Hosting your own Mastodon server
Join the Fediverse on your own terms
Join the Fediverse on your own terms
Thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon, and owning your data
Thoughts on elevating product quality
Taking a look back and using a 20 year old iPod today.
Thoughts on design challenges facing crypto/web3 today.
I created Crypto Mondrians, a set of code-generated art NFTs on the blockchain.
Building your own iOS app is easier than ever with SwiftUI.
Saving money when dealing with many email addresses and domains
A few thoughts on designing and building as I reflect on what I learned in 2020.
A few thoughts on my new favorite pen, the BaronFig Squire.
Getting back into RSS with a modern RSS reader.
What side projects mean to me.
Why I decided to move away from Amazon S3 and host this website with Netlify.
I'm going to try something different and write more short-form posts here.
How to stay safe online and prevent phishing with FIDO2, WebAuthn and security keys.
Why it was time to say bye to San Francisco.
How the 12.9-inch iPad Pro took me by surprise and replaced my laptop.
Why I switched to Windows and built a water-cooled 5.2GHz 6-core editing machine
Thoughts after one month with the wireless carrier
Thoughts on blogging and why I'm still doing it
How 12TB of network-attached storage changed my digital life and why you need it too.
A look into the design and prototyping process behind Twitter Video on iOS and Android.
How and why I create photo stories.
Everything you need to know about how drones work, how to fly them and modify them.
Why motion design is now a required skill for designers.
As designers we love to focus on simplifying interfaces. We clasp Dieter Rams' 10 principles. But what about decluttering and crafting something useful with the content that lives inside these interfaces?
This static site is now hosted entirely on Amazon S3 with CloudFront along with Route 53 for DNS. Here's how you can do the same.
How I fell in love with Android and how you can too.
There comes a time in every photographer's life when they must ask themselves what to do about all those terabytes of photo RAWs.
Wherein I realize how to own less, worry less and live more.
The final part in the responsive design and development series, this post covers responsive images and HiDPI assets.
This is how I work and what software and hardware I use to do it.
How I began building the responsive, mobile-first redesign of this Jekyll-based site.
Yes, this is a post announcing that I have joined the team at Twitter as a designer.
Responsive design and how I thought about it when redesigning this site.
Google recently released a new iPhone app for Gmail this week to much fanfare. After the third blog post citing how "slick" it was, I gave it a go myself. I currently use Sparrow for...
How do you attract great talent to your startup? It's all about the company culture.
In case you didn't catch it, I wrote my first TechCrunch guest post earlier this month. It's aptly named First-Time Startup Entrepreneurs: Stop Fucking Around and it's my take on how first-time startuppers should work...
Chrome for iOS is damn good — even if I can't set it as default.
A year ago I wrote about how I wanted to build a Hackintosh. Oddly enough, exactly a year later, I ended up getting around to it.
Here's a GitHub impact graph of every Skribit code commit. Starting from November 2007 during Startup Weekend (hence all the contributors initially), progressing through to when I began working full-time on Skribit in 2009, when...
A chat with Votizen Co-founder Jason Putorti.
How I was able to work long startup hours and stay sane.
Over the past two weeks of traveling I have been using the Jawbone Jambox wireless bluetooth speaker extensively. I have concluded that it is quite possible the best thing ever created for frequent travelers1. Great...
How do you collaborate on work when you and your cofounder are on a 6.5 hour wifi-less flight and couldn't get adjacent seats? Create an ad-hoc wifi network and use bonjour messaging in iChat. I'm...
When was the last time you were so enthused about a product you actually wanted to pay your friends to get on it with you? Venmo is that magical service for me. It's a fantastic...
I recently ran out of space on my iPhone 4S and did my yearly ritual of moving last year's photos off of my phone. Here's what my iPhone-taken photo and video stats look like:
I'm at home in Houston for the holidays and of course working on Picplum stuff when I'm not chasing my 18-month old nephew around. I'm used to working on my 27-inch Apple display so hacking...
After months of hearing about CoffeeScript and having it on my to-do list week after week, I finally got around to really reading up on it during my flight from SFO to IAH. I tweeted...
It was the middle of our Y Combinator batch this summer. Akshay and I had a decently functioning version of Picplum that we were continuing to test and polish up. At the end of our...
After a gracious introduction to the BBC by Mr Amit Gupta, I appeared in a short BBC News segment about the Silicon Valley startup scene as compared to the NYC startup community. Click the screenshot...
Head over to OpenDNS and install DNSCrypt for Mac. DNSCrypt, in a nutshell, encrypts all DNS traffic between you and OpenDNS. If you've been reading my blog since the early days, you've already been up...
Akshay and I just rolled out our Picplum gift page after receiving countless emails from people asking how they could buy gift Picplum to friends and family. Powered by Stripe, of course.
After I mentioned that I was no longer happy with my Dr Dre Beats Studio headphones in a recent blog post, The Coding Zone, a mysterious package arrived from Amazon. It was a pair of...
I've learned there are three main things that set me up for a productive programming session.
It was exactly one year ago that I received my first Kindle and fell in love with it. Why? They distilled the essence of a simple, superb reading experience into a lightweight, affordable and hassle-free...
I've been playing with my Canon EOS 7D for about a week now. Just wanted to share a few recent shots. My workflow involves Adobe Lightroom 3, which I have grown to absolutely love. It's...
Well that didn't take long. About a year after I wrote about how much I liked my Sony Alpha NEX-5 camera, I have gone back to big DSLR land. I purchased a Canon EOS 7D...
Hey there! We've haven't spoken in some time. My apologies. For the past 2.5 months I have been keeping busy with my latest startup, Picplum. In this post I hope to dive far, far into...
Just a heads up that I launched my Y Combinator startup, Picplum, last week! That's why I have been heads-down for the last few months.
After seeing a fellow founder at a Y Combinator dinner this week running the GM seed of Mac OS X Lion without any issues I ended up installing it on my MacBook Pro.
As you have no doubt noticed my posting has slowed down a bunch recently. The reason? I am now working on my third startup and going through Y Combinator's Summer 2011 batch. It started earlier...
I have been thinking about building a hackintosh lately. If you have experience with this, I would love a few pointers in the comments.
Back when the Pentium 4E "Prescotts" were causing an outrage in the computer modding community for notoriously overheating, and around when Steve Jobs failed to deliver on his promise of 3GHz from the G5, I...
My co-founder, Jazzychad, is rolling out his latest iPad app today. It's called VorePad and it's the best (and first) iPad client for Convore. Convore of course is the latest online forum and chat site...
I just emailed all the users of my first startup, Skribit, saying that we will be pulling the plug. For those interested, here is the notice I sent:
I recently stumbled across screenshots of old websites of mine and was hurled into a state of reminiscent shock. I knew they were bad, but wow they were outstandingly horrible (redeemed only by their microformats...
David Whitehouse has a great SEO guide talking about how to deal with duplicate content on your site. I consider this a must read for anyone that deals with websites and online publishing. Anyone who...
Microsoft sent us a Windows Phone 7 device for development purposes. Chad opted for the Samsung Focus phone. We have not tinkered with it too much so here are just some unboxing pictures and preliminary...
In case you didn't see the news yesterday, Amazon launched a music in the cloud service called Cloud Player. Upload your music to Amazon Cloud Drive (also just announced) via their Adobe AIR uploader tool...
My preferred usenet host for the last 3 years, Giganews, is on their way to hitting a massive milestone: 1,000 day binary retention. Want a refresher on what usenet/newsgroups are all about and why you...
Learning to code is not all kittens and daisies. It's tough stuff but fortunately the Internet is loaded with a surfeit of resources to get you started. They vary from "Teach Yourself X in 7...
I make for one bad tech pundit. I proclaimed I was content with my BlackBerry Curve and saw no need for the first iPhone. Three iPhones later, I said the same of the iPhone 4,...
If you're looking for the best bang for your buck when it comes to laptop hard drives, look no further than the 500GB Seagate Momentus XT. I picked one up as my internal media and...
Last week was interesting. Chad and I took a random idea — a "photo off" FaceMash-like site built on the Instagram real-time API — from whiteboard to successful launch. The premise is simple: Pic A...
As a user of both WakeMate and Fitbit for the past few months, numerous people have asked me which they should buy. I don't think that's the right question. While both have a bit of...
Well how about that. Just last week I was talking about how the Motorola Xoom was looking impressive and Android Honeycomb seemed promising. Now I'm swayed over to Apple's new iPad 2 offering. Let me...
There has been a plethora of noise surrounding the upcoming version of OS X, Lion. So much so that I logged into my developer account, downloaded the 10.7 Lion developer preview and installed it on...
Apple is weird when it comes to adopting new technologies. They were early with FireWire 800 and Mini DisplayPort, yet while competitors have been shipping laptops with Blu-ray drives for years Apple has oddly stayed...
I must say, I am getting more and more intrigued by current tablet offerings. I do not own a tablet device, nor have I found the need to own one in the last year when...
If you've been following along since my move to San Francisco, I have been in this minimalism phase where I prefer owning less. I sold many gadgets and things I owned — from a 50-inch...
Soon the market will be flooded with devices toting Wi-Fi Direct capabilities. Now is the time to read up on the new lingo. Let's just hope Wi-Fi Direct isn't a failure like the first Wireless...
As the title implies, one of my SSDs is pretty much dead. I had a few random kernel panics and system freezing over the last week, then today the screen flickered, turned red and the...
Despite tons of press surrounding Henge Docks, I only recently heard about it while reading about Matt Biddulph's setup. My curiosity piqued as I got up to speed on what Henge Docks was all about;...
I recently wiped my MacBook Pro and did a complete, fresh install of OS X. It has been over a year since my last clean install and it was definitely overdue. I am taking Ethan...
I just realized you can let anyone upload to your Amazon S3 account with a simple HTML POST form. There's a guide on up on the official AWS site... from 2008, so I'm obviously a...
A few months ago I was in the market for some high quality earbuds, just ahead of several holiday flights across the country. While I was still content with my Beats Studio by Dr. Dre...
Over the winter vacation I relaxed and spent time away from thinking about the startup fundraising process. I had a latent interest in Jekyll ever since Tom Preston-Werner (Cofounder of GitHub) created, released and wrote...
I always seem to return to wired peripherals. After a year of using the Apple wireless keyboard I put it in the closet and began using the wired compact Apple keyboard. I just hated changing...
The next episode in the Notifo saga begins today. My co-founder Chad put the finishing touches on the first public release of the Notifo Android app beta. Installation details can be found on the Android...
I was chatting with Harper Reed last night about my recently deployed migration of this blog from WordPress to Jekyll. Harper also made a similar migration late last year (though his setup is hosted on...
Congrats! You're reading the very first bit on this blog. In the 5+ years I have run PaulStamatiou.com I have secretly wanted to be able to post more than just technology related articles. Eventually it...
"Which one of you is going to be doing the fundraising?" queried a calm and collected Tom Robinson while in a loud venue one Saturday evening at a Startup School after-party. Tom had good reason...
I'm no stranger to large, fluffy and unusual beanbag-esque furniture. During freshman year of college, some hallmates had a massive Lovesac that one guy actually used as a bed somehow. A few years later I...
I've had an interesting past with large monitors. Back in 2007 while I was still in college, I decided to purchase a Dell 30-inch LCD display. Astute PSTAM fans noticed that display in the background...
As the price per GB of SSDs has decreased steadily since I bought my first 700 80GB SSD in 2008, more and more questions have been emerging about wear leveling, TRIM concerns and SSD performance...
Between my posts about SSH tunnels, VPNs and whole disk encryption, you might gather that I am a bit more paranoid about computer security than the typical web user. It started in 2006 during my...
I'll be the first to say that I am emphatically not a leisure reader. I rarely do any offline reading away from my computer. With the exception of skimming interesting technical reference books1, the occasional...
Many of you will have noticed some changes around here. My posting frequency on this blog has gone down a bunch and my online presence has been silent except for some sporadic tweets. I have...
Three years ago I wrote How To: Bulletproof Server Backups with Amazon S3, a post where I showed off a basic cron job'd script I used to backup my entire server to S3 nightly. I...
I recently decided to change the way I was taking care of my body. It should be no surprise that I am always on my computer – at least 12-15 hours per day. I am...
Just over a year ago I wrote an article called Thoughts on Netbooks where I discussed the current state of the netbook landscape. Ultimately I ended that article saying that I didn't think netbook software...
While it went on sale back in May, A List Apart's first publication, HTML5 for Web Designers, only just began shipping. I have been eagerly awaiting my copy and it just arrived. I'm not normally...
For the last few years I have written a blog post on my birthday. This birthday is no exception but while working late at Notifo tonight I decided to have some fun with it. Chad...
Have you ever wanted to get more out of your home network, like adding a NAS, without ponying up for expensive hard drives with Ethernet built-in, Time Capsules, Drobos or the like? While some newer...
Just over 5 weeks ago I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to seek new opportunities. I had no idea what I wanted to shift my full-time focus to and began connecting with people,...
Hot on the heels of my quick review of the Sprint HTC EVO 4G, I'd like to take a minute to share my thoughts on the latest iPhone announced at WWDC today here in San...
For the last week I have been toting around two mobile phones: my usual iPhone 3GS workhorse with extended battery a la Mophie and the just-launched-today Sprint HTC EVO 4G on loan from Gregory Miller....
Media Temple has listened to the masses and finally made a VPS offering aimed at developers and advanced users. While their (dv) Dedicated-Virtual VPS offerings allowed users to have root access and the ability to...
Early last month I detailed my plans for moving to California for friends, a change of scenery and of course the acclaimed high-tech hub in the San Francisco Bay Area. Many have contacted me asking...
In preparation for my move to San Francisco I have started selling many of my electronics and sundry possessions. Unfortunately, this included my absolute favorite technology purchase in recent years — the KRK Rokit RP5G2...
Next month I will be moving to San Francisco — roughly 6 years after I moved to Atlanta, enrolled in Computer Engineering as a Georgia Tech freshman. I soon realized my interests involved the Internet,...
Last year I wrote about my experience at the 2009 South By Southwest Interactive Festival as a first-timer. I gave it 10 out of 10 Stammys and had a fantastic time. I just got back...
Okay I know what you're thinking — why is some genetics testing service being reviewed on Stammy's tech blog? Well for one, because 23andMe is at the forefront of technology that is slowly but surely...
Startup Riot, the biggest and most interesting tech event (in my mind) hits Atlanta for its third year. You might remember the first two Startup Riots which I blogged about: I presented at the Startup...
There are two things I do not usually talk about on this blog — cars (okay maybe there are one, two, three, four, five or more exceptions) and iPhone applications. The former because I am...
In late 2008 I wrote about my experience using the first generation 80GB Intel X25-M SSD — my first SSD. I had to pay the early adopter tax for that SSD, so it cost me...
Knowing how to keep your web traffic data safe while browsing the web on unknown networks is a vital skill that not enough savvy Internet surfers take part in. I have previously discussed a few...
Blippy is my pick for startup to watch this year (with Square being close by). Blippy enables people to automatically share their purchases done through a variety of services, such as Amazon, iTunes, Netflix and...
I was recently in the market for an affordable, HD-capable pocket video camera. I knew Pure Digital's Flip line of pocket camcorders like the Mino HD and Ultra HD were very popular in this space...
I always found it a bit ironic that I had less time to blog here as I started working full-time on a blogging startup. Well, my time spent on Skribit is starting to pay off....
For those of you that have been reading for a while (thanks!), it's no surprise that I am a music fan. I wouldn't quite say audiophile as I don't find the need to spend sizable...
On April 25th, 2009, I picked up a 2011 Ford Fiesta for what would be the next 7 months as 1 of 100 hand-picked Ford Fiesta Movement "Agents." Okay, well technically it is a European-spec...
The third year of Atlanta Startup Weekend is less than a week away and begins Friday November 13th and goes through Sunday night. I am definitely biased as I have attended the last two Startup...
