From the monthly archives:

August 2007

Transmit Gets S3 Support

August 31, 2007 · 17 comments

Transmit, my favorite FTP client for OS X, can now connect to Amazon S3 accounts. I never saw this coming but it only makes sense with more and more people using the affordable S3 as a static file host and personal file server. This quite literally makes my day, thank you Cabel and crew. [click to continue…]

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Thoughts on myAOL

August 29, 2007 · 7 comments

I know what you’re thinking. Paul writing about an AOL product is the equivalent of pigs flying or renting a studio in San Francisco for under $1000/month. There are a number of reasons you might not approve of AOL’s tactics but for now I’ll put that behind me and post my thoughts about AOL’s attempt to break their 1990’s stigma with cutting-edge personalized web services, collectively dubbed myAOL. [click to continue…]

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Groovr Revamped, Obligatory iPhone Interface

August 28, 2007 · 11 comments

Groovr, the twitter-meets-mobile-social-network-ish website I looked at in January, has been overhauled with what I think is a more fitting site design and grokkable information architecture. True to social networks, Groovr lets you upload photos and videos, maintain a profile, have friends in addition to the concept of Shout Outs (think twitters/pownces) and a Groovr-specific feature, Check-ins. [click to continue…]

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Minor Studios Open for Business

August 26, 2007 · 10 comments

Minor Studios, an interactive storytelling and design company started by the talented Dave Werner, will definitely be a company to keep an eye on for interesting creations. If you haven’t seen Dave’s portfolio, check it out now – it’s stunning. Minor Studios is backed by Minor Ventures, a venture capital firm [click to continue…]

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Disqus to Improve Blog Commenting

August 25, 2007 · 12 comments

Y Combinator startup Disqus will soon begin public testing of their interactive blog commenting service. Disqus allows users to make an account to manage their commenting and even create a forum of their own. But the real draw of Disqus is the ability for users to easily utilize the Disqus commenting [click to continue…]

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How To: Pitch Bloggers

August 22, 2007

Going a little off-topic today, I’m going to address an issue I deal with daily – public relations people sending me press releases. In general, I appreciate the effort and can often find great things I wouldn’t have found out about until after it was too late or not at all. However, if PR folk [...]

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Firefox Campus Edition.. Say What?

August 21, 2007

Later today Mozilla will do something a bit out of the ordinary and release a special “Campus Edition” of their Firefox web browser, just in time for back to school. Firefox Campus Edition is your typical run-of-the-mill Firefox release bundled with three school friendly add-ons: Zotero, FoxyTunes and StumbleUpon.

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Why Your Business Should Use IBM’s BladeCenter S

August 20, 2007

Today IBM announced the launch of a beta test with select partners, clients and vendors for their upcoming BladeCenter S. First announced in late June, the BladeCenter S will be the first desktop blade server system in addition to enhancements such as a wizard-based setup. The beta test announcement confirms that IBM is on-track and [...]

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Review: WD Passport Portable Hard Drive

August 19, 2007

Today I’ll be taking a look at Western Digital’s recently upgraded Passport series of portable hard drives; in particular, the 120GB bus-powered Passport. But Paul, didn’t you tell us to avoid generally fragile, death-prone 2.5-inch hard drives in your back to school post? That I did. When it comes to storing your data reliably,

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Benchmarked: Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion

August 18, 2007

CNET’s Crave blog beat me to the punch and published a comprehensive article comparing Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion, virtualization software for OS X, as well as Boot Camp and plain OS X. As you might expect from reading my VMware Fusion launch post, Fusion performed

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Meebo Web-based Chat Now iPhone Friendly

August 16, 2007

The incredibly popular AIM/Y!/MSN/gTalk/ICQ/Jabber chat web app Meebo is now sporting an iPhone-enhanced interface. Just visit Meebo on your iPhone to start using it. Since Apple’s iPhone doesn’t (yet) ship with an iChat-like application, instant messaging mavens have had to rely on third-party

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Satisfaction: Slick People-Powered Customer Service

August 15, 2007

We all know that customer service is a pain to deal with in most cases; waiting on hold to speak to someone in a noisy call center, not getting your problem solved and just going in circles. Some companies are better at this than others with online forums and then there are small companies that [...]

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First Impressions: Habari Blogging Platform

August 13, 2007

Take one part die-hard WordPress contributors, combine it with one part up-to-date coding environment and you get Habari. It started less than a year ago with the idea from several WordPress users who wanted more control over what features get put into their blogging platform. The main difference is what’s

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A Realistic Back to School Guide for College Students

August 10, 2007

Every year around this time some large gadget or tech website makes a back to school post. Unfortunately, they are under the preposterous assumption that college students can afford very expensive gear. Containing items such as a 55-inch plasma TV, CrunchGear’s Back to School Cheat Sheet published last year was met with mess of [...]

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On The Bleeding Edge

August 9, 2007

I have recently been keeping revisions of my shoddy coding practices with Subversion, which I ignored until I picked up a “Practical Subversion” book a few weeks ago. Naturally, I figured it only logical to expand this to my own WordPress installation, making WordPress updates as simple as a single SVN command. That’s all kittens [...]

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