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The Tiny MIghty Link

flickr foto Chain Of Entropyavailable on flickr It’s time to wax again on the sheer giddy glory of stumbling onto web gems by the serendipity of curious link clicking. It started in my RSS feeds, scanning an entry on Net Neutrality Comes Home to Haddam in Mike Roy’s new blog, Digital Incunabula. I actually didn’t […]

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See Polly Translate

Language translation via Babelfish? That is soooooo Web 1.0. Check out Polly Glotta, the text to speech language translator: You type a phrase in the top form, select a language translation pair (English to Dutch, French to Italian, etc). Polly not only translate the text of the phrase, she also speaks it out loud! She’s […]

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Free Is Good At The Airport

I’m again at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport for another jaunt out of town. I recalled reading somewhere online a few weeks ago that the airport was offering free wireless, not the pay through your nose service that was there before. Sure enough, flipping open the laptop, there it is: This is a welcome change from […]

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Feed2JS Beta With Enclosures

Rightfully so, people have been requesting the Feed2JS be able to display content referenced in RSS 2.0 or podcast feeds. Until now, these enclusore tags have been ignored because it is not supported in the underlying MagpieRSS library code. It turns out there is a fairly simple patch / adjustment to the Magpie code that […]

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iAudio Spinning

flickr foto iAudio and Shuffleavailable on my flickr My new iAudio U3 is so tiny and light you’d think it might float away.. but it can carry 1 Gb of stuff. Here is relaxes next to my Shuffle My iAudio U3 MP3 player/recorder prompty arrived and I am just starting to play with it. I […]

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Mouse Convert

flickr foto Mouse, No Tailavailable on my flickr Ha, I am eating my own crow. After baseless ridicule of 3 button mice, I am now loving my Kensington mini Bluetooth critter, on both sides of the operating systems in my MacBookPro. Right clicking saves key-click combos for the Mac, and on Windows on the Intel […]