The saga continues as I go to all lengths to find 5 bars of cell phone reception at home. It first started when I moved into my new apartment. I didn't think to check my...
Last week I had the pleasure of attending NoSQL East 2009, a new conference based around the non-relational data stores that I briefly covered in this post. In short, it was a rather intimate and...
TechDrawl, an up and coming Atlanta-based blog representing technology, startups and entrepreneurs in the US census South (D.C. to Texas), often helps out local entrepreneurs with things like attending conferences that interest them through holding...
By the time you read this, Microsoft's latest attempt at making a decent desktop operating system (I kid, I kid), dubbed Windows 7, will have been released worldwide. I took it upon myself (and my...
So you've built a fancy new HTPC, with a custom case that fits perfectly into your home theater setup, but without fail you're still using a wireless keyboard and mouse created with desktop use in...
There's a new tech conference coming to Atlanta at the end of the month. Unlike other events I have covered and attended, this one is for those who not only develop websites but also deal...
This past weekend I drove over to Birmingham, Alabama, for WordCamp Birmingham 2009. This was their second WordCamp and brought out some 180 people — three times larger than their first one last year. This...
Two years ago during a trip to San Francisco I met up with entrepreneur Steli Efti. He had previously contacted me and told me a bit about his story. He bought a one-way ticket from...
It started out like any typical Friday morning. I snoozed the iPhone alarm about 5 times then got a late start to the morning and did a groggy stumble to the desk to check email...
Two years ago I wrote one of my most popular articles, A Realistic Back to School Guide for College Students (and off-campus edition). In it I talked about how great cheap black and white laser...
Every once in a while I get the chance to check out some different kinds of gadgets - ones that I wouldn't normally buy on my own. At first it was the 699 USD Wicked...
Alright, so you're pretty down with the tech scene. You've gone to more BarCamps than you care to list, have a few WordCamps under your belt, maybe a Startup Weekend or two, and perhaps a...
Welcome to the third and likely final part of my series on High Dynamic Range photography. In the first part I covered what HDR imaging actually is and how it works while the second part...
This post is part of a series detailing what High Dynamic Range photography (well, there's no such thing as HDR photography.. take photos first, use HDR process to come up with HDR images, not photos)...
When it comes to music, I am a complete maniac. I must have some new, non-overplayed songs to get any work done. That's why I invested in a solid studio monitor setup and that's why...
It has been quite a while since my last update on what I actually do for a living - work on the startup Skribit. Okay, well to be technically correct this blog is more of...
You have probably heard of a company called GrandCentral a few years ago. They made big news with their September 2006 beta launch of their service allowing people to use a single phone number for...
Thanks to my second Ford Fiesta Movement mission (much more on this later once I get around to reviewing the 2011 Fiesta), I recently jumped head first into HDR photography. HDR, short for High Dynamic...
While inflight Internet access isn't anything new, especially to airlines like Virgin America and JetBlue, I finally got my first whiff of it this past weekend on an Airtran flight. The particular Boeing 717-200 I...
Not much to say today other than I'm now 23 years of age! Posting around here has been a little slow and will continue to be for a while. I caught some virus and have...
I recently did the unthinkable. I changed the URL structure of my blog's URLs. Long considered a scary territory, along with moving domains, due to the SEO implications and potential for losing traffic, I was...
If you live in Atlanta, you'll be happy to hear that there's a new ISP in town. And I'm not talking about just any type of Internet connection. I'm talking about WiMAX (read my Thoughts...
Not too long ago I mentioned how I moved to a new apartment but was very disappointed to learn that I now live in an AT&T dead zone. A bit of testing has proved that...
Those of you that have been following me online for the past few years might know that I maintain a healthy interest in cars in addiction addition to my tech obsession. It wasn't too long...
I take a lot of pictures for reviews on this blog, most with a Nikon D90 DSLR camera. A good chunk of my time on larger reviews is actually spent reviewing hundreds of images, then...
Things will be a bit slow around here until I find my bearings again. I just moved to another apartment this past weekend. There were a few reasons for moving, from wanting to find cheaper...
From time to time, I have confessed my love for the Vudu set-top box that instantly streams up to 720p quality HD movies (or 1080p quality non-instant) over the Internet to your TV. The Vudu...
If you haven't caught wind of Microsoft's Laptop Hunters advertisements by now, well you're lucky. They're a series of (hopefully only) six ads meant to take a jab at Apple's successful "Get A Mac" commercials....
It has been almost 2 years since the last time I had a significant redesign of this blog. I figured it was time to start tinkering again. Instead of relying on the same blog theme...
The other day I was talking with local entrepreneur Sanjay Parekh about a domain I had recently purchased. He commented on how it was rather short and could be also be used as a URL...
The title of this post might be a little cryptic to those not familiar with the Apache webserver, but this post is a sort of followup to Paul Buchheit's recent post "Make your site faster...
The world's largest and most popular BitTorrent tracker used for finding everything from music to movies and computer applications has always had its share of high-profile legal issues. Despite snags like their 2006 server raid...
With all the noise about netbooks over the last 2 years and a Skribit suggestion on the same matter, I think I'm overdue for a post divulging my thoughts on netbooks. First off, what are...
BackType is aiming to solve a long-standing problem that reared its face when blogs met new forms social media and news sites. The problem I'm referring to is comment separation anxiety. Comments have feelings too....
The year was 2004 and I was 17. I was on a Boeing 747 jumbo jet headed from Houston to Amsterdam on my way to Athens. It was a rather empty flight so I had...
My last startup update discussed Skribit's recent redesign and entrance into the GRA/TAG Business Launch competition. Since then a few things have been keeping us busy. For one, we have had more and more server...
Before I left for SXSWi I created and sent Skribit's first email campaign to a subset of our users. There are quite a few email marketing solutions on the market but I went with MailChimp....
I just got back from Austin, Texas the other day and I'm still recovering. I was in Austin for the famed South By Southwest Interactive Festival. This was my first time. You can describe it...
This year I will finally be attending the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. I've always wanted to attend but school has been in the way. SXSW has been called "spring break for web developers" by...
When I wrote that I couldn't live without my Vudu box, I already had a Linux HTPC hooked up to my TV and still thought Vudu rocked. Why was that? There was no easy interface...
Shotput Ventures is a new technology startup accelerator fund (some might call it an incubator but technically it's not since, among other things, the companies don't work out of the investor's space) sprouting in Atlanta....
In January I mentioned that I was invited to come aboard the selection committee for the Technology Association of Georgia's Top 40 innovative companies competition. As part of the 15-person committee, gave my perspective and...
The last few weeks of working on Skribit have been proved to be rewarding. It's finally gotten to a point where it's noticeable that we are making some progress with product development. This past Friday...
Those of you that have been following this blog for a while know that I have been in a cycle of switching between Firefox and Safari as my primary browser almost regularly. I've even gone...
The title of this post might be a little confusing for those not up on their Twitter happenings. First off, Twestival was an event facilitated by Twitter users with parties held in different cities (over...
Startup Riot, a day-long networking and startup pitching event organized by Sanjay Parekh, was held at the Twelve Hotel today and much like the last one, was a huge success. Startup Riot is one of...
I may be rather late to the party but I recently discovered Iconfactory's xScope last week while graphic designer Justin Ruckman was in town working on the next version of Skribit. I saw him using...
The location sharing bubble might have started back in ye olde Loopt days but now everyone is on the bandwagon: Yahoo! with Fire Eagle (Fire Bagel as once internally called by Y! employees), Google with...
Almost a year ago I wrote a now somewhat outdated article titled Startup 101: Tools for the Job. A suggestion on my Skribit account asked me to delve into the software I use on a...
Not too long ago Calvin pushed out the suggestion for this post to the Atlanta Startups group on Skribit. I figured I would tackle this post now that it is still early in the year....
There aren't too many notable annual tech events in Atlanta (okay I lied there are all of these and SoCon) but one of the big names is the Technology Association of Georgia's annual summit and...
As a follow-up to my post detailing my first week of full-time work at Skribit, this post will talk about my adaptation to the working from home lifestyle as well as how work is going....
Over the last few months I have spotted more and more people toting diminutive USB flash drives, similar to 2005's oddly failed SD Plus form factor memory cards. The flash drives I am talking about...
It has been a while since I have written about my move to an HD home theater setup. Going HD: Part 1 detailed the arrival of Samsung's 50-inch plasma HDTV while Going HD: Part 2...
I'm sorry to disappoint - this post has nothing to do with the Apple keynote at Macworld 2009, iTunes going completely DRM-free, the new 17-inch MacBook Pro with an 8 hour battery life, or a...
Last year I wrote a tech new year's resolution post where I wrapped up the year and listed my goals for 2008. I stated that I wanted to reduce clutter in my life in regards...
The in-the-works Janus Privacy Adapter is, hands down, the coolest piece of networking hardware I've seen (via hackaday) all year. The so-called Privacy Adapter has two RJ45 ethernet jacks and is intended to be placed...
It is not very often I find a software application that saves me time, doesn't require much work on my end and actually gets used often. GrabUp (free, or 20 paid account) is one of...
Note: I wrote this post 7 months ago while the recently acquired and shutdown Pownce was working on a music service. As a big web-based music service user (listening to The Hype Machine right now),...
This weekend I graduated ("got out" in GT lingo) from Georgia Tech, bearing the honors distinction no less. I have been looking forward to writing this single blog post for years. Ever since I started...
Amazon's Simple Storage Service, S3, is quite wonderful. It's cheap, secure and virtually infinite in storage capacity. Some people have begun utilizing S3 to host files for their website that would otherwise be expensive in...
Believe it or not, I have never used a calendar to keep track of events or anything in general. For one, I just didn't have enough stuff going on in my life that couldn't be...
Update: Thank you everyone for entering this contest, I was completely blown away by the number of submissions (over 770 comments!). That's more comments than any other PSTAM.com post has ever received, by a margin...
Over a year ago I first got my hands on the innovative Vudu set-top box and reviewed its movie streaming capabilities. Unlike the countless gadgets and devices that I come across, I have not outgrown...
Back in 2005 I wrote an very basic article on how to change icons in OS X with ones you find online at sites like Interface Lift. Unfortunately, that method of icon swapping only works...
Update: Apple replaced my Air with a new Rev A. I just went to the Apple Store, told them that it had a non-US keyboard from an error on their part and asked if I...
I use Flickr a lot. I have over 12,000 photos on my Flickr account, with over 500 coming from my iPhone alone (with over 2,000 on my iPhone as mentioned in this post). I was...
I was going to title this post "Atlanta Startup Weekend 2 Brings New Skribit Feature" but then I went through my Skribit account and saw that there are a lot of suggestions asking me Skribit-related...
I've been using the new MacBook Pro as my primary computer for the last two weeks now. Equipped with an already outdated Intel X25-M SSD (SanDisk is working on something "100 times" faster) I put...
After slapping an Intel X25-M solid state drive in my MacBook Pro I received a few inquiries from readers asking if it was safe to use PGP Whole Disk Encryption with SSDs being known for...
It has almost been a year since I wrote about the future of computing and how I thought that it was all about Solid State Drives (this was before I became infatuated with the cloud)....
Ever since I purchased my MacBook Air 8 months ago, it has been my primary machine. I did everything on it, with the exception of HD movie viewing which was outsourced to my HTPC setup....
That's what Valleywag author Paul Boutin wants me to do in his latest Wired magazine article aptly-titled Kill Your Blog. Don't worry, I am definitely not going to heed Mr Boutin's so-called advice and I'm...
It doesn't matter which part of the Intarwebs you reside, you have probably heard something about today's Apple event - the invitation to which was titled "the spotlight turns to notebooks." The typical Apple blog...
While it may sound like some paltry attempt to evangelize another form of Wi-Fi connectivity, WiMax is a substantially different technology that's aiming high. Why is this something to familiarize yourself with? Last week WiMAX...
A few weeks ago I learned about the Apple recall of their ("impossibly small" as Steve Jobs would say) iPhone 3G USB power adapter. Apparently the prongs are at risk of separating from the adapter...
Update: The winner has been chosen. As I announced two weeks ago, I am starting my giveaway today. Quick refresher: HP provided me and 14 other bloggers with an HP laptop and a bunch of...
When you talk to accomplished programmers, it's no shock to hear they began programming at a very young age. Unfortunately, I was not the same way and did not grow up programming. I was much...
AskMeGo is a recently launched company that aims to engage website visitors with their live Q&A toolbar. However, their plans go much further than the toolbar. AskMeGo enables publishers and their users to tap into...
Last week I made the upgrade from the Nikon D80 to the new Nikon D90. The D90's claim to fame is that it is first DSLR camera to feature video recording. This lets me consolidate...
Admittedly, I have been living a happy life in Appleland for the past few years and haven't stopped to check out what's been brewing in the PC world. Now that I have been tinkering with...
As part of a new-fangled viral marketing promotion with Hewlett Packard and marketing agency BuzzCorps, I will be giving away an HP laptop and lots of goodies along with 14 other college-oriented blogs. As you...
JamLegend is well on its way to becoming the latest online gaming craze. A product of LaunchBox Digital, a Washington, D.C. based early-stage startup incubator, - sorry, they prefer to be called accelerator - JamLegend...
Dropbox is the recently-launched YCombinator-backed startup that aims to seamlessly sync files between multiple computers as well as act as a conduit for backing up files to the proverbial cloud. They have been the subject...
For the past 5 years I have owned the same set of Logitech 2.1 Z-2200 speakers. They have served me well in college and the large subwoofer made for an excellent footrest. However, they are...
I had forums on this site a very long time ago but nothing ever really happened with them. After the prodding of Andrew McCuller (a Mac Genius at an Apple Store, among other things), I've...
This past weekend I discovered that this blog is the #1 search result on Google (U.S. Google.com) for Paul. I will probably jinx my ranking by talking about it but at least I've gotten my...
Last week I boasted about the release of PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac OS X and how it is definitely something to consider if data privacy is of utmost importance to you. By encrypting...
Around this time last year, I wrote a lengthy post detailing items that incoming college students would need to get settled into their new environment. That article ended up becoming one of the most popular...
It's all too often that laptops are stolen and data like company secrets and employee social security numbers is divulged to unauthorized sources. It's not just that; there are a number of reasons why you...
Living the cloud life is only part of the equation; traveling light and easily being able to move your workspace from your home to class, a coffee shop, a coworking space or office are just...
There's no doubt about it, I'm in love with the cloud. Some people might not share my fascination with storage-in-the-cloud and compute-in-the-cloud models but I can't wait to have the same computing experience regardless of...
The next gadget in my sights is actually a point-and-shoot camera. But why the downgrade from the DSLR? Nope, I'm not looking for a DSLR replacement - rather a complement. There are just some situations...
It's finally happening. A big tech event I've actually heard about before is coming to Atlanta. It's called Webmaster Jam Session and it is a forum for designers, developers and the rest of the lot...
Not too long ago I accidentally dropped my MacBook Air onto a hard floor and the screen cracked. I knew that I did not have the time or patience to let Apple take it away...
There's a new kid on the block when it comes to web-based applications for creatives. It's called Aviary and I don't believe I have ever seen anything like it. Aviary is soon to become a...
I have been using the iPhone 3G ever since I waited in line and bought one a bit over two weeks ago. The big question people ask me is if it's worth the 199 USD...
For the next week, I will be completely unwired as I embark on a camping trip with several friends (an electrical engineering student and three pre-law students) in the Middle of No Where, Texas (about...
I know what you're thinking - another lounge chair review? Not too long ago I purchased a Sumo Omni and declared it to be the ultimate blogger's chair for its ability to conform to variety...
I've never been a fan of bluetooth earpieces. I always thought it was kind of weird to see people walking along and seemingly talking to themselves, or emitting a bright blue pulse from a LED...
Unlike the name implies, Apple's MacBook Air laptop is not lighter than Air nor does it float on Air or any such nonsense. It is actually quite prone to falling and the minimalist nature of...
For the past three weeks I have been toting around a Nikon D300 camera, courtesy of John Ratcliffe-Lee and his team at the MWW Group. While my Nikon D80 is considered an entry-level DSLR camera,...
