Profit →
Shell smashed all-time British company profit records today, posting 2007 earnings of $27.5billion (£13.9billion), and immediately ran into a storm with union leaders, who are demanding the Government hits the oil giant with a windfall tax.
What to Expect From Apple TV 2.0: Photos and... →
Version 1.0 of Apple TV wasn’t a success. And version 1.1, a free software update that added a YouTube browser to the prior interface, didn’t gain Apple any traction. So the company is preparing to release version 2.0 — also called Apple TV Take 2 — as another free upgrade to try and increase interest in the 40GB and 160GB living room…
Sufjan Stevens – Lo! How A Rose E'er Blooming →
http://www.last.fm/music/Sufjan+Stevens
Sufjan Stevens – Did I Make You Cry On Christmas... →
http://www.last.fm/music/Sufjan+Stevens
Sufjan Stevens – That Was the Worst Christmas... →
http://www.last.fm/music/Sufjan+Stevens
Sufjan Stevens – Jingle Bells →
http://www.last.fm/music/Sufjan+Stevens
Amazon buys audiobook vendor Audible →
Filed under: iTS
The tie between spoken-books merchant Audible and iTunes has always been strong. Audible’s catalog forms the backbone of iTunes’ audio book offerings, and there’s a history of Audible offering iTunes-exclusive content. So it came as a surprise to me when Amazon bought Audible for $300 million, announced today. I’d imagine that the deal includes provisions...
back at work. taking a hump day off is such a good antidote to the work week.
Breaking: Large Internet failure hits Africa and... →
Large swathes of Asia, the Middle East and north Africa had their high-technology services crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
Hillary Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions →
In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, between 1986 and 1992, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world’s largest retailer waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers.
JUST NOW IN SWEDEN: Four indicted in Pirate Bay... →
Four people involved in the running of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay were indicted in Sweden on Thursday on charges of being accessories to breaking copyright law.
Confessions of a Mortgage Broker →
Here’s what you need to know about how mortgage brokers really work: “When I have a client I really don’t like — he’s a pain in the ass — that’s when I charge as much as I can get out of them,” says Jack, a mortgage broker based in Southern California. Find out how mortgage brokers screw you and how you can fight back!
Simple Bookmarking Now Available with Instapaper →
Instapaper is a cool new service taking bookmarks back to basics. If you come across some websites that you want to read but are too busy to do so, you can click on an Instapaper browser bookmarklet and then return to the Instapaper website later to read them. Think of it as Del.icio.us stripped of any tagging or social features.
Instapaper is a side project of Marco Arment, lead developer at...
YouSendIt releases Express for Mac →
Filed under: Software, Freeware, Internet, Apple
I’m probably one of the few bloggers here who hasn’t shelled out for a .Mac subscription (and an iDisk) — I’ve just never personally come across a situation where I needed one. For transferring big files I usually either throw it on a DVD or an FTP site, or I use YouSendIt for free — there’s a 100mb limit, but in...
chicken and potatoes roasting in the oven, poor rob is getting boiled alive at work.
chicken and potatoes roasting in the oven, poor rob is getting boiled alive at work.
Amazon Earnings Call Details: Web Services Use Up... →
Amazon earnings just came out. The company had a strong fourth quarter, with revenues up 42 percent to $5.7 billion, net income doubling to $207 million, and free cash flow doubling as well to $1.4 billion. On the earnings call, there is a lot of concern among analysts about margin pressure next year.
Most of the things that tend to interest us here at TechCrunch about Amazon are not yet material...
Rough Ride: Documenting Neil Young's Freedom of... →
“I was a nervous wreck by the end of that thing,” he says. “We had to deal with death threats and bomb-sniffing dogs the whole time.” The Atlanta concert is a pivotal scene in CSNY Déjà Vu, a documentary chronicling the tour, directed by Bernard Shakey (a.k.a. Young) which premiered at this year’s Sundance.
