Fetch Gets Long Awaited Upgrade

What’s the point when you have an open source solution that’s better (IMO)

(added an underscore after FTP_ to get mod_security happy)

wiPod | iPod-based field guide to free wi-fi hotspots

Nice, a lot of hotspots in Texas…

BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis

I never liked iPodder + iTunes, with RSS a built-in technology in Tiger it should be pretty damn easy to add podcasting support to iTunes, and looks like they agreed… 🙂

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

2-finger scrolling hack stopped working, this is kindda anonying too… I’ll look into this later…

Only took about 30 minutes or so, and that was because I went through the DVD checksum process… Very nice, first time boot up after upgrade took a loooooong time, I hope it won’t be like that later… Spolight saids it would take 6 hours to index the computer…

Finally picked up Tiger, gonna install it maybe tonight, we’ll see how it goes… 🙂 My friends who’ve installed it seem to like it.

No need to replace it, cool! I probably bought my PB before Oct of last year…

iBook G4 and PowerBook battery exchange notice

palmOne – Products – LifeDrive Mobile Manager

What do you guys think of this?

It doesn’t work with iTunes so it won’t kill the iPod. You can store office documents on the HDD, but it doesn’t have anything like M$ Office, so it probably won’t work as well as the (god forbid) PocketPC handhelds… It doesn’t have a phone function so it’s not as useful as the Treo… I doubt the picture viewer can handle different types of RAW files so it won’t work as a picture dump like the Epson P-2000. It also lacks a CF card slot, most prosumer or D-SLR’s still use CF cards.

Good for students? Well, not sure about all schools, but at Carnegie Mellon or MIT all students had AFS access so there was really no need to carry any data around, I’m sure most schools provide students with at least some kindda web storage so they can put up their personal webpages… and there is always Gmail for cheap free mass storage…

I guess it’s sorta a jack-of-all-trade attempt for Palm, I can’t say it isn’t a good idea… Everything kindda make sense, but I still would prefer an iPod, mainly because of iTunes (and Apple Lossless), and a Treo 650. It’s just because I don’t think I would carry an extra PDA with me at all times, but if it’s my cellphone I would. And a mini keyboard is far better than Graffiti, I’ve been a Palm user for 5 years so I know my Graffiti (and Graffiti shortcuts!!) pretty darn well, but I can basically do everything with the 5-way navigator and the keyboard on my Treo 650 without ever removing the stylus.

I guess if I were in the market for a PDA it might appeal to me, for $100 more than the T5 I get a 4GB HDD, more included apps (still no VPN app included!!), WiFi and Bluetooth built-in so I can use the expansion slot for something else.

HOW-TO: Make a customized RSS screensaver in Tiger – Engadget – www.engadget.com