Earlier last week I had the chance to attend and speak at a private TTI/Vanguard conference entitled Generation Techs. Due to the nature of the conference I am not allowed to say who was in...
Taking a note from Hulu, CBS launched an HD video player not too long ago. Their HD video gallery sports streamed, ad-supported clips and full episodes from their primetime shows. The site is plastered with...
Now that I have recovered from my jet lag, I have been catching up on news, the biggest story being the iPhone 3G launch that I missed. Well, not entirely - there were quite a...
As a reminder, I am in Rome for a while attending and speaking at the TTI/Vanguard "Generation Techs" conference so there won't be any typical PSTAM posts until I return early next week. I have...
Many people have predicted what the future of the Internet holds. To each his own comes to mind as there are many different takes on what that future will be like. For some that future...
It's no secret that I love the cloud and try to keep all of my data in it. So when Google announced that they added PDF support a few weeks ago, I was listening. Last...
The recently launched Startup Warrior from former Georgia Tech classmate Andrew Cantino utilizes the Crunchbase API to help visitors visually browse startups and view startup hubs. Since the launch, Crunchbase has added similar mapping functionality...
Today I turn 22 years old. In the last year I have done a lot of things I'm happy about but I won't dwell on them here. I'm looking to the future and especially this...
Back in May I did a bit of traveling and became somewhat paranoid about the Internet connections I found at various hotels. I began using SSH tunnels to protect my web traffic when using Internet...
I just got back from the midnight showing of Disney/Pixar's latest flick, Wall•E. I'm here to recommend that you see it at your earliest convenience. I am no movie critic but I can easily tell...
It wasn't too long ago that I was taking a look at the first Eye-Fi card: a 2GB Wi-Fi-enabled SD card that uploads pictures to configured computers and photo-sharing websites. I concluded that the Eye-Fi...
At the beginning of this month I wrote about my satisfaction with my new ISP, DirecPath. For only 20 per month I get a fiber line that I thought had throughput in the area of...
When Firefox 3.0 was officially launched last Tuesday, I updated my copy of Firefox and installed a few select browser add-ons. This included my normal batch of add-ons like Firebug, YSlow, Delicious Bookmarks, and a...
Hot laptops are nothing new. Even with smaller processor fabrication, laptops keep getting smaller making it hard to effectively cool them without a large heatsink or loud fan. Case in point - my MacBook Air...
In the first part of this Going HD series I discussed the arrival of a 50-inch Samsung plasma HDTV as the core of my new HD setup. I've spent almost two weeks with the HDTV...
Go back to 1998 and remember when you had your shiny new Palm III PDA. It was the first of its kind to sport an infrared port. At the time, the killer feature of the...
If you have a MacBook Air or recent MacBook Pro with a multitouch trackpad, you have probably already fallen in love with the "swipe" gesture. Three fingers swiped across the trackpad to the left or...
I have found it - the ultimate computing chair/pillow contraption. It's called the Sumo Omni and it most closely resembles a big-arse pillow and glorified bean bag. I first heard about it from Derek Punsalan...
Many of you have been wondering when or if I was going to impart my thoughts about the recent Apple announcements. To get that out of the way, all I have to say is that...
This post suggestion has been sitting in my Skribit account for a while so I thought I would finally address it. S3 is Amazon's developer-aimed online storage solution. In recent years, consumer-friendly applications and tools...
I first heard about OpenID in 2005 and have kept hearing about it more and more since then. I never actually jumped on the bandwagon and started using it though - until now. I won't...
Last year I had my first run-in with Verizon's FiOS internet service. I had heard much about it and thought it was the best thing since sliced bread as it was the first application of...
Those of you following my Twitter account will know that my house was robbed early in the morning on Memorial day. Nothing of mine was actually taken but the three guys that broke in assaulted...
Last year I reviewed the Vudu set-top movies box and noted how it changed the way I watched movies. Instead of having any preconceived idea about what I wanted to watch, I would just plop...
Back when I wrote Startup 101: Tools for the Job, I had briefly mentioned Campfire by 37signals but had not gotten around to using it for Skribit. In the last month or two, things have...
Startup Riot 2008, painstakingly organized by Sanjay Parekh, went down yesterday and I must say this was the first big tech event in Atlanta that I have been to or heard about. There have been...
For the past few days, 17 universities throughout North America have been striving to come out on top in the final competition of a four year program. Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility is a...
By the time most people read this post I will have stayed in three different hotels in New York, New Jersey and Maryland while trekking along with Challenge X teams for their final competition. That...
I recently started using RescueTime after hearing about it countless times on Hacker News. Simply put, RescueTime is like Google Analytics for your time. It automatically tracks where you spend your time while computing and...
Similar to how I published photos of the companies I visited during my last trip to the valley, I have some new photos to share from my recent trip. During the week I was in...
Macbook Air owners know what I'm talking about - the dreaded core shutdown. When the MacBook Air gets too hot, there is a built-in thermal shutdown feature that turns off one of the two cores...
Summize, a company I am quite familiar with following my review of their review aggregator product, has substantially changed their company direction since I have last been in touch with them. They are now focusing...
I just wrapped up my final exams for this semester on Wednesday and will soon be boarding a flight to San Francisco for a week of vacation filled with visiting friends and exploring California again...
Final exams are around the corner and I can't help but think how useful Google Docs has been for me this year. They may not have implemented the print layout view (although it is surely...
As a pseudo-followup to my post about establishing an online identity, I want to talk about creating your in-real-life (IRL) brand. Meeting people at business networking mixers, tech events and conferences is a lot like...
One of the all-nighters I have pulled for school work in the last week has been for the last computer science course I need to take at Georgia Tech. It's called Design of Online Communities...
Building a community-driven site? You should consider implementing a points system. Why? I'll try to show you why in this post, but in a nutshell points systems are an ingenious way of taking something with...
Among the more popular posts on this blog are my DIY 200 PC posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). There are a few compromises with that route, such as it involves using a motherboard...
Last July I first laid my hands on the then-dubbed Dash GPS navigation beta unit while visiting friends in San Francisco. As I was with a friend that had just moved there and was not...
The cat's out of the bag and Flickr has officially launched their foray into the video world. I was fortunate enough to be a part of the "super secret" beta test along with ~260 users...
Amazon EC2 is among the more potent items in Amazon's web services arsenal. You've probably heard of many of the other services such as S3 for storage and FPS for payments. EC2 is all about...
As cliche and trite as I might sound saying this, music streaming services are hot right now. For the past week or so I haven't even used iTunes. I've just been listening to the Muxtape...
Startup Riot is entrepreneur and innovator Sanjay Parekh's latest attempt at jump-starting the startup culture and tech community in the Atlanta area. In essence it's a networking event focused around startup pitches to an audience...
That's the name of the award I will be honored with by Georgia Tech later this month. But now that my stay at college is winding down, what will I really do beyond the campus?...
WordPress 2.5 came out earlier today. I just updated and am going to give the gallery features a whirl with this test post. I have actually been tinkering a lot with customizing a gallery for...
While I'm not quite sure that's the most fitting title, I've recently been thinking about online anonymity in regards to web applications. In this time of social networks, social media, OpenSocial and what not, I...
I've had my MacBook Air for 15 days now. It has been serving as my primary computer and I have used it to do everything I usually do with my MacBook Pro. I'll cover how...
Viddyou, a video startup focused around vlogging, has been beta testing their premium services account over the last week. I've been in contact with Aaron Wadler, one of the guys behind Viddyou, ever since I...
Around the time that I started getting annoyed with AVCHD and my Panasonic HDC-SD5, Samsung and MWW approached me about testing out the Samsung SC-HMX10 camcorder. After finding out that the HMX10C didn't use AVCHD...
Today Apple announced an updated Airport Express base station supporting the 802.11n wireless standard (technically draft n, almost a standard) that every other Apple product to date currently supports. Like all Apple gadgetry it's sleek,...
I've always struggled with selling advertising on this site. I have tried some things here and there but most resulted in not enough revenue for the value they detracted from my site. Selling my own...
There aren't too many websites that irritate or annoy me other than the usuals; MySpace and the like. Unfortunately, I am adding a new site to that list today, Guy Kawasaki's latest venture called Alltop....
Before heading off to the Detroit Auto Show in January, I bought myself a Panasonic HDC-SD5. At the time it was the world's smallest 3CCD HD camcorder. I loved the form factor and that it...
Ah, the joy of an impulse buy with a high interest rate credit card. I wasn't really interested in the MacBook Air until I started reading about it more and more last week. Then I...
One of the main criticisms of the Nike+ iPod system is that it only works for running and similar activities. It won't accurately track workouts on a stair-master, elliptical trainer, stationary bike and other such...
After working on Skribit for the last 4 months, I have gotten a grip on my workflow and the tools I as well as the other co-founders use. The scope of this post is to...
Earlier this week Apple updated the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines. The update wasn't too crazy. Performance got a boost with 45nm Intel Penryn processors (decreased system temps being the main advantage) while the MacBook...
One of my secret passions in recent years has been learning about startups - how they run, what they need, how they reach their audience, the value-prop they offer and so on. Some people have...
Last September Yahoo! announced they had acquired Zimbra, a leader in email and collaboration software focused towards businesses, ISPs and universities. It was with that same announcement that Yahoo! said Georgia Tech would be one...
No I'm not talking about Apple's Time Capsule backup device, rather a new project from the folks at Photojojo called the Photo Time Capsule. Just set it up with your Flickr account and every month...
OpenDNS, the only DNS service I trust with my Internet experience, recently rolled out several notable features including from domain tagging (also known as "People-Powered Security") and an idea bank. The former lets OpenDNS users...
Today Mozilla, the company behind your favorite open source web browser and email client, has launched a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, focused entirely on email and Internet communications. Mozilla Messaging is the name and...
It has been almost a year that I have been shooting with a Nikon D80 DSLR camera. After taking many product review photos and dealing with uneven and blurry pictures, I finally came to my...
So you've built a nifty file server running Linux after following your favorite blogger's series of DIY 200 Dollar PC articles (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). Now what? Wouldn't it be nice if you...
It has been about two weeks since I first started writing about building your own, affordable PC that could easily be used as a file server or basic Linux/Windows computer. My first article in this...
John Ratcliffe-Lee writes in with a question about how to use Subversion to easily keep tabs on a frequently updated software CMS he wants to use. First off, what is Subversion? It's a widely used...
Since the beginning of 2007, PaulStamatiou.com has been hosted by Media Temple on their then newly launched (dv) dedicated-virtual 3.0 platform. Before that I was on the (dv) 2.0, so I'm quite familiar with their...
In the middle of reading something for my design of online communities class in my dimly lit room, my mind began to wander and I started counting all the LEDs in my room. Like most...
Last year around superbowl time, I posted an article showing how my roommate and I had built a stadium seating setup for our living room. This year, we went one step further and added a...
This very well might be one of those moments that defines tech news in 2008, especially if Yahoo! accepts Microsoft's 44.6 billion dollar offer. For the past few years Yahoo! has been suffering. In 2006,...
My recent article, DIY: 200 Dollar PC, proved to be quite popular with over 50k pageviews in the last few days. The Intel D201GLY2 motherboard that I linked to in the last article drove so...
I'm not one to downgrade too often but I am relieved to say that I ditched my 30-inch Dell LCD and went with the 24-inch 2407WFP-HC. You might be shaking your head in disapproval now...
Looking for a small and affordable computer to add to your collection of boxen? I'm not talking about the Everex gPC, OLPC or the Asus Eee PC. I'm talking about building your own mini-ITX form...
After reading a quick meme post on Kevin Lim's blog, I thought I would take a break from coding to join in on the fun and briefly show you what I take to classes everyday....
As I mentioned in my Detroit Auto Show 2008 post earlier in the week, the overarching theme of this year's North American International Auto Show was without a doubt going green. Traditionally gas-unfriendly domestic auto...
Several weeks ago I was approached by my friend Dustin Diaz, Google UI engineer extraordinaire, about a new book he co-authored that was recently published. I said I would take a look and post something...
I had the misfortune of having a flight back to Atlanta during the same time the MacWorld 2008 keynote was set to take place. As soon as I landed I turned off airplane mode on...
I have been in chilly Detroit since Saturday afternoon as a guest of GM's to attend the 2008 North American International Auto Show, better known as just the Detroit Auto Show. With cars increasingly becoming...
As a product review connoisseur myself, I immediately became interested in Summize when it first took wind. Summize is a trend-tracking, review-aggregating, verdict-visualizing product review portal of sorts, with the focus being on their unique...
Over 300 people have suggested via Skribit that I chime in on what's involved with maintaining, writing and developing for this blog. With this post I aim to cover every aspect of how I work...
The past few days have proved to be noteworthy for those following the Blu-ray and HD DVD format war. On Friday, Warner Bros Entertainment announced that it would release its high-definition titles exclusively on Blu-ray...
I'm no stranger to Sling Media's Slingbox offerings and when I reviewed their HD-device-friendly Slingbox Solo in October I was a bit disappointed with the video quality. The main reason for that being I was...
It's January 2008 and the annual MacWorld Expo is less than 2 weeks away. Naturally, the internet is a flurry of rumors and predictions for what will be happening at MacWorld. As a sidenote, I...
RSS is great for when you're at your computer or actively reading feeds on your mobile device but it's not as pervasive and intrusive as SMS text messages. That may seem great, I mean who...
Depending on where you reside, 2008 will be arriving shortly or is just a countdown away. This blog more than doubled in subscribers in 2007 so I want to take this time and do another...
The future high-definition data format has not been set in stone yet. There is a format war going on between the Blu-ray format and the HD DVD format for which will become the true successor...
2007 was a great year for myself and this blog. I started a company with some great people and gained some business sense from dealing with the inner workings of a startup directly. PaulStamatiou.com received...
Here I am, the night before Christmas, thinking about what I'm going to do with the high-definition camcorder I bought myself. Naturally, I am going to use it to share some HD video on this...
I got an email from Nike's ad agency back in November. After many more emails, quite a few calls, a demo video, film scouting and then a day of shooting, I became the star of...
BarCamps, Startup Weekends, Coworking, Panera, Starbucks, Ritual Roasters - all places typically flooded with Wi-Fi and laptop-toting patrons. Over the last five years, the increasing prevalence of wireless networking and the advancement of smaller and...
Holidays have rolled around again and I've spotted a few things here and there that I'd like to recommend. All of them are somehow related to tech - you won't find me recommending any argyle...
Sony recently targeted the young YouTube/video-blogger crowd with their 149 (sans memory stick) GC1 Net-Sharing Cam. The GC1 does double-duty as a 5MP camera with flash and a video camcorder capable of capturing 640x480 30fps...
It's that time of year again. I will be locked away in my room studying for several finals and completing various class projects as this semester comes to an end. Naturally, it will be a...
Don't you hate it when you get lost in Alaskan outback at night, miles away from civilization, with nary a flame to guide you? I know, it sucks right? Well not for long. The next...
By default, recent Macs ship with their hibernate mode set such that when your Mac goes to sleep, contents of the RAM remain stored in the powered-on RAM in addition to written to the hard...
Hot on the heels of my review of Wicked Lasers' Elite Series 150+ green laser comes the AE Xenide flashlight. The Xenide utilizes a High Intensity Discharge system similar to the HID/Xenon headlights found in...
Does your ISP give you a dynamic IP (most do)? Have you ever tried setting up a server from that Internet connection, setting up your Slingbox for Internet viewing or setting up a slew of...
When family, friends and acquaintances find out I am a computer enthusiast, they usually assume that I am also a big gamer. The opposite is true as I have haven't played any games of my...
155mW. 532nm. 699. Green. All of those can be used to describe the newest addition to Wicked Lasers' product lineup, the Elite Series. As you might imagine, Wicked Lasers specializes in powerful and expensive exotic...