New UK survey: Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million... →
“The survey, conducted by Opinion Research Business (ORB) with 2,414 adults in face-to-face interviews, found that 20 percent of people had had at least one death in their household as a result of the conflict, rather than natural causes.:
woo hoo. got the regional manager of midas to comp me a $500 auto repair job.
woo hoo. got the regional manager of midas to comp me a $500 auto repair job.
in compononet a/v cable hell…
Scientists Harsh Criticism as Bush Stifles Science... →
In email interviews this week with 21 researchers in various fields of study, LiveScience and SPACE.com found widespread criticism for Bush’s “retardation of research,” as one scientist put it, that threatens to knock the country out of its global leadership role in science and technology.
Apple TV update delayed two weeks →
It appears that Apple has delayed the launch of updated software for the Apple TV by two weeks.
The updated software was demonstrated at Macworld Expo 2008 in San Francisco two weeks ago and will enable users of the Apple setup top box to rent movies on the iTunes Store directly from a widescreen TV. At […]
8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make →
“An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design…”
Magistrate judge suggests sanctions against RIAA... →
A federal magistrate judge has suggested the possibility of sanctions for the RIAA’s lawyers in a case involving 27 college students. At issue is the RIAA’s practice of lumping unrelated defendants into a single “John Doe” case and then pursuing individual lawsuits once the Does’ identities are learned.
Haitians Are so Poor They Resort to Eating 'Mud... →
With food prices rising, Haiti’s poorest can’t afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country’s central plateau.
McCain Criticized for Racial Slur →
McCain during the 2000 campaign: “I hate the gooks, I will hate them as long as I live.”Now that China is rising to power, do we want a person who says things like this leading our country?
wow! freed up 20 gbs of space by moving my music library to the airdisk. i love it when software works as advertised. thank you itunes.
wow! freed up 20 gbs of space by moving my music library to the airdisk. i love it when software works as advertised. thank you itunes.
ISP Ordered to Reveal Identities of BitTorrent... →
The High Court in Singapore has ordered an ISP to hand over the personal details of its customers who used BitTorrent to share Japanese anime titles, overturning a previous decision. The decision will likely pave the way to taking legal action against hundreds more BitTorrent users.
moving my entire music library off my macbook onto an airdisk. i’m scared, hold me.
When is HD not HD? →
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iTS, Video, Apple TV
ZDNet’s George Ou doesn’t exactly have a great record when it comes to Apple related analysis, but even the stopped clock is right twice a day, and he’s got an interesting article up about the forthcoming HD movies that Apple is planning to offer with Apple TV Take Two. His central point is this: high definition video is about...
Why I Switched from Clinton to Obama ? →
Former President of Chicago NOW, Lorna Brett Howard, tells the story of why she switched from supporting Hillary Clinton to Obama.
File Action: a free, light-weight alternative to... →
Filed under: Productivity, Freeware, .Mac
Many of us here around the TUAW home office love Hazel ($21.95), the great folder-based automation utility that you can set up to run various rules to process (e.g. move, copy, sort) your files. However, we also like free, and so I was intrigued by a new application called File Action that is basically a kind of Hazel-light. File Action concentrates on...
Keep your MagSafe power plug clean →
Apple’s novel magnetic power adapter found on its Intel-based notebooks can keep a mobile Mac from spilling on the floor, but sometimes it needs some attention from users. Apple on Tuesday updated its technical documents on the care and cleaning of MacSafe connector.
Apple posts "Find out how" tutorials →
Filed under: Switchers, Apple
Today, Apple added a new “Find Out How” section to their website. This new page features video tutorials of the following aspects of the Mac: Mac OS X Photos Movies Web
Music Documents
This information is no doubt welcome to many new switchers, or potential switchers, who want to learn more about the user interface. You can also subscribe to these...
realizing how much I dislike Midas. They seem to not give a darn about loyal customers and worse they seem to have shady pricing practices.
