Archive for: November 2007

Clever web marketing by Apple:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRAUlK8_2VE[/video]

Based on this ad:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XRflNfaBPY[/video]

Via TechCrunch

One of the things I have oh-so appreciated as of late is the Nokia Multimedia Transfer application. It has made syncing music and media from my Mac to my Nokia …

Last week, I got a surprise package at my front door: a Nokia N81 8GB, courtesy of the fine folks at Comunicano who run the Nokia Blogger Relations program. I’ve had a …

I’d much rather my kids watch the Sesame Street I grew up watching instead of the crap they pass off as Sesame Street today. Except for the Special Letters Unit segment, which is classic:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5121VjLwqZM[/video]

Apparently, eating your pipe, or anything else …

Use the Free Conference Call application on Facebook between now and 26 November 2007, and you’ll be entered into a draw where you can win an Apple iPod Touch 8gb! You …

You’re some place new. You want to let people know about the experience while it is still fresh in your mind. What do you do?

Enter LouderVoice. It’s a kind of microblogging service, but it’s geared around capturing reviews of, well, anything. You simply send a specially formatted SMS to +353-87-9409325 (That’s Ireland, if you don’t know). Your review is indexed and viewable by anyone. That review can automatically be posted to your blog, if you so desire.  Eventually, we’ll see integration with Jaiku, Twitter, MySpace, and YouTube (how’s that gonna work?).

The service is free except for whatever it costs you to send a text message to Ireland. It’s an interesting idea I plan on watching. Press release after the jump.

Man, oh man, I wrote a lot of stuff this week. Let’s get straight on with it:

Charge Your iPod With An Onion And Gatorage (From The Gadgets Weblog)…

A while ago, I was lamenting the fact that all the Facebook apps sucked. For the most part, that’s true. However, I think I found something that might actually last more

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Looks and sounds an awful lot like School House Rock…

[video]http://youtube.com/watch?v=JdYZCcATg3Q[/video]

A new version of VMware for the Mac has been released. Version 1.1 brings some cool new features to the table:

Support for Mac OS X 10.5 (a.k.a. Leopard)
DirectX 9.0 …