Black 80GB iPod? Yes please! Who wants to call dibs on my 4G 40GB?
Think Secret – New iPod and Mac configs due this week
Leave a reply
Pole Position baby! Oh yeah!
Red team starting 1st and 3rd, pretty cool! I wonder when we’ll see self-driven F1 cars…. 😉
NewsGator Acquires NetNewsWire
Interesting insights on the NNW/NewsGator deal: NewsGator Acquires NetNewsWire
Fare Thee Well, Paper & Ink
This sucks, I love that store! I’m sorta into fountain pens, so I used to go there often. There was another paper store next to Central Market on Lamar that was really cool too. Best of luck to Kelly Fielding, the owner.
One of our favorite stationery and producers of all personalized-paper-related products and services stores is closing its doors. You may remember reading an earlier post about our good friends at Paper & Ink. Well, starting Monday, Oct 3rd, all inventory, fixtures, furniture and displays will be majorly discounted. All personalized stationery and holiday card orders are 25% off. Their last day open will be Oct. 28th – a new tenant is moving in on the following Monday! (We can not speak the new tenant’s name here; not out of hatred, just cuz’a like legality issues and such. But look for more about that space later in this space
For more information, check out the owner’s note to her customers.
Paper & Ink
706 Congress Ave.
Closing Its Doors Sale
NetNewsWire Mac feedreader bought by NewsGator
I’ve been using NetNewsWire since I got my Mac, just read that they (well, he) got bought by NewsGator. I have a NewsGator account, but I haven’t used it for a long time… Their Windows RSS reader was very good, but not good enough for me to pay for it. I hope they would continue the free “Lite” version of NNW.
NetNewsWire Mac feedreader bought by NewsGator:
Cory Doctorow:
I’m a committed user of NetNewsWire, a feedreader for the Mac that’s got a clean, easy-to-use UI and is pretty responsive. The author of NNW, Brent Simmons, has been really excellent about following up on bug reports, something that has really given me ongoing confidence in the app.Now NewsGator, a company that makes a Windows-based feedreader of the same name, has purchased Brent’s company, Ranchero Software and hired Brent to go on developing NNW. This has got to be great news for all concerned — Brent gets a little dough and more support to go on developing his great tools, Newsgator gets to add a badly needed Mac app to its lineup.
Congrats Brent! Looking forward to lots more NetNewsWire updates — this is the app that lets me drink straight from the Internet firehose and I couldn’t live without it.
How much would you lose if you bought stocks from spam?
How much would you lose if you bought stocks from spam?:
Cory Doctorow:
SpamStockTracker tracks how much money you’d lose if you actually followed the pump-and-dump “stock tips” you get in your spam:
(via O’Reilly Radar)
Glowing multicolored bathtubs and sinks — tchotchkes for your bathroom
Wow this is cool!
Glowing multicolored bathtubs and sinks — tchotchkes for your bathroom:
Cory Doctorow:
Hard to say what I like so much about these glowing bathtubs and sinks, illuminated from within by colored lights. I think it’s that they are basically full-sized bathroom fixtures designed with the same novelty aesthetic as a point-of-sale gewgaw like a flashlight-compass that’s also a Pez dispenser. It takes a lot of guts to manufacture a tchotchke that weighs hundreds of pounds, takes up half a bathroom, and glows popsicle green.
(via Popgadget)
SpamAssassin in sarge
looking at the sarge upgrade list, looks like SpamAssassin will not be upgraded, that sucks. 3.1 is out, FreeBSD -STABLE ports has 3.1, well, but I’d take Debian over FreeBSD any day… 😉
Considering upgrading my server to Sarge
So sarge, the newest stable version of Debian, has been out for a while. My friend Dan has upgraded his server (he gave me free hosting there for years, until I got my own server), and it went smoothly with the exception of some LILO or GRUB problems (I need to ask him what it was exactly, my server boots with GRUB). I replaced “woody” with “stable” in /etc/apt/sources.list, updated the packages list, and here are the aptitude outputs…
Gallery2 and Safari
I’m not very impressed with the performance of Gallery2, it’s MUCH MUCH slower than G1. I understand it has database backend, the codebase is huge in comparison, yada yada yada… Still, vB is pretty big and it runs quite fast on my server.
I also tried viewing my G2 gallery in Firefox instead of Safari on my PowerBook, and guess what, Firefox is MUCH faster! I know, Safari is not the fastest browser anymore, but still, there must be something about how G2 does CSS or the dynamic shit that makes it super slow in Safari (and probably Konqueror too).
I don’t recommend upgrading your gallery to G2, or using G2, unless you have more than 4k pictures. My snapshot gallery had around 3k pictures and it worked just fine. I guess I could downgrade, my G1 installation is intact, I’ll have to think about this more…