2005 August

If you own a mobile phone capable of accessing the web, and have a need to make international calls at the lowest possible rates, here is some information you may be interested in reading further.
The new JAJAH mobile service offers low VoIP rates for calls from your mobile phone. Call any number in […]

For those who may still be on the fence about making the switch (or about picking up a spare Mac), Apple has started a two-month long promotion which aims to get the Mac mini into as many homes as possible. The company is offering anyone who is interested an extended 30-day trial of the Mac […]

iPods which double as cell phones, as well as video iPods, are rumoured to be the next big thing which Apple will be unveiling at their big announcement next week.
The iPod phone has long been rumoured, and both Dow Jones and the New York Times have confirmed this week that Apple has […]

Can you help me discover more music that I’ll like?
“Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.”
A new service allowing you to create your own radio station, […]

I love dashboard widgets! I access them by moving my cursor to the bottom left corner of my screen. Since I use my laptop for school, it would benefit me to have a third desktop layer besides the ones presented by the regular desktop and the widgets layer. Is there a way […]

I wrote all of my web site’s code using SimpleText in MacOS 9. Recently I made the step up to OS X and I’ve transferred all of my data from my old G-4 to the new system. When I open the html pages in TextEdit on OS X I am unable […]

Veoh, a new self-defined Internet Television Peercasting Network, is readying its archiving and video distribution infrastructure for a public launch in the coming months.
Veoh will be free of charge for both video producers as well as for viewers – anyone will be able to upload content and to use the service at no cost. […]

Today I have some spent some time testing a passionately homegrown open-source web conferencing and live presentation system available right now online.
The brainchild of John McCaughey (of whom I publish a genuine audio recording as he first guides me to explore his baby - available at the end of this article), this is a humble, […]

Boy, am I glad that’s over. What a freaking ordeal. You see, a few days ago I continued my Mac switch (which, up to that point, included a Mac mini and 12” PowerBook G4) with the purchase of a 20” 2.0 GHz iMac G5. The thing costs about $2,000 after taxes are said and done, […]

For those of you who haven’t already heard, Amazon is offering a new short story download service, Amazon Shorts. It’s really cool, in that it offers new short stories, not available anywhere else, by authors including some very well known, and well-loved, authors (Robin Cook, Danielle Steel, and Harry S. Dent, to name a […]

New media picks of the week is my weekly basket of tasty new media resources, online tools and new software tools I think are worth your attention.
Try for yourself, download, install and learn some pretty interesting things with these great new resources and tools.
Here is my selection for this week:

Full-featured digital photo-sharing service
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I’ve been running Mac OS X Tiger for a while now, and when I encounter Web sites that have RSS feeds available, I’ve noticed that a blue “RSS” graphic appears in the address bar, but I haven’t figured out how to actually subscribe to RSS feeds and use Safari as an RSS / syndication reader.
While […]

I’ve been saying since day one that it would only be a matter of time before the Trusted Platform Module, the peace of code to prevent OS X from running on non-Apple hardware, would be hacked. Man, I was pretty surprised to find out that’s already been done

“Secunia Advisory: SA16449
Critical: Highly critical
Impact: Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Manipulation of data, Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation, DoS, System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch
Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes more
than 40 vulnerabilities….
Solution: Apply Security Update 2005-007.
Mac OS X 10.3.9 Client:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2005007macosx1039client.html
Mac OS X 10.3.9 Server:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/securityupdate2005007macosx1039server.html
Mac OS X 10.4.2 […]

Dear Mr. Steve Jobs,
Let me introduce myself. My name is Kumar Verma and I am an Apple consumer - more appropriately an iPod mini consumer. I will make this e-mail brief as I am sure we are both busy individuals. As you can tell I was quite dismayed when my iPod suddenly stopped charging. However, […]

I am currently living with my Dad, have about 1700 songs in iTunes and don’t want to lose them when I move to my Mother’s house! How could I somehow transfer the songs to my computer at my Mom’s house? Is there a way where I could burn the data to a CD […]

Anyone who has a Mac knows and loves Small Dog Electronics for their great products and prices.
But did you know that a Mac’s best friend is now a best friend to man’s best friend?
Small Dog Electronics now has an area of their website devoted entirely to “Dog Friends”, where one can post pictures of one’s […]

Yet another reason I love shopping at the Apple Store: pure service.
When we bought Liz’s Cinema HD screen, the people there tried to slap us with the AppleCare Protection Plan for it (and the Mac mini) telling us it would be good in case something happened to the screen. Well, Engadget’s got […]

I’m running iTunes v 4.9 on my Mac (running OS X 10.2.8). I screwed up somehow and deleted my old music library trying to fix a different problem. I learned my lesson on that. I have on older v 1.5 iPod with all my music on it. Can I transfer those songs into my library?

In the past year we’ve seen the popularity of both blogs and podcasts explode. There are fewer and fewer websites that do not have an RSS feed available for their customers and/or visitors. In fact, if you are a business on the web, an RSS feed is a necessity. RSS started out as being Rich […]