Based on this Google Experimental Search page, it seems as though Google is testing out a prospective feature for search results - voting. The SERPs show an "up" icon and an "X" icon. If a...
I'm staying with a cousin in New York for a few days and have been able to experience Verizon's FiOS internet service for the first time. FiOS is the first commercial offering of FTTH (Fiber...
Update 12-18-2009: Check out the official Skribit launch details here and on TechCrunch.
I've been at the airport and on a flight home for the most of the day and missed most of the Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta buzz. Now that I've had a chance to glance over...
I've been using Mac OS X Leopard for a few weeks now and have started to form my thoughts about it. For the first few days, I really didn't think Leopard was all that different...
Two weeks ago I mentioned I was writing a term paper on privacy issues that exist with the growing use of Radio Frequency Identification systems and tags. I ended up receiving an A on the...
Peter Rojas, the guy that co-founded Engadget, launched his latest venture today. RCRD LBL, which translates to Record Label in non-Web 2.0 vernacular, is a blog meets social network for music lovers. Well, it doesn't...
Over the past decade computers have become progressively faster and faster at an astonishing rate. However, one main bottleneck always remained - the hard drive. While hard drive technology advancements such as perpendicular magnetic recording...
Over the summer I invested in a 30-inch Dell LCD to complement my primary and only computer, my MacBook Pro, with money from having sold a little web app. While I wasn't a true early...
Since 6pm Friday I have been involved with Startup Weekend Atlanta. I've written about it quite enthusiastically in the past and it has been an greater experience than I could have ever imagined. In a...
It's not often that an SD memory card comes out and creates a ton of fanfare. When that SD card has integrated Wi-Fi abilities to immediately upload your photos, then you start to understand why...
Carnegie Mellon University's autonomous SUV named Boss successfully completed the 60 mile DARPA Urban Challenge over the weekend, winning 2 million for the university. Stanford came in second and Virginia Tech third. Unfortunately, Georgia Tech's...
Just a 411 - this weekend, the upcoming week and next weekend will be rather hectic for me as I write my term paper on RFID tag privacy, prepare a presentation on it, code a...
Remember when Apple first unleashed the MacBook Pros, the first Intel Macs, back in January of 2006? I do, and the one feature of the new MBPs that made me go "aww, that's cool" had...
From the not-sure-how-useful-this-is department comes a simple method of changing the default desktop wallpaper shown when logging into OS X Leopard if space and stars aren't your cup o' tea. All you need to do...
Disqus, the 2-person, YCombinator-funded, San Francisco-based startup I've written about before, has just opened up it doors to everyone. Disqus adds spice to blog comments with innovative comment display techniques including threading and comment rating...
Just tonight Erica Sadun, a well-known iPhone tinkerer and TUAW blogger, announced the launch of jailbreakme.com. The site enables its iPhone/iPod Touch visitors to "jailbreak" their units in mere minutes, with a single touch. Jailbreaking...
While I was content with my BlackBerry Curve mainly for my ability to type rapidly on the keypad, recent events including the ability to easily change ringtones through iTunes and Google providing free IMAP access...
If you're anything like me, for the past few days you've been checking the settings page of your Gmail/Google Apps Gmail account hoping to see an IMAP settings page. Google is slowly rolling out free...
Prediction: Hard drive manufacturers will love Apple for boosting external hard drive sales. Apple's upcoming operating system, OS X Leopard, contains a powerful system backup tool that makes use of an external hard drive rather...
Sling Media, a company known for set-top boxes that stream video, recently unleashed a third Slingbox into their lineup, the Slingbox Solo. It is priced above the Slingbox AV I reviewed over the summer and...
The latest web craze seems to be centered around FriendFeed's service that, well, lets you view your friends' feeds from other social services and share your own. It seems a little abstract but if you're...
By now you've no doubt heard that the latest Mac OS X version dubbed 10.5 Leopard will be dropping on Friday, October 26th at 6pm. Usually I don't need convincing when new software comes out,...
Michael Wesch, a professor at Kansas State University well-known for his digital ethnography studies, has put together an excellent video delving into technology and the state of education today. Prof Wesch is known for these...
Today is Blog Action Day where thousands of blogs and companies have united to increase awareness about the environment. Now would be a great time to share a few energy saving tips I attempt to...
People have been saying that DRM is going to die for a long time. Steve Jobs went out on a limb last February and urged record companies to cease using the crippling technology. It's been...
Tired of using sketchy sites to find mediocre ringtones to replace the default one on your new phone? ToneMine attempts to solve this problem by building a community around people who create and share their...
I hate to solicit things on this blog but I've been selected as a top 20 finalist for the 10k blogging scholarship I wrote about a while ago. If you've got the time to spare,...
For one of the first times in my college education, I have the option of writing a term paper on a topic that actually interests me. It's for a required computer science course about computing,...
While many illegal music downloaders and file-sharers have been pursued by the RIAA, most have settled outside of court. This past week, the RIAA dealt with the first real trial where someone fought back and...
I recently discovered RefactorMyCode, a developer-oriented site aimed at letting others critique, or refactor, your code snippets. Up until now, it seemed that the only communities based around helping others with their code were mundane...
Ever since I first wrote about Vudu, a Santa Clara, CA based hardware company that had been in stealth mode for 2 years, I have been wanting to get my hands on their innovative set-top...
While I have seen a few mentions of Amazon S3 supporting BitTorrent tracking and file-sharing, I don't think it has been a well publicized feature. PSTAM reader Carlton Bale wrote a great guide for getting...
Over the last two weeks I have been spending a lot of time thinking about the future of PaulStamatiou.com. It has been around for over 2 years, served up over 4 million pages (1 million...
I have been trying to ignore the Halo 3 coverage everywhere online as I don't have an Xbox 360 and the hype has started to make me want one (even though my bank account is...
First it was video with Amazon Unbox, now the online retailer giant is venturing into digital music sales with Amazon MP3. Here's the real kicker - all songs are DRM-free, encoded at 256 kilobits per...
Media Temple hosting recently launched a beta test of a new GridContainer for their (gs) hosting service that supports Python and the Django framework right out of the box. Django is an increasingly popular framework...
After asking around for headphone suggestions and receiving some great responses, I decided to go with the Sony MDR-EX71SL earbuds. As I didn't want to order anything online and wait too long, I went with...
A few months ago I wrote an article about ideas, ones that can grow into big things. I received overwhelming response from readers in the same boat as me - tons of ideas and no...
As I've been into the whole Nike+ thing recently, I have been trying to hunt down a great set of headphones that stay put. The standard Apple iPod earbuds are worthless when it comes to...
With the release of the highly-anticipated Google Presentations (click New » Presentation), Google is one step closer to becoming a complete online office productivity suite and stealing many of Zoho's users. Similar to Google Docs,...
For months I have been sworn to secrecy being an early user of Mint, a cutting-edge money management web application aimed at helping college students and the like get a hold on their finances. Now...
When spending hours in front of the computer, it's important to incorporate some physical activity into your daily routine. Unfortunately, physical activity usually brings up ideas of slaving over a treadmill and doing something you're...
Dash is the name and revolutionary automotive navigation is the game. Dash has been developing an Internet-connected GPS device that taps into services like Yahoo! Local Search, provides you with ridiculously accurate traffic reports by...
Every site boasting social features has, no doubt, some kind of custom user-to-user messaging system. Each one works differently but they all require that you be logged in to read the message. Don't worry about...
Jottit is a basic web application developed by Aaron Swartz that lets you create your own web page. Yup, that's pretty much it. There's nothing revolutionary about Jottit but I love the user experience. The...
Shortly after I publish this post, Microsoft will kickstart a campaign called The Ultimate Steal where Office Ultimate 2007 will be sold to students for a ridiculous 59 (retail is closer to 600). This is...
Ever since Facebook applications came along...
There are only a few ideas that really pop out at me and make my jaw drop. When Allison Rhodes of OpenDNS asked me what I thought were some of the best recent innovations at...
The Daniel Kovach Scholarship Foundation is gearing up to give away another impressive blogging scholarship for eligible college students (U.S. citizen, quality blog, full-time post-secondary education student). This time the check is for a whopping...
[Update: Admish is now in public beta.] Created by several undergrad students aiming to help out prospective college students, Admish is a yet-to-be-launched community for "college admissions that connects parents, students, guidance counselors and admissions...
No that's not a cheesy allusion to an altered saying in the V for Vendetta movie, alright well maybe it is, but today will be the day that Apple releases its first touch-screen iPod. That...
I came across an interesting note on 9rules asking people how much time they spent online each day. I've already asked you what you use as your homepage, now I'm going to ask how much...
Around the time that Facebook unveiled their iPhone mobile site, Josh Lowensohn at WebWare praised the iPhone-optimized version of Facebook for doubling as a massive phonebook on the go. He was absolutely correct. You have...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Earlier in the year I introduced you to Intype, a Windows text editor that looked promising despite being in the alpha stage of development. Six months later Intype is still in alpha and not exactly...
Daniel Kovach, the guy responsible for The Daniel Kovach Scholarship Foundation from which I received a 1k blogging scholarship last year, is running a web design scholarship contest. If you're a college student and can...
Just as the rumors expected, Apple updated the iMac line with a substantial design refresh - aluminum & glass body, black accents and a slimmer physique. While I appreciate the move from using plastic for...
VMware, the creator of native x86 virtualization in the late '90s, has released their first consumer-directed product for Mac users. VMware Fusion allows OS X users to run virtual machines with support for over 60...
Fuzzwich is the product of Habit Industries, an early-stage startup backed by Paul Graham's YCombinator that aims to develop "tools supporting the creation and distribution of animated videos". Fuzzwich Mini-vids are small and fun animated...
Amazon has been highly-regarded in the developer circles over the past year with solutions that take advantage of Amazon's scale and pass the savings down to the developer. S3 and EC2 (like S3 but for...
The Microsoft Office for Mac Team recently announced that their Office suite of productivity apps will be released to manufacturers in December, so you can safely see it in retail locations/online around Macworld time. In...
I was browsing through Jonathan Snook's blog earlier this morning when I noticed something at the bottom of his posts; a link for users to bookmark his posts on del.icio.us with a count of saves....
One year ago today I was up very early in the morning in Sunnyvale, CA helping launch Yahoo!'s now 1 year old corporate blog, Yodel Anecdotal. Yodel Anecdotal is praised for being a real blog...
This weekend swarms of hackers, Linux gurus, network enthusiasts, exploit mavens, and just plain ol' geeks will be congregating in Las Vegas for Defcon 15. Several of my friends will be going but unfortunately I...
I normally try to avoid server/unix jargon on this blog but as you can tell I have become infatuated with Amazon's affordable storage solution, S3, as of late. We all know that it is important...
AT&T recently launched a service called Video Share that fully takes advantage of their 3G network. As the name implies, you can actually send live video from one Video Share enabled AT&T phone to another....
Up until now there had been only a few tools to help web developers assess the speed and optimization status of their websites. Primarily, there is the Net tool of the ever-popular Firebug add-on for...
With my last few posts on website optimization, one of the larger areas of focus was reducing HTTP requests. By reducing the number of requests your browser must make to retrieve all of your website,...
Put this into perspective: it's 9pm on a Friday night and you're out in San Francisco at a bar when you get a text message, your friend tells you your server is down for whatever...
As an update to my flickrSLiDR slideshow tool post, I'd like to announce that I have sold flickrSLiDR. It is now owned by a guy in Sweden who bought it from me for a cool...
I've been so busy during my stay here in San Francisco that I haven't had the time to post much - less even go online, other than to upload pictures to Flickr. I've been leaving...
When it comes to high-performance, speed and optimization, I'm there. I have written several articles about this subject in the past with 5 Ways to Speed Up Your Site, How To: Optimize Your CSS Even...
AMD's innovative 50x15 program is determined to accelerate the adoption of the Internet to 50% of the world's population by the year 2015. The program has been around since 2004 and has already helped countries...
Just an FYI to everyone that reads, subscribes and checks this site incessantly, I recently entered the ranks of the Top 100 blogs as tracked by Technorati, out of 70M+ blogs. Technorati takes into account...
This past week Fortune magazine held an invite-only tech conference called iMeme, where business executives met to discuss current issues regarding how technology is vital to the future of their company's growth. Prior to the...
Recently the social web browser company Flock rolled out a milestone release, version 0.9. While it's not a 1.0, the new release totes some awe-inspiring new features that put it on a different level than...
Belkin has been good at creating hype for their wireless "cable-free" USB hubs utilizing Ultra-wideband. As you might remember from my review in February, Belkin sent me their 199 4-port wireless USB hub to review....
Chances are that if you use Gmail or Gmail for your domain, you are also a devout user of Google Notifier to let you know when your inbox needs your attention. Also, chances are that...
If you have read this site for more than a day, you will know that many of my articles contain screenshots of various applications and websites. For the past two years I have been relying...
Alex Faaborg from Mozilla has written an insightful, usability-centric article on the Mozilla Labs blog. He talks about something you are probably already familiar with even if you don't use the GKUI acronym - Graphical...
In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, SysAdmin Day on July 27th of course, OpenDNS is holding a contest. The first of four challenges ends later today and they're looking for a funny SysAdmin story....
With computers evolving from purely productivity machines to multimedia powerhouses, people have begun using their computers to do everything. One way to use your computer to watch TV is to install a local TV tuner...
From the that-is-pretty-damn-interesting department comes an article explaining how TiVo CEO Tom Rogers flies back and forth from California and New York every week. Rogers' family lives in New York and his job resides in...
I logged into my Google Docs account this evening to organize some school documents when I noticed that the Docs Home was revamped. The new structure, which I rather enjoy, makes it easy to view...
There are several milestones for kids growing up in the US. There's the 16th birthday which is when you can get your driver's license, the 17th birthday when you can view R rated movies, the...
As of recently I have been more and more interested in reading about branding, image and recognition - things to better promote my site. My logo work and subtle redesign were part of that effort...
Last week I wrote about my first impressions of the new Santa Rosa Apple MacBook Pro, which I purchased after selling my 24-inch iMac. Since the MacBook Pro is now my main machine I had...
I had always known that high-tech countries like Japan indulged in amazing Internet connection speeds but a recent article in USA Today was a real eye-opener. Take this tidbit for example, the current median download...
I am not going to lie, Firefox for OS X is horrible reliability-wise. It crashes all the time, uses exorbitant amounts of physical and virtual RAM, sometimes won't let you use the address bar... you...
As I mentioned in my post last Sunday, GM flew me out to Pittsburgh, PA last weekend to check out Carnegie Mellon's autonomous SUV compete in a DARPA site visit. The event determined whether CMU's...
In response to news that Apple will be revamping the iMac lineup in the next few months, I sold my 24-inch iMac to take advantage of its current higher resale value. Today I purchased a...
As you many of you may know, the (overly-hyped) Apple iPhone is set to debut on June 29th. While there is no true SDK for developing third-party applications for the iPhone, applications can be created...
Opera Mini, the popular mobile browser saving users from the generally horrid proprietary browsers included on most phones, has hit version 4 and the beta is touting some great features. Most notably, the new zoom...
In preparation for DARPA's 2007 Urban Challenge competition in November, Carnegie Mellon University will be holding an event with their autonomous SUV tomorrow. The DARPA Urban Challenge involves several universities and many companies helping to...
Last month I wrote a comprehensive review of the Sonos Digital Music System. While the Sonos is an excellent piece of equipment, it is aimed at the high-end audio audience looking to control multiple rooms...
Anyone working in the tech industry or simply involved with technology is likely to spend more hours in front of a computer than is healthy for them. This is where the importance of a quality...
BlackBerry's latest smartphone offering, the sleek Curve, fits right in between the Pearl and the QWERTY keyboard sporting 8800. The Curve is aimed at a slightly different demographic than your traditional BlackBerry user, a business...
As expected, MacRumors Live is keeping Apple fans and enthusiasts up-to-date with all of the WWDC news (Engadget also has great live coverage). WWDC is an annual developer's conference held by Apple in San Francisco...
