January 2008
39 posts
Robert Scoble interviews the shy Mark Zuckerberg →
“I asked him why he doesn’t like going on video and seems to have difficulty dealing with the press and bloggers. He said he was shy. Asked me not to video him “I freeze up,” he told me. He did promise to meet more with bloggers and to give me a video interview when he’s back home. But it was far from the only thing I learned about Mark.”
Don't Always Trust a Carfax Report →
Just because you received a clean Carfax report with their “Buyback Guarantee” doesn’t mean the car isn’t salvaged, stolen, frame damage, flood damage, etc….
Would You Pay $1 For A Feed? →
What if blogs and journals offered a full feed for $1 per month with no ads, mobile access, etc. Would you subscribe for a buck? And what about packs of feeds for a reduced price, say 50 cents per feed?
Gibson Screws Musician Out Of $10,000 Worth Of... →
A musician named Tonedeff won the Lolapalooza Last Band Standing contest in 2006. Part of the prize package was “$10,000 worth of equipment from our friends at Gibson. (yes, believe it!).” Well, Tonedeff believed it, and he’s spent the last year and a half trying to get Gibson to make good on their promise.
24 Ways to Achieve a Deep, Uninterrupted Sleep →
*#23* Spend 10 minutes journaling the day’s events or feelings after tucking yourself into bed. This “data dump” will help turn off the repeating tape of our day that often plays in our minds, keeping us from falling asleep.
Fox News Interview: Bush Equates Himself To... →
Fox previewed his documentary — “George W. Bush: Fighting to the Finish” — on Fox News this afternoon. He said that what surprised him from the interview was the President’s repeated efforts to link himself to Abraham Lincoln
Toy Story 1 & 2 Returning to Theaters in 3D! →
It was announced today that the first two films in Pixar’s sole and signature franchise, Toy Story and Toy Story 2, are headed back to movie screens October 2nd, 2009 and February 12th, 2010, respectively, with a complete digital 3D makeover, called Disney Digital 3D to be exact.
Walmart Is Still Selling Nazi T-Shirts 62 Weeks... →
Just when you thought all of the Walmart tshirts bearing the exact replica of an infamous Nazi symbol were recalled, or sold to a discount store and burned, a Walmart in Palmdale, California has them on sale for $3.00 a pop.
Cabling As Art →
The most beautifully cabled servers.
Apple Announces Time Capsule Home Server for Macs →
At Macworld 2008, Apple just announced Time Capsule, a full Airport Extreme base station with 802.11n wireless and four ethernet ports, plus server grade hard drives to back up all of the Leopard Macs in the house. Details and pics to come, but for now we’re celebrating the pricing: 500GB for $300; 1TB for $500.
Engadget's Live Macworld 2008 Coverage →
Live from Macworld 2008: Steve Jobs keynote, starts at 9:00AM Pacific, 12:00PM Eastern.
Mac sales up over 40 percent year-over-year →
Apple later this month is expected to announce fiscal first quarter revenues of nearly $10 billion for the three-month period ending December, fueled largely by the ongoing resurgence of the company’s personal computer business, according one Wall Street analyst.
SteveNote Expo game: only you can get Jobs prepped... →
With CES in the books, banners flying up and rumors running rampant, only one thing could be on the horizon: Steve’s Macworld 2008 keynote. Unfortunately, it seems he’s a bit short on time, and needs you to access a totally awesome web-based game to help round up garb, VIPs and top-secret gear before taking the stage.
Internal changes bolster latest Mac Pro →
Macworld’s Speedmark tests of Apple’s latest high-end desktop system—the eight-core 2.8GHz Mac Pro released earlier this week—show that it’s notably faster than the four-core 2.6GHz Mac Pro it replaces in Apple’s product line.
5 Things You Didn't Know About Victoria's Secret →
You might know that Victoria’s Secret employs the most smokin’ models, but here are 5 other things Victoria’s been keeping a secret from you…
37 Simple Stress Management Tips →
#6: “Do Some Math” Using a scale of one to 10, with one being the equivalent of a minor hassle and 10 being a true catastrophe, assign a number to whatever it is that’s making you feel anxious. You’ll find that most problems we encounter rate somewhere in the two to five range — in other words, they’re really not such a big deal…
It Takes 7 Hrs and 51 Mins to Get From "Here" to... →
Only Google would know that
Why Apple Is Launching New Gear a Week Before... →
I had a briefing with Apple on their new Xserve and Mac Pros that were released today, mid week during CES, a week before Macworld 2008. I had only one question for them: Why release new gear when the Keynote is only a few days away? Their answer won’t satisfy your curiousity, but here is the official.
