Apple – Mighty Mouse

This is cool, I will have to go try it out when they got them at the apple stores…

Google files for RSS ads patent

Apple recruiting Sony VAIO engineers to build the first Intel PowerBook?

Hmm… I worked on laptops at Dell, too bad Dell laptops suck… Designing PowerBooks would be a cool job. 🙂

This is a great guide, I ordered my list of feeds and it definitely helped.

Productivity Tips For Avid Blog Readers

How to get the most of your blog reading
? Group your feeds by order of importance. You know, like ?Must Read?, ?Not So Important?, etc. This helps so much. If you group things by topic, re-group them by importance within your topic group. This makes the less important easier to ignore.
? Set aside a time (or times) during your day to read. Try and stick to those times as strictly as possible.
? Use ?mark all as read? liberally.
? Weed your reading list on a regular basis. Unsubscribe to anything you consider ?noise? as soon as you realize it?s not being read.
? Set your newsreader to check only a few times a day, or if you use an online service, be sure and resist the urge to interrupt what you are doing and check for updates. Maybe to coincide with your reading times.
? Make use of services like Del.icio.us, Digg and Technorati to find those diamonds in the rough.
? Slow down and read. Spend some time with those sites you really enjoy or those that you find real value in. I?ve found that if I spend more time reading and less time browsing I absorb more.
? Ditch a few link blogs. There are so many blogs out there that are just pointers to original content. These serve a great purpose, but try and find those that offer a unique point of view, or can bring items to the table that you can?t find elsewhere. I tend to follow the link lists of individuals I trust more than actual blogs devoted to linking.
? Keep in mind that if you read lots of blogs in the same space you?ll see things repeated and will be unlikely to miss anything you really should be reading.
? Understand that a day not paying attention to blogs is a day you can spend doing something productive. They?ll be there when you get back.

This is great, LOL!!!

Microsoft “Genuine Advantage” cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’:
Cory Doctorow:

AV sez, “This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called ‘Genuine Advantage.’ It was cracked within 24 hours.”

Before pressing ‘Custom’ or ‘Express’ buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:

javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’)

It turns off the trigger for the key check.

Link

This pretty damn cool… Most of us won’t need the installing Ruby or MySQL on Windoze part, but the rest was interesting… ONLamp.com: Rolling with Ruby on Rails

Maybe I’ll finally go back for Spring Carnival
Link: TUAW – Apple and Intel shacking up in Pittsburgh

$1M a year in Google Adsense (or why 2,739 is my favorite number) – The Jason Calacanis Weblog – calacanis.weblogsinc.com _

I just upgraded the firmware of my Verizon Treo 650 to the latest version. I could not find any instructions on how to do the upgrade with MissingSync, so I am going to document the steps I went through to get it to work.

• Make sure you have about half an hour of free time
• go to Palm’s knowledge base to find out if there is a ROM update for your Treo
• Download the .dmg file
• Open Missing Sync, go to Conduits, make sure the Backup conduit is enabled. Also make sure the other conduits such as iSync, Media, Mark/Space MemoPad or MemoPad are enabled
• Perform a HotSync with USB since it’s faster
• Now follow Palm’s upgrade instructions to perform a Hard Reset, and then a Soft Reset.
• In Missing Sync, click on the Current Handheld pulldown menu, and select Edit Handhelds…
• Add a new handheld by clicking New… name it whatever you want
• Click on the Install plane, remove MissingSync.prc, we don’t need it
• Drag the new ROM prc image to the Install list
• Perform HotSync, when prompted for which Handheld, choose the name of the one you just created
• On your Treo, go to Applications, and click on Treo ROM Updater, it will then perform the ROM update, it takes about 5 minutes. If your haven’t plugged in the power supply to your Treo, it will ask you to do so before it would initiate the update
• Perform a Hard Reset followed by a Cold Reset
• In Missing Sync delete the new handheld profile you created
• Choose Install profile
• Edit the Backup Conduit settings to perform a restore to Palm
• Perform HotSync
• Perform another HotSync with All Conduits enabled
• Turn the phone on (the phone app, the Palm is always on), dial *22899 to download PRL

Now, this is supposed to be it, but my contacts and calendar didn’t get sync’ed correctly. You have to tell iSync to overwrite the Treo. To do this, following this KB article at Mark/Space’s website. Basically you have to go into iSync, remove the device. Then go back to Missing Sync, double-click on iSync Conduit, then perform another HotSync.

If you have any Bluetooth devices, you will have to re-pair them.

I’m pretty impressed that it worked so well, all my settings on the Treo were restored, including the wallpapers, media data like ring tones, pics, videos, etc. Only problem I found was if you added pictures to some of your contacts (for Picture ID or just for fun), you will have to re-associate the pics to the contacts. iSync did not automatically do that for me.