For Fun

The Reflex Tester

Ok, not really technology related, but fun. Check out this site and post your results in the comments section. I got 0.281 several times as my best score...

Universal Translator

Breaking Down Language Barriers

I recommend buying stock in TransClick if they ever go public...

Dilbert's Blog

The Dilbert Blog

That's right, Scott Adams now has a Blog. Life is good!

Microsoft Ad

Live Meeting

The great thing about this short ad (60 seconds) is that I didn't see it coming, so it's all the more humorous.

Google Earth Gems

Google Sightseeing

This is just a cool site that allows people to post need things they've seen on Google Earth. I'm tempted to post a shot of Becker Underwood mulch piles. :-)

Sync your folders

Download details: SyncToy v1.0

Cool new app

Professors Podcasting

Newsday.com: Missed class? Try a podcast

Why wasn't anyone podcasting when I went to school? Oh yeah, they didn't have iPods OR podcasting back then. Heck, they didn't have wireless on campus until 1 semester after I graduated...

Google in the News. Again.

Wired News: Google Profits Defy Expectations

This article speaks for itself...

OppenOffice 2.0!

OpenOffice.org Project gives green light to OpenOffice 2.0

SWEET! OpenOffice now has a database program! Very cool...

Sweet laptop!

Sony VAIO TX Series made of Carbon Fiber

Kudos to Will for finding this little jewel. The lightness factor is cool, but I think the AV mode where you can watch pictures or movies and listen to music without booting Windows is even cooler.

The Secret Service has Infiltrated Printers...

Hidden Codes in Printers Cracked

Anyone have $5 Million?

Wired News: Wi-Fi Cloud Covers Rural Oregon

If someone could put up a Wi-Fi Cloud like this one in Ames, I'd really appreciate it. I'd do it, but I don't have $5 Million. :-)

Outlook Mobile Manager

Outlook Mobile Manager

Interesting and free app from Microsoft to help prioritize your important e-mails and forward them to a mobile device while you're gone...

Hybrid Motorcycle

Yamaha Hybrid

A hybrid bike? I don't know if I could do it. I doubt the pipes are deafeningly loud. :-)

An MP3 Player / PEZ machine

PEZ MP3

NICE!

OpenSource Webmail

RoundCube Webmail Project

This is AJAX based. Microsoft and Yahoo have been doing a lot of stuff with AJAX. OpenSource Webmail program if you have a server that can do MySQL and PHP. Kinda cool if you ever thought about hosting your own e-mail...

Today's Big Announcement from Apple

Apple - iMac G5 - Front Row

Direct competition to Microsoft with their Media PC. Leave it to Apple to make it look sweet...

MSN and Yahoo users to chat together?

Microsoft and Yahoo

Add this to the list of companies Microsoft is striking deals with...

XBox 360 and iPod

Xbox 360 ... and iPod Nano?

Ok, seriously, what is going on here? Microsoft work with Apple iPod. Microsoft settles a deal and a PARTNERSHIP with RealNetworks. The new Palm Treo 700 runs MICROSOFT WINDOWS CE MOBILE! How is this happening? I am fully convinced that there is no stopping Microsoft. I have a lot of respect for this company. Of course, I'm a conservative, so that should be no surprise, right? :-)

Google.org

Google.org

Where is Yahoo.org? Hmmm, just says page cannot be found. :-)

Since this page is basic, here is some more information on the good things Google is doing:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/about-googleorg.html

Dish TV in the palm of your hand

EchoStar debuts portable video player

This is cool, but as expected, proprietary hardware to EchoStar. There are so many good portable video players out there, why do they have to go and create their own PocketDish? Don't answer that, I know why...

Oh yeah, and anyone who gets a 2.2 inch screen is an idiot...

Skype gets some hardware

Linksys CIT200 Skype phone review

I think this Skype thing is something to be reckoned with. That phone is pretty slick...

Hotmail gets renovated

MSN Mail Beta Preview

Looks like they are scrambling to catch up to Gmail. :-)

How much damage can an iPod Nano take?

iPod nano : Stress Test

Actually, it turns out quite a bit!

Google's Feed Reader

Reader.Google.com

Ok, admittedly I haven't tried this yet. It's web based, so I doubt I'll like it better than my SharpReader which alerts me to new entries, but it's Google, so it has to be cool. :-)

Sweet Gmail Feature

If you'd like your outgoing Gmail messages to display another one of your email addresses in the 'From:' field (instead of your Gmail address), just follow these easy steps:

1. Log in to your Gmail account.
2. Click 'Settings' along the top of any page, and then select the 'Accounts' tab.
3. Click 'Add another email address' in the 'Send mail as:' section.
4. Enter your full name in the 'Name:' field, and the email address you'd like to send messages from in the 'Email address:' field.

   *Keep in mind that each time someone replies to a message you send using a custom 'From:' address, the reply will be delivered to the 'From:' address rather than your Gmail address. If you'd like replies to be delivered to another account, you'll need to enter a 'reply-to' address. Just click 'Specify a different reply-to address' to enter this information.

5. Click 'Next Step >>,' and then click 'Send Verification' to complete the process. Gmail will send a verification message to your other email address to confirm that you'd like to add it to your Gmail account. You'll need to click the link in that message, or enter the confirmation code in the 'Accounts' section of your Gmail account, to complete the process. Once you've verified that you'd like to add the address to your account, you can start sending messages using your custom 'From:' address.

Tip: If you have a number of different email addresses, enter all of them in your Gmail account, and then select a different address to send each of your messages from, depending on what you're sending.

 

NOTE:  It even gives you a "from" drop down on all of your outgoing e-mail so you can very easily pick which e-mail address it should appear to come "from"!!!!

Flickr: Transparent Screens

Pretty cool site that shows people who have made their monitors "transparent". :-)

A few Nano Glitches

Apple acknowledges flaw in iPod Nano

I held one of these in the Chicago Apple Store last weekend. Man, these things are sweet. If it wasn't for the fact that the biggest one can only hold 4GB...

Dell without an OS

Dell offers an open-source PC

New Dimension E510n comes with a blank hard drive and FreeDOS. Interesting.

Smarty Pants

AskMeNow

This looks like a cool and useful service. Someone to look up Google stuff for you!

$100 laptop

CNN.com - MIT unveils wind-up $100 laptop - Sep 30, 2005

Does this remind anyone of a certain movie? :-)

Save As PDF

Microsoft to Build PDF Support Into Office 12

This should make Microsoft and Adobe GREAT friends. :-)

Gotta watch this

Sun Microsystems and Google

These guys are going to change the way we look at software today. They are expected to announce an Office Suite based on OpenOffice, and accesible via webbrowser. Check out this webcast today at 12:30pm...