When I was younger (and still now), I always thought the future would completely embrace wireless technology for everything, including electricity. In an extreme idea of that, there would be no power lines - only...
For the past month, I have been working closely with designer Mike Rohde on developing some personal branding - essentially a logo for this site, my business cards, etcetera. The logo has been completed and...
A while ago, a new tutorial-based Mac website called MacInstruct ran a contest asking for people to send in their best Mac tutorials. The contest has since closed and you can now view all 38...
Apple updated the 15 and 17-inch MacBook Pros this morning. Changes were limited to mostly speed changes with a switch to the Intel Santa Rosa Core 2 Duo chip, offering speeds up to 2.4GHz. The...
As you have all probably heard by now, the Apple iPhone will be at Cingular/AT&T stores near you on June 29th (which happens to be my name day, it's a European thing). If you haven't...
Every week I receive more than a handful of emails from people asking me what I use to display my Twitter status on this blog, as well as how I do the "popular this month"...
Agnitum's latest PC security software, Outpost Security Suite Pro, combines the firewall protection of Outpost Firewall Pro with an "anti-spam engine" and "application behavior analysis" for preemptive protection against online threats. Sounds like a lot...
After hearing about the joys of Lighttpd, a lightweight alternative to the Apache web server, for a long time I opened a Connector account with Joyent/TextDrive. I planned on using this account as a development...
WordCamp, the annual meetup of WordPress users, enthusiasts and developers, will be taking place July 21-22 in San Francisco, California. I'll be in attendance for at least one of the days (one day is designated...
Bandwagon, the little OS X application that backs up your iTunes media online, will be relaunching this evening as a DIY version. Just give it your Amazon S3 account info and you're good to go....
Microsoft is the first major player to announce a surface computing computer. The device is dubbed simply Microsoft Surface and is comprised of a 30-inch acrylic tabletop powered by a special Vista computer, 5 cameras...
Georgia Tech was in the news today, along with other universities, regarding the national decline of students who pick computer science as their major. Georgia Tech was given 1 million by Microsoft to jump-start a...
My friend Dimitry has a post detailing the newest Google Maps feature - Street View. As the name implies, you can see an area at the street level as opposed to up above with traditional...
In lieu of a better post on this Memorial Day, I'll be discussing the current state of the web, where all you need is an idea to be set for life. Nothing has changed with...
Matt Mullenweg et al just released a (beta) WordPress embedded video player for WordPress.com users with the paid space upgrade. It utilizes VidaVee and looks relatively better than most embedded flash players out there. All...
At 0.7-inches thin and 2.25 pounds light with an out of this world battery life of up to 14 hours, a prototype laptop backed by Intel dubbed the "Intel mobile Metro notebook" could change the...
More high-end phones, particularly smartphones, are coming with built-in GPS capabilities that coalesce with powerful applications to provide unparalleled utility. Case in point, the Google blog mentioned today that the GPS-enabled Cingular/AT&T BlackBerry 8800 supports...
In addition to Google unveiling Hot Trends, an expansion of the Trends service which displays popular search terms for each day, Google will be upping the GMail file attachment limit. Currently, GMail users are limited...
Those of you that are familiar with G4TechTV and the show Call for Help have no doubt heard of Amber MacArthur. You'd be hard pressed to find something online that Amber hasn't been involved with....
With a retail price of only 99, Sprint's new Samsung M620 UpStage phone offers incredible value with some highly touted abilities. In this review, I'll let you know whether the UpStage mobile phone is worth...
Back in 2005 I wrote an article detailing how to embed flickr slideshows within your blog or website. Since then, that post has received over 200 comments, a crazy amount of links and numerous mentions...
Today, uberblog Engadget posted a story regarding Apple delaying the iPhone and Leopard, which turned out to be a false alarm. However, during the period that Engadget claimed the delays as fact, Apple's stock plummeted...
Everyone's talking about Amazon's latest press release announcement and I'm no exception. Later this year, Amazon will launch a digital music store "offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000...
Last December there was a bit of ruckus regarding Office for Mac's inability to work with Office 2007's new XML-based document formats. While the promised Office for Mac-integrated converters have yet to arrive (6-8 more...
For as long as I can remember I have been using simple point-and-shoot digital cameras. They didn't have the greatest picture quality or zoom capabilities and were generally slow when taking consecutive pictures/charging up the...
San Jose Mercury News recently launched a new weekly podcast called Inside Silicon Valley. Their first podcast caught my attention with an interview of Bradley Horowitz about Yahoo's idea incubator, Brickhouse, in San Francisco.
I'm not one to talk much about speculation and things yet to be released but AppleInsider has some compelling information regarding the ultra-portable MacBook we have all been hearing about. It won't feature a 12.1-inch...
Today I'll be taking a look at a service called XHTML Slicer that takes the hard work out of web development by doing all the coding for you. XHTML Slicer is ideal for busy web...
Nothing gets me more giddy than learning about new Internet technologies that may wind up in my household one day and today's AP article about Comcast's demo of DOCSIS 3.0 is no exception. Currently, cable...
Similar to Best Buy's ill-fated Geek Squad (just search for Geek Squad on digg and you'll see what I mean), Circuit City has Firedog, although Firedog won't charge you 415 to replace a hard drive....
For the past month I have been rigorously enjoying testing Sonos' high-end digital music system. Today I hope to share with you my experience with the system and help you determine whether it is worth...
Looking for a streamlined and simple way to monitor traffic on your WordPress blog? Look no further - WordPress has released their stats tool that is used on WordPress.com, as a plugin. That means you...
Search forms on most sites lack any styling at all, leaving for the browser's default appearance which can be ugly at times. By simply adding a border to the form in CSS you can easily...
Spring semester 2007 has finally come to an end. After two weeks of completing final projects and studying for my computer science final, I'm glad to say that it's finished and I can finally get...
As I've hinted elsewhere, it is indeed dreaded finals week at Georgia Tech but rather than leave you high and dry while I am consumed by computer science PowerPoints, I'll point you to what I've...
It's May 1st meaning you will be seeing many redesigned sites today thanks to CSS Reboot, which I participated in last year. I would have liked to reboot this year but school has been overwhelming...
If you have ever searched for that new song you can't get enough of on Google, you'll have noticed that often times imeem, a social music community, will be among the first results. You can...
The NY Times has an in-depth article detailing an until now secretive 41-person startup in California with big plans. Vudu Inc will go head-to-head with other set-top boxes, such as the Apple TV, with their...
For the past 2 months, I have been visiting a new social bookmarking site called Startup News, a product of Paul Graham's Y Combinator. Startup News is exemplary proof that small-scale, niche social bookmarking sites...
Every year, TIME magazine creates a list that showcases the most influential people who shape our world. Only 100 people can make the cut and TIME recently unveiled a list of 200 people from which...
Earlier this week while working on a group project with a server we all shared, a relatively large CSS file was accidentally overwritten. We had been coding non-stop for a few days and hadn't backed...
As I mentioned a few days ago, the best way to get your name out there is by having an online presence and setting up a website for yourself. So you've bought a domain for...
Dear Google Docs & Spreadsheets Team,
The blog MacApper has posted an "exclusive" review of an OS X application by Panic Inc. called Coda that is purported to be released Monday. I do think that something will be released, especially since...
OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch just let me know about a new OpenDNS feature launching tomorrow simply called shortcuts. Similar to how your browser has bookmarks, OpenDNS shortcuts let you pair a word with a URL...
Spam is a daily hassle for anyone that relies on sifting through their inbox to keep track of things. I know that when I was at Yahoo, my inbox received probably a hundred emails a...
Glenn Wolsey published an interesting interview with the owner of the largest iTunes music collection. The owner of that collection, Will Friedwald, maintains a massive archive of 849 GB of music equating to 172,150 tracks....
Thunderbird version 2.0 has been released today. As MacWorld reports, Thunderbird 2 adds message tagging, improved searching, as well as enhanced spam and phishing protection.
Netvibes, the extremely popular web service that allows users to have customizable news aggregation startpages, announced a new service at their Web 2.0 Expo afterparty in San Francisco. Netvibes Universe is the name of this...
One of the most common things web coders run into is the need to parse some type of XML file. Many web services return API calls in XML format, so it's just handy to know...
Late last night I got rather bored and decided to investigate Netflix and their "Watch Now" feature that was announced in January. Netflix says they are slowly rolling this service out until June 2007 when...
Every year the SANS Institute compiles a list of the top 20 Internet security attack targets and details vulnerabilities that certain pieces of software should be patched for. But how do you know if your...
Entrepreneur magazine Inc recently published an article entitled "Start a Blog, Get Discovered" that explores the great benefits of having an online presence. The article followed a financial analyst who had a casual blog on...
Samsung is among the first of several manufacturers working on getting LED backlit LCD displays to consumers. They have announced a new 24-inch display sporting some impressive features. Current LCD displays rely on bulky, power...
I've been informed by Thomas Ford at Opera that we will see the next version of the popular commercial browser released tomorrow. Opera 9.2 brings in an innovative new feature called Speed Dial. Speed Dial...
Sonos, a company that creates high-end audio systems, sent me a Sonos Digital Music System to test drive over the next month. I can already tell you what I think of this system, but I...
This past week I finally got fed up with Firefox's continual memory leaks and sluggish behavior. I had enjoyed the unparalleled expansion capabilities that Firefox held, but it's not stable enough for me. My computer...
All interesting stories, at least on my campus, start out "So I was Googling myself..", and this news snippet is no exception. So I was Googling myself today and noticed that I am now the...
After some legal troubles with AOL, the ever popular open source instant messenger (formerly) known as Gaim will now be called Pidgin. This is rather unfortunate news; the name Pidgin just isn't the same. Gaim...
Aside from EMI announcing DRM-free music on the iTunes store, there have been other tech news pieces making waves this week. Most recently, Google updated their Maps offering to include something called MyMaps. MyMaps allows...
Those avoiding hacking their Apple TV to add functionality don't have much of an excuse as of today. Apparently, you can hack the little media device without even opening it. While technically that means your...
This week we pick up where I left off about two weeks ago regarding my MacBook lemon situation. I took it to the Apple store in Houston (during my spring break) where they claimed they...
April 2nd 2007. Remember that date as the day DRM died, well at least started to die. It appears as though Steve Jobs' call to abolish DRM was heard by someone at EMI, who will...
Skilled Apple TV tinkerers have been able to get Mac OS X, in its full and uninhibited form, running on an Apple TV. I think this is essentially the tipping point for Apple TV sales...
Reader Shawn Blanc pointed me to a great post of his covering ecto, a popular desktop blog publishing client for OS X. Shawn goes step by step through using ecto and explains the features. Personally,...
Pete Cashmore seems to believe that the current changes YouTube is undergoing tonight will be much more than just the maintanence they claim. The potential changes would include a new way to organize videos and...
Disclosure: This is another one of those paid-reviews-trying-to-pay-off-tuition things.
By popular demand, Apple has introduced a new and extremely useful feature called Complete My Album into iTS. Frequent iTunes Store buyers will have no doubt found themselves in the predicament when they've bought a...
Over the next few months, Yahoo! Mail users will begin having unlimited storage at their disposal. From the news pieces I've come across, the attachment size limit of 10MB (20MB for Y! Mail Plus subscribers)...
I put my old school Firewire iSight to good use by recording a time lapse video of downtown Atlanta, as seen from my bedroom window. I started recording at 3am last night and stopped it...
On the flight back to Atlanta today I was without my laptop, which is at Apple's repair depot for who knows how long, and started to think of things geeks tend to do when they...
Well that didn't take long at all. Someone on the something awful forums was able to get his Apple TV to play videos in various encoding formats by adding codec support with Perian (a codec...
Mac users are well aware of MacUpdate, the definitive resource for discovering new software titles and version updates garnering the attention of more than 3 million people each month. However, there hasn't been much coverage...
Google silently added themes to personalized homepages today. Not including the basic Google theme, there are 6 themes you can try out. Interestingly enough, they are dynamic and change according to "your local weather conditions."...
After a near month-long delay, Apple has begun shipping their Apple TV units which provide a long-needed connection between the media on your computer and your high-definition TV. Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal...
I love flickr and I've always yearned for a unique and interesting way of displaying my recent flickr photos on my site. Yeah, I could always just grab the standard flickr badge and style it...
Tomorrow night I'll be attending a Refresh Houston meeting down here in Texas. There will be a special appearance by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg as well. If you happen to be in the area, please...
Over the summer I wrote a post called 5 Ways to Speed Up Your Site that went through some basic tips for getting your site to load faster. I mentioned enabling gzip compression in WordPress...
Derek has posted an excellent comparison of three popular online project management and collaboration services. The most interesting of which, to me at least, was Webreakstuff's new Goplan. I just moved over the random ideas...
Georgia Tech's Spring Break kicks off today and I'll be flying home to Houston in a few hours. I'm most definitely ready for it to begin after this project-filled week. I was at the College...
Disclosure: I was paid 231 for this post and it's something I would have never covered on my own. I only accepted this review due to the ~100k worth of student loans in my name....
Just a reminder for all WordPress bloggers - check your Akismet spam in the admin panel from time to time. I just bailed out 9 legit comments. And to think how many comments have wrongfully...
Notice: Anti-Apple rant contained within.
Apple has released OS X 10.4.9 today, so run your software update now. On my Macbook the update runs 99.4 megabytes. As you might expect, 10.4.9 is the last major update to Tiger until Leopard's...
Last week at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, my fellow Computational Media major friend John Swisshelm won a game design competition. For that, he was awarded one of the 100 laptops created as...
I just noticed that flickr added a minor tweak just now. You can change the layout of your photos page. There are some small design changes as well but the Flickr logo still bears the...
Having trouble keeping track of the 37 social media services you use daily? Having an even harder time recalling your profile URL for those 12 social networks you use when a friend asks for it?...
When it comes to turning your Mac into a multimedia machine with a TV tuner, there isn't much of a choice except for products by Elgato. I'll be taking a look at Elgato's EyeTV Hybrid,...
Back in July I "realigned" this site's design after having gotten bored with the old design. I began thinking this realigned design lacked some branding and could be tweaked up quickly. I ended up taking...
I'm not one for politics... I'm actually rather apathetic about most political issues. One thing, however, that instantly caught my attention was how John Edwards is absolutely rocking it when it comes to making a...
Wired has an article discussing software that Adobe is developing that will be able to detect "improper manipulation of images". The software will debut in the form of photo-authentication plug-ins for Photoshop in 2008. The...
Josh Pigford, the creator of The Apple Blog, has posted an extremely well-written rant of sorts regarding the major flaw with Alexa website traffic statistics. Alexa is a serviced owned by Amazon that provides website...
Remember that hip new social network I gave out invites for a few weeks ago? Well, it launched and went public today. Virb is geared more towards the arts-oriented crowd (music, etc), or so it...
Okay, I'll admit that the idea of a socially-driven site built around sharing documents doesn't sound terribly enticing, but I have fallen in love with Scribd. Scribd has a great design and a surprisingly simple...
A common problem with mobile computing is the inability to find a comfortable and safe computing position without using some sort of TV dinner-type stand or pillow. It's no secret that my Core Duo MacBook...
An upcoming web application called MyMint aims to help you save money by analyzing your spending habits. While I can't say too much about MyMint at the moment, I do know that it is a...
Ben Guild, the 19 year old mastermind behind Mobile17, has just launched a news site dubbed Whitesoap. Interestingly enough, Whitesoap kind of goes against the whole Web 2.0 mantra in that it's not a social...
Lots of great news in the Apple software realm today. Apple released iTunes 7.1 which includes the notable feature addition of full-screen Cover Flow and support for Apple TV. The iTunes update comes bundled with...
Deligio is a new web service vying to be an alternative for Download.com. Created by an Amsterdam-based startup, deligio is a comprehensive software bookmarking site and search engine. Upon first visit, you'll see a simple...
As you probably already know, I am an avid Ars Technica reader. They always lead the pack in top-notch reviews, well-known for reviewing the latest Apple products, as well as report on news first. Ars...
