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Leopard upgrade sadness

I’m really disappointed with the stability of Leopard for me personally. I’ve never had a rougher OS X UPGRADE experience. the OS itself is great. And if you buy a new computer – or do the “archive and install” (replacing, not upgrading your old OS) everything is rosy. but for guys like me who’ve been [...]

reduced to link blogging – catCam and kameraflage

Ok I’m not usually a link-blogger but here are two gizmodo links right up my alley: One guy put a camera around kitty’s neck: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/meeowvision/mr-lee-gives-catseye-view-of-the-world-via-neckcam-283736.php And the garment industry can now create hidden messages only viewable on digital cameras. Now you can have subversive free speech only viewable to camera-toters. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/more-than-meets-the-eye/kameraflage-images-only-visible-through-a-digital-camera-282689.php Technorati Tags: catcam camera [...]

iPhone Hacks book / iPhoneDevCamp

This weekend I’m attending iPhoneDevCamp, to research iPhone Hacks for the upcoming book of the same name. It’s in San Francisco @ Adobe – friday night through sunday afternoon. If you can show up to help develop for iPhones – please do! I’m amazed how many sponsors we got for the event…. If you want [...]

Cookies: A New Hope

Streaming Media Magazine just posted one of my articles online: “The proliferation of new media channels presents an interesting conundrum: How will consumers be able to afford all these new services? The answer? …” Read the article… Technorati Tags: cookies, mobile, handhelds, monetization

US Plans Tactical Nuclear Strikes and tries to make it seem like a rational idea

Well, it seems like a number of our presidential candidates have gone down to crazy town and are blithely open to the concept of tactical nuclear strikes against Iran. This Reuter’s article, Republicans: Iran must not have nuclear arms, highlights some of the madness: Wolf Blitzer asked: “If it came down to a preemptive US [...]

Modifying ultra-mobile PCs for sunlight readability

One of the biggest challenges to “mobile computing” (besides battery life) is outdoor readability. (If you’ve ever squinted through your sunglasses trying to dial on your windows mobile phone, you know what I’m talking about). Recently I had an old EO 72xx UMPC upgraded to a transflective screen. It cost a few hundred dollars for [...]

Electrical protection for toddlers – too interesting to leave alone

There are these little plastic protectors that go over electrical sockets to protect them from toddlers. This morning while vacuuming the vacuum suddenly stopped… and on the other end of the line, my son had yanked the cord and was replacing the plastic cover, presumably to keep it safe from babies. Technorati Tags: children, electricity, [...]

Malls are for cars, not pedestrians ;(

I’ve lived in short walking distance from the Topanga Westfield mall for nearly a decade. I have been there literally hundreds of times with my daughter. They recently doubled the size of the mall, adding an Apple store, a 2-story carousel, a Target, and a bunch of amenities. The problem is, it has always been [...]

Monetizing Podcasts & Videoblogs

A recent article I wrote, Monetizing Podcasts & Videoblogs, was just published in Streaming Media magazine and has now been reprinted on streamingmedia.com. “Any business built around podcasts and videoblogs has to start with the fundamentals: Compelling content that can be exchanged with an audience for their attention. Still, the past two years have taught [...]

Maker’s Faire Nash Exhibit – How it went

Hi, I’m Adam Stolarz, Damien’s brother and carputer hacker cohort. We just got done showing off our restored and computerized Nash at the Maker’s Faire. So I was in charge of demonstrating the Nash’s computer features and GUI, and quite a few people said they had seen the original Nash blurb page but didn’t feel [...]

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