Month: October 2005

  • AOL Triton Update

    It looks like AOL is giving it’s popular Instant Messaging app: AOL Instant Messenger a brand makeover. The logo shown to the right features the new AIM “speech balloon” that is prevalent in marketing materials promoting the new AIM Triton Beta client. I’m surprised that AOL has taken this step to brand AIM more than…

  • Google Reader Revisited

    Google has released some pretty impressive products in the past couple of years: Gmail, Google News, Google Desktop, Google Earth, etc. Sadly, Google Reader doesn’t fall into that category. I know it’s still in the Labs… but Google Reader is a big disappointment. Adding feeds to your subscriptions is a bit of a hassle (unless…

  • Yahoo Unveils Podcast Site

    Yahoo! revealed its own Podcast website. You can search through podcasts, tag em, and subscribe to them all through our browser.

  • Say hello to my little friend: Google Reader

    Google just launched Google Reader, an RSS aggregator. I’ve been using Bloglines for a while… but I think I may be making a switch in the near future.

  • Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Released

    You can snag it here: Mozilla.org I plan on downloading it as soon as I get into work. I had some rendering issues with Beta 1, that I hope have been improved upon. One of the issues being able to access authenticated feeds.

  • Upcoming.org

    Upcoming.org is a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site. Note to self: add to that: Upcoming.org is now a part of Yahoo! Another great concept for the web was snatched up by one of the…

  • One More Thing…

    What’s Apple got up it’s sleeves now? Rumors are flying about a possible Video iPod, a Video-enabled AirPort Express, and more… What do you think it might be?Apple

  • Subscribe to iCalendars in Outlook 2003

    Heck yeah! Got further validation that I am a GEEK. I am absolutely giddy about news that I received via email from Daniele Tiles about the SourceForge Project: RemoteCalendars. RemoteCalendars is a COM-.NET Add-in for Outlook 2003, written in C#. After installing this plugin, every Outlook user should be able to subscribe, reload and delete…

  • Pregnancy Update

    Things are going well for Kim and the Baby! She enters the 3rd trimester on Wednesday. We’re both excited to be so close to the end. Life threw us a curveball over the weekend. We discovered that the Baby Gender Mentor might not be as accurate as we previously thought. A recent report on NPR…

  • Writeboard is here.

    Looks like the guesses were right: Writeboard is here. As usual, 37Signals has created something useful AND easy to use. This new online application offering allows for online collaboration with text documents. The interface is really clean, simple and well thought out. I setup my first Writeboard in about 5 seconds. I started writing text…