If you were an early adopter and upgraded your WordPress installation to version 2.1.1 you might be running with a severe vulnerability. A cracker got access to one of the servers and edited the code...
To start off March with a bang, the RIAA sent out 400 letters to 13 different universities regarding potential copyright infringement cases, according to Information Week. In their typical ways, the RIAA expects to settle...
The Pragmatic Programmers, an excellent publishing house for technical books and resources, has started shipping TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac. TextMate is, hands-down, the best editor for the Mac - if not for any...
Google has added traffic status information to select cities on Google Maps. This is the first substantial Google Maps update in quite some time and it seems as though Google is playing a bit of...
Parallels Desktop, the top-notch OS X application that lets users run virtualized operating systems, has reached a final non-beta version. Current Parallels users that have already purchased Desktop won't have to pay for the update...
Roughly two weeks ago, I began asking for recommendations for a VESA-compatible iMac arm. Then, I had ghetto modded the Apple VESA adapter to my iMac since the VESA arm had not yet arrived. I...
For those of you that decided, like me, a long nap was a better way to spend 6 hours rather than watching the Oscars, you've missed out on the first Apple iPhone commercial. Fortunately, Dan...
Big shout out to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who turns 52 years old today. I have a feeling he'll be getting another pair of Levi 501 jeans and a black long-sleeve silk tee. Take it...
Lots of things going on today so I'll just briefly cover them. First off, Digg has had a change of heart and unbanned many domains, including mine. Next time you feel that something is digg-worthy,...
Bandwagon has just launched not more than an hour ago (3am EST). Bandwagon is an online iTunes backup service for Mac users. It's not free with an introductory price of 69 per year, but they...
Yahoo!, in collaboration with AC Nielsen and a group of companies, government entities, etcetera, has launched a campaign to raise awareness about energy efficient light bulbs. 18Seconds.org is the location of the attractively-designed campaign, complete...
It was more than a year ago that I first mentioned the terms Wireless USB and Ultra-wideband, in regards to a wireless USB hub from Belkin. The wait is over and Belkin has officially released...
AppleInsider talked to people familiar with a project at Apple to produce a smaller MacBook. It will most likely not include an optical drive but will feature onboard NAND flash for zippy boot times. No...
After an extensive beta testing period, Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 1.0. Lightroom is a professional imaging application aimed at photographers hoping to get a grasp on their photo sets and adjust picture attributes on...
Note: You are about to read a "ghetto mod". Ghetto mods do not come with any guarantee other than some amusement.
I've got 5 beta invites for Virb, the up and coming social network that I am actually interested in. It's being developed by Unborn Media - the same people that made PureVolume. First five comments...
Wow, I must say I didn't expect to hear this - DigiTimes is reporting that Apple will begin shipping larger 15.4-inch MacBooks to bridge the gap between the 13.3-inch MacBook and the 15.4-inch MacBook Pro....
Continuing on the quest to find the perfect iPod Nano case, I'll be taking a look at Zofunk's line of 1st Gen iPod Nano cases. They also make cases for video iPods and 2nd Gen...
I don't often post YouTube videos, but I am willing to make this exception. I discovered a hilarious animated video of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates fighting [via digg]. By far the best part of...
In case you didn't snag a free year of Pingdom server monitoring back in December, Pingdom is offering a similar deal for Valentine's day. All you have to do is head over to this special...
I'm in the market for a VESA arm for my iMac. Being the massive 24-incher that it is and my desk being several inches taller than I'd like, looking straight on I'm gazing at the...
Technology is great, that is when it doesn't waste your money or time. Unfortunately, I have dealt with more than my fair share of worthless technology and gadgets. Overly advertised and hyped-up products that don't...
If you've ever tried to tinker with something in Vista and received a "you need permission to perform this action" warning, you know how frustrating it can be. Vista's new found "security" locks down a...
There might be some downtime today as I move from my older (dv) 2.0 to a (dv) 3.0 server. Downtime would likely occur at 4PM EST and on, if even noticeable. Just wanted to get...
9rules just underwent a massive redesign and feature addition. Codenamed "Ali", the new site's most interesting feature for me is called my.9rules. Users can have custom profile pages that aggregate their flickr photos, last.fm plays,...
A new service by the name of LinkedCampus is hoping to solve the modern problem of ineffective communication amongst campus dwellers. It has become quite clear that fliers and newspaper ads don't work anymore on...
Lots of things are going on today so I'll point you to them individually. First and foremost, Steve Jobs released a compelling letter on Apple.com entitled Thoughts on Music. In it, the Apple CEO discusses...
Last week Apple introduced four iPod Shuffles in vibrant colors including orange, making it the first iPod to be offered in orange. There were no changes made to the Shuffle other than the color and...
I mentioned a while ago that one of my courses this semester was helping out as a web intern/media manager for Georgia Tech's Solar Decathlon. In a nutshell, the Solar Decathlon is a competition established...
Thanks to a comment from Jim Karagiannis, I recently discovered Intype. Intype will be pretty much as close as you can get to TextMate's perfection on Windows. I say "will be" because Intype is only...
Over the last month my roommates and I have been planning on building some means for having stadium seating in our living room. The living room isn't too spacious and only had enough room for...
Back in December, there was considerable noise in the blogosphere surrounding the growing list of domains banned by Digg. As you all probably know by now my domain is on that list and has been...
9ruler Glenn Wolsey and several of his Apple-enthusiast friends have launched the blog MacApper. As you can probably infer from the name, MacApper will focus on everything OS X application related - from interviews with...
AntiRSI is a handy OS X application ideal for anyone on the computer more than a few hours per day. The universal binary application forces you to take regular breaks from computing to hinder the...
From the Steve-Jobs-is-having-a-field-day-with-this department, Microsoft has confirmed a hole in Windows Vista's speech recognition capability that allows a malicious site or email attachment to delete files remotely. But I would actually classify this hole as...
With the advent of dozens of customizable startpages from the likes of Google IG to Netvibes, Internet users have a big decision to make when it comes to setting their homepage. Long are the days...
Vista has finally arrived and it comes in an overwhelming variety of flavors. Wikipedia has a detailed chart comparing each version of Vista; on the high-end there is the Vista Ultimate full version retailing for...
PC users are well aware of Cerulean Studios' excellent Trillian instant messaging client. To the Mac users that haven't heard of Trillian before, it's pretty much the Adium of the PC world. Cerulean has begun...
I forgot to mention this earlier, but better late than never - Panic has updated Transmit to version 3.5.6 to combat a large vulnerability. The patched vulnerability dealt with an "exploitable heap-based buffer overflow condition"....
My good friends at ACS have finally begun to divulge information about their upcoming web service, Serph. I have used Serph since its infancy and can tell you it's a powerful service. What kind of...
Apple has released the 802.11n enabler alongside unexpected colorful iPod shuffles. The 802.11n will enable 802.11n connectivity on your current-generation Mac (C2D MacBook, C2D MacBook Pro, Mac Pro and C2D iMacs with the exception of...
I frequently receive emails from developers or PR people looking to inform me and you guys about new websites, services or products. From time to time I'll find a really interesting one and write up...
Mac users in Greece are well too aware of the fact that Apple does not have any localization for Greek OS X users. After a lot of work, several devoted Mac users have created a...
Shaun Inman has released the next version of Mint, the ever popular web stats tracking software. I've been using it since 2005 and this is the first substantial upgrade. If you purchased Mint before January...
Last week I got a copy of Vista Business edition through my MSDN Academic Alliance account at Georgia Tech. Obviously, I was compelled to install it and test it out. I was able to successfully...
I've been a Twitter user for a few weeks now and have come across many tools to help with Twitter posting and integration. I have also seen several Twitter mashups that essentially do RSS to...
Web design and development gurus Dan Rubin, Jonathan Snook, Bryan Veloso and Steve Smith have combined forces. They created Sidebar Creative - a powerful web development collective. Bryan tells me they're glad to work with...
Dell is now offering the "open-source n Series desktop solution" that can be shipped without an operating system. The open-source lineup consists of 3 well-priced and affordable Dell Dimension models. The higher end model, the...
For those wondering if you can charge a MacBook with a MacBook Pro power adapter - you can. The MacBook Pro power adapter has two modes, one for 18.5V @ 4.6A (85W) and another for...
WordPress 2.1 was released earlier today and it boasts many bug fixes (over 550 strong) and an impressive new feature list. For me the most important new feature is auto save for posts with a...
It wasn't too long ago that I wrote about The Venice Project (now named Joost) and how it was a unique online video content provider. Online video distribution has made its mark and isn't going...
The New York Times devoted an article to widgets yesterday - you know the kind that are typically found on blog sidebars. It was only in the last two years that widgets have started to...
Not too long after making us all salivate with the announcement of a 1TB drive, Seagate will be releasing a 15k RPM 2.5-inch hard drive under their Savvio line of drives. The enterprise class 2.5-inch...
With a name like Netflix, you'd think that Netflix would offer more than just mail-order DVD rentals. Well, it's going to happen. Netflix will be offering subscribers the ability to watch movies and TV shows...
and it's Devin's CMS. 9ruler Devin Reams has created a hilarious music video entitled It's Called WordPress. Devin is also the mastermind behind the 9rules rocks song. Enjoy.
Twitter, everyone's favorite useless yet addictive global away message service thing, seems to have been exploited by a user. Whenever someone visits twitter.com/x and is currently logged into their Twitter account, their Twitter message will...
Microsoft's Automotive Business Unit (I guess they are the MapPoint people?) is teaming up with a gasoline dispenser manufacturer to develop a system where drivers can download tunes while they're filling up. Straight from the...
I was just talking to Zach Hale about what we're each taking this semester and I figured a few of you might be interested in the coursework I'm pursuing. Zach's doing an Informatics major so...
Reader Jason Sanzone made a nifty RSS widget for OS X users. You might recall that Anthony Deloso made a Yahoo! widget for pstam.com back in the summer, after I got my own OS X...
In the smallest sense of the word, Facebook has expanded to include mobile phones today. Just visit m.facebook.com with your web-enabled phone to interact with the mobile-optimized site. I say "in the smallest sense of...
Today's keynote speech by Steve Jobs at MacWorld in San Francisco brought us several things - the hyped-up iPhone and Apple TV. On the side, Apple silently released an upgraded Airport Extreme base station with...
If you haven't stopped by TechMeme today, let me be the first to fill you in. Bill Gates had a great keynote at CES yesterday where Microsoft unveiled their Windows Home Server. It's a simple...
Update: The Venice Project is now Joost. Over the last few weeks beta testers have been having some fun with The Venice Project, a highly-anticipated streaming television service. With the growing availability of high bandwidth...
I just got back to Atlanta to find out that my RSS feed doesn't seem to be working. I'll look into this after I unpack. Update: Hrm, now I'm getting "Server returned HTTP Error 500:...
WordPress 2.0.6 is out and it's being classified as a "pretty important release" with some major security fixes. In addition, HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers in this release. That's one of the bigger...
I remember when 750GB drives were all the rage, but Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 drive has dropped my jaw. The retail is only 399! Several months after the 750GB drives became mainstream it wasn't uncommon to...
Webjam, not to be confused with the Webjam Session conference, is another in the seemingly crowded startup market for do-it-all sites. When you create an account, Webjam automatically makes a few pages for you -...
Unlike Arrington, I am thoroughly pleased with Daylife - an up and coming startup changing the way we absorb news. Particularly, I find the "covers" method of discovering news stories to be a powerful method...
Ziki is another social network that has been making waves lately - primarily because the first 10,000 Ziki users get their name sponsored in Google, Yahoo and MSN for free. Ziki is loosely defined as...
There's a new social network community in the making and it goes by the name of groovr. With the rise of Web 2.0 and every other web app somehow relating to social media, it can...
2006 was a great year for me. I got to experience working at a big web company, started blogging more often and took some interesting courses at school. I plan to keep up with that...
The day I've been waiting for has come. Media Temple has launched the next version of their dedicated-virtual server. I have been using a (dv) 2.0 for about a year now and can't wait to...
By now you are probably waiting for the final part of this web app series so you can actually begin putting something together from what you've learned in Part 1 and Part 2. I won't...
In Part 1 of How To: Code Your First Web App, I covered the basics of setting up a MySQL database, connecting to it with PHP and then I introduced a few functions to create...
There's a lengthy discussion going on at Lifehacker about software that their readers have purchased this year. In the spirit of that post, I decided I might as well chime in and list the applications...
In its most basic form, a web application is typically comprised of multiple files utilizing PHP and MySQL technologies on a LAMP server. PHP provides a powerful means of carrying out your web application's functions...
In some crazy blog meme, I've been tagged by Glenn and Ralph. So here goes... 5 things you didn't know about Stammy. I won't be tagging anyone as I find that these little memes get...
24ways.org, the amazingly helpful and interesting "web geek advent calendar" organized by Yahoo! employee Drew McClellan, has finished for 2006. The 24 article run began on December 1st of this year and ended today with...
It appears the Russian AllofMP3.com has been handed a hefty lawsuit by the RIAA "on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music." The lawsuit somehow justifies a cost of 150,000 per song...
Pingdom is giving away a year of site monitoring service on their blog to anyone that signs up for Pingdom by 6am EST Saturday. They are giving away many accounts - "the equivalent of at...
Keeping in-line with last year's successful Happy Holidays Contest, I introduce to you the second annual Happy Holidays Contest. I got a lot of great suggestions and comments with the last contest. Last year I...
Tech consulting has become a thriving industry for several key reasons. First off, there are many businesses devoid of any direction to establish an efficient workflow. It only takes a few steps for small businesses...
Cisco announced a new line of VoIP iPhones sold under their Linksys division. Yup, they're stepping on Apple's toes a bit but rightfully so as Cisco has owned the iPhone trademark for a while now....
Opera 9.1 was released today and utilizes phishing information from PhishTank to provide real-time fraud protection. The new fraud protection goes beyond the anti-phishing capability introduced in earlier Opera releases. Check out the new features...
SEOBook, a well-known site for all things search engine optimization, has recently published a comprehensive glossary. Their SEM glossary breaks down several hundred terms often used by those in the Search Engine Marketing know. In...
Adobe Labs released the first Beta of Photoshop CS3, optimized for Intel processors, yesterday. I downloaded it as soon as I got settled in NYC and I must say I am loving the improvements. In...
Philips has recently added some spice to online trailers after a partnership launched with MSN. Philips and MSN unveiled a website showcasing trailers with Ambilight functionality. Philips is well-known for their Ambilight series of televisions...
Microsoft has devoted months of research, testing, customer feedback, and refinements into their new homepage design. The focus of the new design was usability as many users had complained that the old design was difficult...
My last final exam just wrapped up this afternoon and I'm finally starting to relax a bit. Finals went well, I think, so hopefully I made Dean's list again. I've been doing some last minute...
I love flickr. I really really do. No longer do I litter my hard drive with gigs and gigs of scattered photographs kept in folders all named some variation of 101MSDCF. I keep my 5,500+...
DealNews has a comprehensive holiday shipping guide informing shoppers of shipping stats from various online stores - such as the last day they can get free shipping at Apple or Amazon. In addition, DealNews has...
MacHeist began selling their ridiculously underpriced bundle of OS X apps today. One-fourth of the money made from MacHeist goes to a charity of your choice.. and it seems like MacHeist will be helping out...
Mac users rejoice! Release 0.8.6 of the VideoLAN client media player supports Windows Media Video 9, Flash video as well as improved H.264 decoding. This means you won't have to rely on Flip4MAC for your...
The Save the Internet blog reports that Congress has dismissed Senator Ted Stevens' anti-net neutrality bill. The bill would have been one of many bills aimed at giving massive telecommunications corporations the ability to charge...
I just finished my last blog post for Intel's Blogger Challenge. The Intel Blogger Challenge started at the end of October and aimed to get the opinions of "rising stars in the blogosphere" on a...
