Posts in: Gadgets & Personal Tech
- Web working without the web
- Theresa Carpenter Sondjo of Appfrica has an excellent post about working offline, particularly in cybercafes or locations where an internet connection is not available. Mac users can replace XAMPP with MAMP.* For portable apps, there’s the OS X Portable Apps suite. If you need an offline blogging tool, you can try the ScribeFire extension for WordPress. [...] [28 Jul 2009]
- Lazy Web: What are your favorite Android apps?
- I am now the proud owner of a T-Mobile G1 running the Android operating system. I like it so far, though I wish the on-screen keyboard pas a bit more responsive. I have already installed a few applications, including Pacman, and a bar code / QR code scanner, but I’d like to take full advantage [...] [26 Jun 2009]
- Review: Nokia N800
- I received a Nokia N800 to test and review from the fine folks at WOM World, a Nokia-sponsored meta-blog. The basics The N800 runs a flavor of Linux known as OS 2008. Several software packages come loaded with the N800, including a full-featured web browser (with Flash!), e-mail client, media player, and instant messaging application. Perhaps [...] [2 Apr 2008]
- Using Amazon S3 for hard drive backups
- After reading Baratunde’s heart-wrenching post about losing an entire terabyte of data, including recordings of his late mother, I decided it was time for me to investigate some backup solutions. I half-assedly make DVD backups of my blog data and important files. But that stuff changes so frequently that a DVD system is really inadequate. An [...] [17 Sep 2007]
- Review: WorkSpace
- What would you expect from a basic text editor? Let’s create a list of features: Support for plain text Syntax highlighting for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, SQL, Java, and Perl. Limited auto-complete Ability to connect to multiple FTP servers at once Ability to upload, download, rename and delete [...] [15 May 2007]
- Pac the Man X: Freeware game for Mac OS X
- I prefer my gaming to be simple, so I <3 the classics like Frogger, Tetris and Pacman. So you know I was quite happy to see Pac the Man X, a freeware game for Mac OS X from McSebi. It’s a … well I’m not quite sure what to call it (it’s not an emulator, and [...] [19 Jan 2007]
- And with that
- My iPod has been rendered obsolete. [12 Oct 2005]