Apple Announces Penryn Mac Pros and Xserve →
Apple today revised the Mac Pro and Xserves with a new architecture and the recently released Penryn Processors. The Mac Pro combines two 45-nm Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2GHz and up to 4TB of internal storage. The standard 8-core configuration starts at $2799.
New Apple Mac Pro: 8 Cores, Count Em Baby →
Apple’s got a second release that just hit the wires: A Mac Pro with two intel 45nm Quad-Core Xeons.
Jay-Z, HP's star endorser, uses a Mac →
Jay-Z and girlfriend Beyonce seem to be Apple fans. No surprise there: Plenty of musicians use Macs. What is surprising? Jay-Z was in one of those Hewlett-Packard “hand” ads last year touting HP laptops.
Woman has full sized wedding cake....of herself. ... →
Pictures of a full sized woman wedding cake.
Building a .com in 24 hours →
This is about how I spend 24 concentrated hours spread out over 4 days during Holidays to build the online service Wigitize.com. What I tried to do for this project is use some new methods/tools out there to solve practical problems in my weakness area: design, frontend coding, system administration and SEO.
Napster goes back to MP3s →
Napster has announced that it plans to convert its non-subscription music purchases over DRM-free MP3 files. It has yet to finalize agreements with some major labels, but it hopes that the early announcement will give it a competitive edge.
Netflix developing movie set-top-box with LG →
According to Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, the LG partnership will hopefully be “the first of many such deals” for the company, and he added that he’d love to “see a hundred Netflix-capable boxes,”
Jay-Z launching record label with Apple →
This one’s been floating around like a hot air balloon, but we’ve just about confirmed it. For those that don’t know, Jay-Z left Def Jam as President last month, and everyone’s been talking about where he’s heading. While this might be one of his many other venutures, we just heard that Jay-Z is launching a record label with Apple
Freemusiczilla: Best Music Downloader I've Tested →
Freemusiczilla is desktop based software that basically lets you download any song you can stream on the Internet.
$100 a Barrel →
Oil has traded at $100 a barrel for the first time. Happy New Year.
How Bad Can The Housing Crash Get?... Look At... →
The city of Stockton in California is at the center of the mortgage crisis now sweeping America. Because, with house prices tumbling, more people in Stockton face the repossession of their homes than anywhere else in the US. Stockton is also a place where you can really get a feel for the amounts of easy money banks loaned during the boom.
Apple may offer external optical drive with new... →
Mac maker Apple Inc., which later this month will unveil its first sub-notebook design in over a decade, is likely to offer an external optical drive as an optional accessory, according to a new report.
Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks →
When it comes to the Google search box, you already know the tricks: like searching for exact phrases in quotes like “so say we all” or searching a single site using site:lifehacker.com gmail. But there are many more oblique, clever, and lesser-known search recipes and operators that work from that unassuming little text box.
Apple sub-notebook spotted →
Photo of apples rumored sub-notebook.
Creatively Speaking: Model’s memoir written in... →
Isobella Jade, is getting national attention these days as the model who wrote a memoir without the use of computer. (Let me clarify: without the use of her own computer.) It may very well be the start of a new breed: books written in public spaces on public computers.
O.C. sewage will soon be drinking water →
A $490-million plant will clean effluent to state standards, then inject it into the groundwater basin for further filtration.
Rare color photograph of Hitler's birthday →
While the dictator does not look in the best of physical health, the shiny-faced Ayran boys and girls are immaculately dressed in bright pastel colors.
'Organic' Overused →
The word ‘organic’ is banned! *Gasp*
Using chocolate waste as fuel →
If waste equals food, how about food waste? This article covers the beauty of thinking. Specifically, putting the waste materials from the manufacturing of chocolate to use as an ingredient in the processing of diesel fuel.
You Might Be Addicted to Digg If.... →
Guilty as accused.
2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without →
This is a list of the products I tend to use daily. Some are for work, some are for fun, and some are useful for both. But I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them.