In the first real YouTube feature update since the Google buyout, YouTube has introduced the blog-worthy quick capture. In addition to the video toolbox that helps amateur 'tubers improve their video recording skills, quick capture...
Low on cash but overflowing with mad technical know-how? Why not give your family and friends the Gift of Safe this holiday season? Gift of Safe is a holiday site created by OpenDNS encouraging people...
I just wrapped up 2 final projects for my interaction design and information design courses today, taking a huge burden off of my shoulders. I figured I would show you what I've been working on...
APC mag reports that Microsoft Office 2007 makes use of Microsoft Office Open XML Formats, however there is nothing "open" about these formats to Office for Mac users. As I blogged about back in April,...
Inc magazine has published an interesting conversation with Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield. They reminisce about the very beginning of Flickr, how they came up with the name and how they had originally...
December is here and the holidays are in clear sight. If you haven't kick-started your holiday shopping on Black Friday, I'll be sharing a few unique gifts you can pick up for the techie in...
Yes, I just made that term up but I bet there is already someone out there that goes by that title. From years of providing 24/7 tech support to family, extended family, friends and readers...
There's some interesting discussion going on at Ronald Heft's blog regarding the Parallels virtualization software. Parallels software has become very popular among Intel Mac users, letting them simultaneously run Windows. The latest Parallels beta has...
Update 7-17-09: This post is rather outdated. The car has a substantially different setup. Coilover suspension and a Brembo GT brake system currently.
I didn't mean to scare the Nike+ iPod toters out there but an interesting article on Wired explores the vulnerabilities of the high-tech shoe accessory. I first introduced you to the Nike+ system back in...
OpenDNS's PhishTank just made their stats for November public and the results are great. There have been over 93,000 votes by PhishTank users to validate 9,628 phishes out of 18,130 phishes submitted. PhishTank, which I...
The Official Google Blog reported last night that they will stop accepting new questions for Google Answers later this week. Google Answers has been around for 4 years and has remained relatively primitive compared to...
Just in time for the holidays, Apple has released 3 new Get a Mac advertisements. There is "Sales Pitch" where the PC tries to sell itself with sales gimicks. "Meant for Work" displays an overworked...
Last Friday I partook in the Black Friday sales frenzy and purchased a 4GB SanDisk Micro Cruzer USB flash drive for 60. It seemed like a great deal compared to the retail price of 99....
Ifrogz, the producer of many iPod accessories including customizable silicone cases, which I reviewed a few months ago, has a new product out: their niche Tadpole line of cases for the iPod Video. The Tadpole...
Blackboard, maker of e-learning solutions used by many universities, is offering three 25,000 grants to institutions that currently use Blackboard products or services. Faculty and staff of these institutions are encouraged to apply for the...
10 Minute Mail provides disposable email addresses for anyone. As expected, the email addresses expire after 10 minutes of their creation. That's more than enough time to sign up for some shady website, receive the...
An article published on The Times reports that parents and teachers are trying to get UK schools to take down their wireless networks for a health risk. You gotta be kidding me. Apparently, "low levels...
Think twice next time you mount a .dmg file in OS X as it is possible for someone to craft a corrupt disk image allowing even unprivileged users to exploit the system. The vulnerability, which...
Flickr recently rolled out three new features on the insanely popular photo sharing site. There's the guest pass feature which lets you show private photosets to non-flickr users with unique URLs. Flickr has revamped their...
As you may have picked up on with my Black Friday article, I am definitely a fan of pursuing great deals, especially when it comes to electronics. When you think of deal sites and communities,...
By definition, a Universal Binary (when talking about OS X applications) refers to an application that is compatible with both the Intel and PowerPC processor architectures. Therefore, each UB application is a little bit larger...
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that marks the first shopping day of the Christmas season, is only a few days away. Black Fridays are known for chaotic shopping experiences with overcrowded stores offering highly...
Nope, that's not a typo for Flock. There is a web service called Fleck that has been building a web annotation tool for about a year. Essentially, Fleck adds another layer to the web thus...
For the bulk of this rainy day I have been packing up and getting ready to move a few blocks down the road. This would be our third townhouse since August. We're moving into the...
When you think of a DSLR camera, some clunky and expensive professional camera usually comes to mind, right? Nikon is breaking that misconception with their new D40 camera - Nikon's smallest and most affordable DSLR...
Everyone wants to be like John C. Dvorak (play along.. I'm going somewhere with this). You know why? Because as his catch phrase goes, he gets no spam. Enterto has an email service that claims...
It wasn't long ago that I was talking with my roommate about how it was only a matter of time before someone was able to get the HD-DVD add-on for the Xbox 360 working with...
I don't often talk about gaming on this site but with all of the buzz surrounding the Nintendo Wii, I couldn't avoid it. Nintendo's next-gen Wii gaming console has been the center of attention for...
Havi Hoffman, my hiring manager from Yahoo!, has written up a post on Yodel Anecdotal about this past Monday's Time Capsule Camp. There were about 70 of us and the day began with a scavenger...
When Google updated their Reader not too long ago, I started using it full-time instead of NewsFire. I'm always using my browser, so why not have my feeds in it too? That was also my...
ReviewMe is a new service catering to blog publishers and advertisers that launched tonight. ReviewMe is a service that takes the power of blogs to heart. Any blogger can become a member on the site...
It was not too long ago that Apple updated the MacBook Pros with Intel Core 2 Duo processors. Today they have done the same with the regular MacBooks. Each MacBook now sports a Core 2...
I just came back from dinner with David and Allison from OpenDNS and they gave me the scoop on a new feature that launches today. OpenDNS accounts give users more control over their online experience...
Thanks to all of those who voted for me and helped spread the word about the recent scholarship for student bloggers. I did not take first place but I received 2nd place and 1000 will...
Have you ever been on a PC and had the secret desire to run all of those cool OS X dashboard widgets you see all the Mac bloggers talking about? Me neither, but Widgetop is...
With the rapid growth of the web and businesses flocking to pursue online services, it's no wonder that uptime is of utmost importance. Downtime on mission critical servers can cost businesses money, annoy users and...
On Sunday I'll be flying out to Sunnyvale (first class, courtesy of Yahoo!) to help out with Yahoo's Time Capsule Camp which takes place on Monday November 6th. I blogged about this event a while...
Google has released a mobile Java application that dramatically speeds up Gmail. The unique helper application resides on the user's J2ME-enabled mobile phone and adds usability improvements to the Gmail interface alongside speed enhancements. The...
Okay that title might be a little ambitious but I truly believe that 281 is different from most WordPress themes. 281 is a joint project between myself and Neil Patel of Pronet Advertising. Neil approached...
Phill Ryu's My Dream App might have just ended but a new online sensation is about to begin. MacHeist is the name and shareware (Mac app) love is the game. Okay that sounded a bit...
In cooperation with Ogilvy PR and the help of Rohit Bhargava, Intel has launched their blogger challenge. The Intel Blogger Challenge is a 5 week long challenge of sorts where 6 bloggers are asked to...
I woke up to a great email this morning. Apparently I have been chosen as a Top 10 finalist for a 5,000 blogging scholarship for college students. The final winner is chosen via an online...
Visa USA has just launched a new online campaign entitled Business Breakthrough designed to help busy small business owners and entrepreneurs. The site offers valuable resources via an archive of video case studies that Visa...
If you hurry up you can purchase the Disco public beta from MacZot for 14.95. Disco is a small and powerful CD/DVD burning application with a very unique twist - amazing design and it actually...
For all the Intel Mac users out there, Apple has updated the Boot Camp beta to version 1.1.2. Unlike previous releases, 1.1.2 is a considerable update and is highly recommended for all Boot Camp users....
One of my highest-ranked pet peeves about blogging regards bloggers who don't take the time to do a bit of researching before posting an article. This is aimed at "A-list" bloggers more than anything. They...
WordPress version 2.0.5 codename 'Ronan' has just hit the servers. This version is a highly recommended upgrade for WordPress 2.0 users as it includes numerous security fixes, bug fixes and a performance increase. Download it...
Apple's new .Mac webmail has gone live. The new .Mac webmail rollout features AJAX technology including drag-and-drop functionality as well as a familiar Mail.app interface. It also utilizes IMAP instead of POP3 so everything is...
BeatnikPad has long been releasing optimized versions of Firefox for G4 and G5 PowerPC processor Macs. Today Neil from BeatnikPad has released optimized versions of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 for G4, G5 and Intel processor Macs....
Reader Brian Pinard has reviewed the Logitech VX Revolution mouse. Unlike the MX Revolution mouse I reviewed this past weekend, the VX was designed with notebook users in mind. It has a smaller form factor,...
Things just keep getting better for WordPress.com users. Back in August, the WordPress crew unveiled the custom CSS upgrade for WordPress.com bloggers. Now, WordPress.com users may use their own domain or register a new one...
When an Apple contact told me last night that there would be new Macbook Pros today, I was a little skeptical. But alas, Apple came through this morning releasing updated MacBook Pros. The MBP hasn't...
Linux users will be pleased to know that Redhat's Fedora Project has unveiled Fedora Core 6 today. Due to the high traffic of the Redhat site today, downloading FC6 over BitTorrent is probably the fastest...
Reading an article by Om Malik in this month's Business 2.0 magazine earlier today, I began thinking of the successful web application and the future of the web. As broadband connectivity becomes cheaper and faster,...
ArsTechnica, Lifehacker, 456 Berea St, Neowin.net, BetaNews and many others are reporting that while Firefox 2.0 has a scheduled release for tomorrow, the download is live. Get it for yourself: Win32, Mac, Linux. Update: It...
Logitech has always had a strong presence in the high-performance mouse market. They were the first to have a virtually lag free cordless mouse (MX700), the first large company to produce a cordless laser mouse...
For the past few days I have been playing around with Gawker, a unique OS X application that lets you easily record time lapse video. Gawker makes it incredibly pain free to create these time...
Josh from Cooliris just emailed me to let me know that PicLens Beta 1 has been released. PicLens completely changes the way view online images. After quickly installing this currently Safari-only plugin, I took it...
Over the last few weeks I have talked about applications and services that enhance iTunes, such as Qloud's tagging plugin and Soundflavor's iTunes add-on. Get ready to welcome one more application to this group, Tangerine....
Yahoo! will be holding a day-long camp on November 6th at Sunnyvale HQ to benefit their newly created online Time Capsule. The massive Time Capsule will be filled with various forms of media - video,...
As mentioned earlier, Microsoft has been busy preparing Internet Explorer 7 for public distribution. It went live for download earlier today. You can read about it at the MSDN IEBlog or you can go to...
Media Temple launched their latest offerings today along with a redesigned site. After logging in, current (ss) users will see a new button allowing them to migrate to the new (gs) platform. The (gs) runs...
No I'm not quoting a rap song today, I'm talking about my MacBook problems. I got my MacBook back two weeks ago after Apple held it captive repaired it for random shutdown syndrome. That was...
CNET has launched a new site dedicated to video clips for everything from news to reviews. Anyone familiar with CNET knows that they are no stranger to video. Nearly every product review is accompanied with...
Coming up with a killer idea is no easy feat. I'm talking about that perfect idea that makes you consider dropping out of school or quitting your job to pursue it; something that could have...
Dave from Jungle Disk pointed me to an Apple article for preventing .DS_Store file creation. These .DS_Store files are created multiple times when connecting to a remote file server, such as a SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS...
Just an FYI for Transmit app users, version 3.5.5 is out. The update is primarily a bug fix, as you can investigate into with the official release notes. The most notable of the bug fixes...
Intel, the corporation responsible for your speedy Mac, has launched the IT@Intel Blog. It seems like all the big companies are catching on to this business blogging trend; I love it. A quick look around...
Google has merged its separate Writely and spreadsheets web applications into Google Docs & Spreadsheets. The new service will further Google's strength as an online office suite, currently competing with Zoho.
A startup by the name of Qloud (pronounced "cloud") launched their public beta today for a people powered music search engine of sorts. Music search on Qloud can be done in three different ways -...
It has been along time coming but Media Temple is ready to unleash their latest offering, the (gs). What makes the (gs) so different from the current (ss) Shared Server platform? Everything. First off, Grid-Server...
Burned laptop is the aroma currently in the air at the library as of now. A while ago, some guy's laptop 20 feet or so away from me started overheating profusely and sounding its own...
In Google's eight year history they have never spent as much in an acquisition as they did today. Google announced earlier today that they have completed the agreement process and have bought YouTube for a...
I have been tracking Amazon S3 ever since it was announced back in March. S3 is an innovative, developer-oriented Simple Storage Service with extremely low prices - 15 cents per gig stored, 20 cents per...
The recently launched PopDeal is a web service that coalesces social media and shopping. Users can submit items, in this case links to online deals (mostly gadgets and computer hardware), and vote them up or...
In a few weeks, web developers everywhere will have a burden lifted from their backs. Microsoft will be rolling out Internet Explorer 7 to the public. Soon after the download is made available to the...
Apple finally called and let me know that my MacBook had been repaired. I had given Apple my MacBook for 3-4 weeks to fix the random shutdown issue. It seems like they fixed it; they...
Soundflavor DJ is an innovative application (Windows only at the moment) that builds playlists on the fly, depending the the type of music you're listening to. I haven't tried Soundflavor DJ out as I have...
Google, who has been rather quiet on the AJAX Search API front, has unleashed an updated beta release today. Most notably is the feature inclusion of GnewsSearch which allows you to attain Google News results...
Thanks to some great PR information from Allison Rhodes at OpenDNS, I have learned that PhishTank has launched today, at the beginning of National Cyber Security Awareness Month. PhishTank as you can probably guess from...
Everywhere you browse online these days, you're bound to find some new job board. They're ubiquitous; there's GigaOM Jobs, the 37Signals Job Board, TechCrunch's CrunchBoard, Cameron Moll's Authentic Jobs and countless others. Regardless of which...
Perian is a project that allows your QuickTime (Mac only) player to play just about every video format, with the exception of Windows Media. Simply drag the Perian component to your QuickTime library directory and...
Apple released 10.4.8 to everyone via Software Update tonight. The update comes in at 211MB (for the Intel version) and is fairly comprehensive with details listed on Apple Docs. Interesting updates include resolving "performance issues...
Google has just updated their web-based RSS aggregator, Reader, and guess what.. it's actually usable. I really could not stand the first version Google Reader, which was launched almost 1 year ago. The recent update...
As of September 26th, 2006, the general public can have a go at purchasing the newest Top-Level Domain, .mobi. As the name implies, .mobi is restricted for sites that adhere to mobile-compatibility style guidelines. So...
Congrats to everyone at Yahoo! for the successful acquisition of Jumpcut. Jumpcut is a a social media service.. in a sense. It is similar to Motionbox which I briefly looked at, but allows users to...
Microsoft released Messenger 6.0 for Mac today. The most notable improvement has been the move to a Universal Binary with the ability to chat with Yahoo! messenger accounts and display your current playing track in...
Facebook opened the flood gates this morning, allowing anyone to sign up for an account. Previously, Facebook was restricted to college students with a .edu email address, then it was opened up for a few...
Release Candidate 1, not to be mistaken with last week's post about the RC for RC1, for Firefox 2.0 will be available here by 3PM Pacific time today. Mozilla states that this release candidate is...
The new iMacs have a Broadcom 802.11n network adapter that, while hidden in OS X, is visible in Vista. The speculation is that Apple's upcoming iTV set top box will make use of 802.11n and...
Earlier in the month, I mentioned how Amazon had released their movie downloading service called Unbox. Just from reading about it, I had thought the restrictions far outweighed the little advantages with overly large downloads...
It rained a little bit in Atlanta this evening and our cable connection, provided by Comcast, has been down for the last 6 hours. When I called 5 hours ago, they said it would be...
I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but better late than never. The 9rules content network of which PaulStamatiou.com is a member will be having its 5th submission round on October 25th. That gives you...
The Inquirer got their hands on the latest flash drive offering from Corsair, the Readout. Simply put, the Readout is a 1GB USB stick with a screen, informing you of space remaining as well as...
