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What is RSS and why should I care?
Most web sites that are article based such as a blog or a news site support an alternative approach to reading their articles without the need of a web browser. The technology that enables this approach is called RSS.
If you typically browse a regular set of web sites everyday for news and information, RSS will save you from opening up every web site and scanning it for updates manually. You can consolidate all the articles from your regular web sites into a single tool similar to email to make reading them quicker and easier. Read the rest of this entry »
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RunKeeper
Enter the “RunKeeper” sports watch. It has an interface with the iPhone using Bluetooth to provide remote display and control of RunKeeper. This is pure fantasy, but I’m hoping a watch that is capable of supporting a generic bluetooth interface that may be utilised by iPhone Apps is on its way.
Browse Web Sites Quickly
If you typically browse a bunch of regular web sites everyday for news and information, RSS will save you from opening up every web site and scanning it for updates manually. You can consolidate all the articles from all your regular web sites into a single tool similar to email.
Time Machine Excluding
Time Machine is a great system for backup up our every growing library of files, but how can you tell what data is being backed up every hour?
Sharing a 30″ screen
Sharing a 30″ screen between a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro is a little more costly than doing the same in a Windows world. There are two magic ingredients to achieving full resolution screen sharing.
Missing Roving Mars
I would be more than happy to spend the $40 buying a Blu-ray copy. Unfortunately, my only option today is to spend $280 for return flights to Sydney for the day, $15 for return train ticket and $40 for the IMAX tickets – a total of $335 – to watch a 40 minute documentary
Human firewall
Sometimes I find it reassuring to check exactly what my system is up to under the hood. Specifically which applications or background processes are either waiting for connections or have a connection already established to the Internet. After installing many applications over the years there is always a good chance something may be lurking around that shouldn’t.
Twitter is useful
I recently joined iStockPhoto in an attempt to sell some photos. My first photo was rejected due to chromatic aberration. Not knowing how to fix this problem I turned to Twitter.
Automator Frustration
Many WordPress themes support various widgets and sections that display the same post image in various sizes. The built in WordPress sizing function doesn’t quite end up with a nicely scaled and cropped image. I turned to Mac OS X’s built in Automator to do the job.
The process is simple. Drop one or more images [...]
Sharing Calendars
I have been looking for a solution to share a calendar with my wife for some time. My requirement is to have a single calendar accessible via iCal on our Macs and iPhones with the ability for us both to read and write to it.
Audio Monitoring
Our Sony HDR-HC3 High Definition video camera lacks two key features: optical image stabilisation and an headphone jack. The missing headphone jack makes it impossible to determine if the audio coming into the camera is suitable. But there is a way.
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