I’m working on migrating away from MobileMe, which I used for it’s big feature, keeping everything in sync wirelessly. My web host allows me to set up my own WebDAV, which replaces iDisk nicely, but synching contacts and calendar was still an issue.
Read more on Dealing with Duplicates: iPhone & Gmail Contacts…
The release of Google Earth 5 has some pretty awesome features in it, and I think my favorite so far is the historical imagery. When you have a location up, a little clock icon in the toolbar at the top allows you to browse through past satellite images, in some cases going as far back as 1940!
I was stuck at a Borders this weekend and browsed through the latest issue of MAKE Magazine, which happens to be entirely dedicated to DIY spy-tech! There was an awesome article about building your own laser-pointer communicator device for sending super secret messages via LASER BEAM, and honestly, I can’t think of a cooler way to send super secret messages. Thankfully the giving season lingers, and MAKE has made the PDF of the article available for free online.
I was recently re-installing VMWare Fusion, as it’s very handy to have an installation of Windows around to test websites and what not. While setting up the Virtual Machine, I wondered, “What other OSes could I install while I’m at it?”
I was getting ready to watch a fantastic episode of MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” when I saw a commercial for something that looked much more interesting! I hopped over to mtvengineroom.com and watched two episodes, or, webisodes, of this new web series from MTV U and HP (I didn’t know they still made things other than free printers).
These days, I find myself using the Internet on my phone more than I do on the computer. Lucky for me, a Wordpress app for iPhone has been released, is free, an works wonderfully! Now of only they’d add copy and paste to this little thing…
The latest addition to Google’s awesome Google Earth software is, well… Sky. I don’t think it’s officially called “Google Sky”, but it might as well be, and it’s freaking awesome.
If you happen to lack a high-powered telescope, or perhaps an observatory, in your backyard, the newest version of Google Earth allows you to browse the heavens above, with constellation overlays, a moving Moon, planets, and the best of Hubble’s big shiny eye in the sky.
Read more on Google Earth Introduces Sky, Promptly Blows my Mind…