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April 20, 2004

spurl.net

spurl.net a "better" del.icio.us? .. anyway I still like the concept of both these products.

April 15, 2004

carbot

carbot is a general purpose PC (600 MHz fanless with
20GB hard drive) that attaches to the radio head-unit of your car,
checks e-mail via 802.11, allows you to geoblog, and whatever else you
want to be doing with a PC.

[mehack]

Address Book plugins

One of the coolest features of the MacOS X Address Book is extensiblity. The free Reverse Look-up plugin (U.S. only) and roll-your-own Schedule Call script are outstanding examples.

Reverse Lookup allows you to click on the label of any phone number and select "Reverse 212-555-1212 to address". This will automatically fill in the appropriate address fields for that card. Very cool!

"Schedule Call to (contact's name)" will also appear in this menu after installation. It populates a new iCal Info window when selected, and places it in the To Do list. A link to their Address Book entry is automatically entered into the Notes field.

[MacIT.org]

April 08, 2004

Automount

A good tip on how to use automount on OS X

MusiKube

MusiKube has developed a suite of mobile and web-based services that give consumers the tools to capture music that interests them wherever and whenever they come across it... they have an interesting approach to use camera phones to access more detailed information about a music item.

playfair

playfair takes one of the iTMS Protected AAC Audio Files, decodes it using a key obtained from your iPod or Macintosh system and then writes the new, decoded version to disk as a regular AAC Audio File.

The Cocoa Controller Layer

Mike Beam, O’Reilly: “By Apple’s reckoning, the controller layer potentially allows 90 percent of Cocoa applications to replace custom-developed glue code with the components of the controller layer.” [ranchero.com]