OK. Maybe not, but I really want this to be a reality and then I really want one. Mactab by Yann Le Coroller Ultra portable, Mactab is the complement to MacBook. The incredibly thin wireless keyboard is used as a protection cover for transportation. It stays in place with a […]
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From my brother’s blog. I will try and post the first portion of this tonight. The Brothers podcast…again! Well, we decided to record another phone conversation. This is actually the second half of our conversation, where we tackled the “after show” topics. We start with my theory that by offering […]
Christopher Heard at Higgaion has written about trying out the new Nisus Writer Pro. For those who are unfamiliar with NW, it was an amazing and powerful word processor in the 90’s for the MacOS (I cannot remember how early, but through OS 9). One of the things that made […]
My brother has finally convinced me to sign up for Skype. For those who do not know what this is in brief it allows you to use your computer, connected to a high speed network, to call other computers anywhere in the world for free and other (regular) phones for […]
This past weekend my brother-in-law pulled a black case out of the basement. There, neatly organized into its separate compartments, was the Mac SE (OS 7.0.1) that I had lent him when E and I had gotten married and headed to England. It had a USC (So. Carolina) sticker on […]
The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em… March 8, 2007 If You Can’t Beat ‘Em… Nicola Pratt, a lecturer in international relations at the University of East Anglia, in England, tells The Guardian that she was once one of those “disgruntled” academics who berate students for using […]
In keeping with our earlier post about Googlebombing, I thought readers might find this interesting. (Via Slashdot.) Why “Yahoo” Is The #1 Search Term On Google An anonymous reader writes “Google Trends indicates that over the course of the past year the search term “Yahoo” became more popular than “sex”, […]
Today through Wednesday I am in Atlanta at the Educause Learning Initiative conference. Main conference site here here. They will be blogging and podcasting many of the sessions so those interested should trot on over to http://connect.educause.edu/term_veiw/ELI2007 (NB it is not live yet, since the sessions haven’t started!). The sessions […]
What can I say? This gorgeous. For photos and live texting updates see MacRumorsLive. The Apple Store is back up and running. The iPhone is now listed along with the AppleTV. (It looks like the “wide screen, touch screen iPod IS the iPhone… shame, that should be a separate product.) […]
I meant to post this last week, but the trip got in the way. For those wondering about the need for (and lack of) Mac Office converters once the new Windows version of Office comes out: Converters Coming! Free and (Fairly) Fast. There’s been some pretty alarmist news stories this […]