Mozilla has been coding away to hit their scheduled Firefox 2.0 launch date sometime in the near future (November?). As such, you can now get your hands on the first release candidate for Firefox 2.0...
After 9rules released their comprehensive new search feature on Monday, allowing users to search member content and receive results from Flickr, YouTube and Technorati, it was only a matter of time before someone created a...
Thanks to a suggestion from Bryan Veloso this weekend, I started using The Unarchiver, a small yet capable archive unpacker. It was designed to be a replacement for OS X's BOMArchiveHelper.app and The Unarchiver exceeds...
Derek has written a thorough tutorial showing Mac users the basics of cloning their hard drive. With an effective hard drive clone, if your primary drive ever goes down you can just boot from your...
Today I bring to you my first impressions (a pseudo-review) of the Apple 24-inch iMac, joining my first impressions of the Intel Mac Mini and MacBook. Apple is known for taking bold steps and setting...
Newsfire and Acquisition creator Dave Wantanabe is currently working on a BitTorrent client for OS X dubbed Xtorrent. As with all of Dave's creations, Xtorrent looks amazing. Try out the public beta for yourself. While...
I thought Microsoft had forgotten about Mac users, but it seems like Office will be receiving a much needed update. Office 2007 for Mac will borrow heavily from the Beta released for PC users a...
Yesterday morning was my Apple Genius appointment to turn in my MacBook to repair its random shutdown syndrome. However, there had been some miscommunication from the last time I spoke with the Apple Geniuses as...
iLounge was quick to snatch up the newest iPod Nanos and pump out a great review. It's probably the most comprehensive iPod review ever published, with comparison pictures from every angle, pictures of the new...
In an uphill battle to compete with extremely popular personalized homepages like Netvibes, Pageflakes and Wegwag, Google has expanded their own offering today. The recent trends of people keeping track of their favorite sites with...
I had no idea how many of you guys used coComment, the web service that lets you track and share your conversations, until I recently checked out the coComment Sites page. That page lists the...
Okay well it's not quite 1PM EST when Apple's "Showtime" keynote is set to take place, but it's time to prepare your wallet for the festivities. TUAW claims to have gotten the schedule for tomorrow's...
Microsoft has released the beta for a spiffy looking RSS Aggregator codenamed Max. The Redmond folks have been doing some tech community-friendly things recently with the Windows Live Writer Beta blogging tool and now this....
Some interesting news comes today from The Independent, stating that Nationwide Insurance will be the first company to insure your digital music. It's about time insurance companies got up to speed with technology. If your...
With the rising popularity of online video podcasts and other video content along with sites like YouTube, it's no surprise that people have begun embracing the culture and creating applications to easily manage the wealth...
I wrote my first real post on this blog exactly one year ago today. This post marks the 473rd entry which means I've blogged roughly 1.3 times per day. Those posts have accumulated over a...
If your MacBook is shutting down intermittently, please contact AppleCare for service. Yep, that's the only thing the Apple Docs page says.
Today Amazon.com released a video download and rental service called Unbox. With more reasonable prices from 7.99 to 14.99 to purchase a DVD-quality movie and 3.99 to rent a movie (1-2 cheaper for TV shows),...
Tom's Networking took the new Wi-Fi Skype phone from SMC for a test drive and unfortunately it didn't live up to their expectations. It doesn't allow for text chat nor browser-based authentication for access points...
Apple pulled a surprising move today and discretely updated the iMac and Mac Mini's before the confirmed September 12th "Showtime" event. Hopefully this means that the event is going to show off many new products...
A revamped Facebook launched today. The main site design pretty much stayed the same but when users login they will notice a few different things on their home page, such as the current events and...
After hearing numerous reports about a problem with early "Rev A" MacBooks shutting down, I was comforted by the fact that I had not experienced this problem. Unfortunately for me, my MacBook exhibited its first...
Jon from MondayByNoon has some lively conversation on his latest post which weighs the pros and cons of using full and partial RSS feeds for syndication. In a nutshell, full feeds are awesome for the...
In response to the horribly inaccurate Back to School Cheat Sheet on CrunchGear, Derek Punsalan wrote an interesting rebuttal with a proper shopping list of his own. CrunchGear is coming under attack since the list...
I know it's a little late to announce this, but if you live in the US and have nothing better to do this evening, turn your TV on to ABC. As of this writing no...
The past few weeks in the Apple community have been chockful of rumors that Apple will hold a special event next Tuesday, September 12th. What they are going to release then is anyone's guess. However,...
As of this writing the Firefox 2 Beta 2 download page doesn't link to it but with this URL you can download Beta 2. I have been using Beta 1 ever since it was released...
The folks at Global Gaming League have compiled a very impressive list of the top 10 colleges that excel at gaming. They actually did a survey of students at many universities, so this is a...
Last weekend at Foo Camp, a small company named Chumby Industries showed off their newest prototype creation. Simply called the Chumby, the compact device sports a 266MHz ARM processor, 32MB SDRAM, a good-sized 3.5 inch...
Poking through my feeds this late night I saw that Ron wrote up a little piece about the future of Google Talk. It turns out that Google has made an agreement with Skype, allowing the...
According to MSNBC and the entire blogosphere, Google will be releasing a set of Office tools as an extension of the whole "for your domain" service (remember how there was gmail for your domain?). The...
Kudos to the Flickr folks at Yahoo! as they will be rolling out geo tagging functionality later today as noted on TechCrunch. Utilizing Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Search technology, the new flickr feature will bring...
With the news that Yahoo! fully supports microformats, there are undoubtedly a few questions from the not-so-techy web user. Having had the chance to briefly speak with Tantek about microformats at BarCamp SF this past...
Apple has released three more viral advertisements into the wild. The first is entitled Accident and focuses on the magsafe feature in MacBooks. Angel/Devil shows what you can make with iPhoto while Trust Mac emphasizes...
Tonight I replaced the dead and uninteresting links page with a just as badly named page, linkage. This page keeps track of my ever growing list of accounts for various Web 2.0 services and helps...
Browsing around online, I have come across many blogs and taken note of their unique writing styles and formats. Many of these blogs had horrible readability for a number of reasons other than design. This...
9ruler Ben Gray wrote a great tutorial detailing the process and tools required for creating a simple solo podcast similar to the ones he regularly records. He covers ID3 tags for published audio files, feeds...
I arrived safely in Atlanta last Friday and have been building Ikea furniture ever since. I have a somewhat habitable room right now and after a hectic day of trying to piece together my course...
Tech startup Calgoo has just released the "First Draft" of their innovative software that allows you to manage your Google Calendar account in a full application. There are several advantages of taking your calendar from...
It seems like I'm announcing some new Gmail feature every month, but they are definitely welcomed features. This month Google adds the ability to play mp3 audio files attached in emails. This feature adds-on to...
In an effort to play catchup with MySpace, the student-oriented social media site Facebook has released a new feature called notes. Notes brings blogging functionality to Facebook in the most simplistic form of the word....
The popular Java-based BitTorrent super-client, Azureus, has hit version 2.5. You can grab your copy on the Azureus Sourceforge page. This version packs a bunch of new features as listed on the changelog; notable improvements...
Young mac blogger Phill Ryu has finally launched an idea he has had floating around for a while - MyDreamApp.com. With the help of several accomplished developers and many guest judges including tech celebs like...
After nearly half a year of buzz and beta testing, Advantage Consulting Service's creation of Crazy Egg is open to the public. If that name sounds familiar, you might have seen ACS's name floating around...
9rules designer Mike Rundle explores the concept of Chris Anderson's Long Tail and how it relates to 9rules in a great read entitled Niche Blogs and The Long Tail of Content. In a nutshell, there...
To keep up with new Google properties like gCalendar, Google has ditched the popular Gmail Notifier for a revamped application aptly dubbed Google Notifier. The new Mac application adds a calendar icon to your menubar...
This tip is for a very select group of readers - WordPress bloggers using Steve Smith's Tiger Admin beautification plugin. While the plugin is great in terms of admin panel aesthetics, it detracts from usability...
Be sure to snag the newly released SMC firmware update (v1.4f10) for your shiny (or matte) MacBook on this Apple Support page. Like all Apple firmware updates you must install the update and tell the...
Google has updated their homemade instant messaging client, Google Talk, today. The most important feature addition is what I'd like to call smart file sharing. You can drag-and-drop files or folders to share with contacts....
For the past few days I have been slowly packing up for the drive up to Atlanta (from Houston) to begin another school year. This year will be different. I'm trying to take up as...
Before I left Yahoo! for the summer, some of the interns and I had recorded a podcast regarding the new age of social media - facebook, myspace, stuff like that. The post was published this...
Apple updated its beta Boot Camp software that enables Intel Mac users to dual-boot Windows XP and OS X with ease. Update your copy and snag the latest release (202MB) on the Boot Camp page....
Microsoft shocked me when they recently released an interesting new blog authoring tool, Windows Live Writer (beta of course). The really interesting part is that, while geared for Windows Live Spaces users, Live Writer works...
Run Windows XP and want to have the benefit of easier to read, less-jaggy fonts system-wide? Yeah, I thought so too. Right-click the desktop, select Properties, head over to the Appearance tab and click on...
Adobe has finally released the latest version of Flash for Mactel users. As of recently, I've come across several websites that operate only if you have Flash 9 installed, so it's a welcomed release. Download...
Michael Heilemann and the K2 team have released a long-awaited update to K2, the theme used by thousands of bloggers. Version 0.9 eliminates most if not all of the bugs present in past versions of...
Love the power and functionality of WebKit (the stuff that makes Safari happen) but stuck on a Redmond box? No worries, just download the latest alpha of Swift. Direct Download Link for Swift 0.1.
It has been a bit over a month since I got my Motorola Q Smartphone and I've started to see this device in a whole new light. I hate this thing. The OS is borderline...
The third-generation of wireless technology for mobile devices just started reaching the mainstream when Sprint announced their plans to establish 4G by 2008. ArsTechnica reports how the 4G technology will be based upon the upcoming...
OpenDNS is the cutting-edge Internet service by a San Francisco-based startup founded by David Ulevitch. Simply put, with OpenDNS you are no longer tied to using your ISP's slow DNS servers. I have been using...
Last month I talked about how I moved most of my bookmarks in my browser onto del.icio.us with the help of Pukka. I enjoy the flexibility that web services such as del.icio.us afford - letting...
Today was the highly anticipated first day of Apple's World Wide Developers Conference. The major treat at this year's WWDC was the unveiling of the Mac Pro and then the Xserve. Completing the move to...
Usually after hitting rock bottom once, a company learns from its actions and fixes things. Apparently this is not the case with AOL. Earlier yesterday they released a 439MB file (~2GB uncompressed) of approximately 20...
The folks at Maximum PC magazine have compiled a roundup of four popular 23 and 24-inch LCD displays in their September 2006 issue. They took a look at the Dell 2407WFP (850), the Viewsonic VP2330wb...
Charles and Brian from 123MacMini.com have ventured into the MacBook enthusiast site arena and just launched 123MacBook.com. I think 123MacBook actually started out as I casually mentioned it to Charles as a joke, but the...
Om Malik, whom I met last night at the WordCamp kickoff, introduces a new protocol called Cache Discovery Protocol or simply CDP. It works by finding better, cached seeds on the network for your bittorrent...
WordPress.com users rejoice, the WordPress team has added a new and welcomed feature - custom CSS. Until now, you had to stick with the limited customization that came with the stock themes. By purchasing the...
Today is my last official day at Yahoo! and appropriately enough the WordCamp kickoff party is taking place tonight. WordCamp is the latest spin on the whole BarCamp concept, this one centering around WordPress users,...
The day we launched Yodel Anecdotal, Podtech.net reporter Catherine Girardeau stopped by to ask us some questions on the new corporate blog. Enjoy.
Google has finally released a tool set for OS X toting users of their Picasa Web Albums photo sharing service. Jeremy Flint takes the tools for a test drive and reports that the beta applications...
In an effort to move their focus to growing their online advertising business, AOL has announced that their software and email products will be free for broadband internet users. Dial-up users will obviously still have...
Today is a great day. I get to open my mouth and let you in on the project I've been working on ever since I arrived at Yahoo! earlier this summer. I present to you...
The people have spoken. We don't need a phone that plays live TV, lets us download MP3's on-the-fly or even takes pictures. Just give us a simple phone that has a decent form factor, damn...
There has been a lot of buzz around Microsoft's new (hopefully) soon-to-be application, Photosynth. The new application manipulates photos in a unique way, allowing its users to create 3D structures based on the photographs imported...
ArsTechnica has the scoop on a new feature Microsoft recently added into builds of Windows Vista. The new feature, called Previous Versions, is enabled for users with the System Protection setting enabled. Previous Versions is...
Hack A Day featured a reader that was intuitive enough to think that the green LED that's on when you're not using your mouse is just wasting power. Yeah the power LED is a bit...
The last computer peripheral I need to replaced before having a complete Apple setup was my mouse. For many years, I have been extremely fond of Logitech mice. Ergonomics, performance and features - Logitech mice...
Today I took another full-day outing with Bryan Veloso and Phil Freo. We had just planned to go superkarting (think fast go-karts) but one thing led to the next and we went all over the...
Sorry for the almost 2 hours of downtime earlier today. Apparently a generator caught fire in the datacenter (the Garland building in LA) where (mt) servers live. Actually, it wasn't just Media Temple. It seems...
After lingering in a non-existent then beta phase for what seemed like an eternity, Flip4Mac has been released as a Universal Binary. As most people know, Microsoft has never been fond of supporting Mac users,...
If you're looking to expose some detail on any of your photos and have Photoshop, check out these easy tips. I've been using the first one, unmask sharpen, for a long time, but more recently...
At a press release (which I was invited to, but couldn't attend) at Santa Clara Intel HQ this morning, Intel CEO Paul Otellini outlined the new processors. The Conroe-based E6700, E6600, E6400 and E6300 Core...
Allyn Edmonds has a very impressive list of over 100 web-based RSS readers. He mentions a bit about each aggregator as well. I don't think I've ever come across such a comprehensive list of aggregators....
This past weekend I talked about a great little application called Todos. While many passed it off as a novelty application with little use, thousands flocked to its unique approach as an application finder and...
Browsing through my iTunes library yesterday, I realized something. I buy a lot of music. Using my peers and college friends as an example, I am one of the few people that actually purchases music...
As Technorati founder David Sifry explains, the popular blog and tag search engine Technorati turned 3 years old today. Sifry and crew pulled off an amazing redesign which IMO increases usability a ton. I might...
Yup, you've guessed it. It's time for another meme. Mr. Olthuis has so generously tagged me to participate in the top 5 social media tools meme. This was actually in good time because I had...
Several people have asked me how I created the header image in my sidebar, so I figured I would make a post out of it. Most of the stuff is easy to do, the only...
Being surrounded by technical genius at work everyday, I was bound to pick up a few pieces of wisdom. Working on some top secret stuff for Yahoo!, I quickly learned that every website or blog...
Strolling through my flickr feeds I landed upon the photo below in Chris Messina's photostream. It's from an innovative little application called Todos. Todos, which means "all of them" in Spanish, displays a window showing...
After exchanging a few design words with Mike Rundle, jet-setter and 9rules designer extraordinaire, I've spent most of the evening tweaking my sidebar. Since the recent realignment, I had always felt uneasy about the composure...
Yesterday's shocking news of YouTube's alteration to their policy (MySpace had a similar thing going on until they recently made it more friendly) stated that YouTube pretty much owns anything you upload. It's no surprise...
Earlier last week Icy Dock had contacted me about a review opportunity but being in California away from all my computers, I directed them to roommate-zilla. Icy Dock sent Chris one of their newer internal...
Uncrate has posted a simple list of 10 items that can help you pimp your new MacBook. I was a little disappointed that many dealt with the same concept - eg, several cases were displayed....
To deal with the influx of new members that joined 9rules in Round Four, the 9rules crew just decided to go ahead and completely revamp the site. One of the main problems with the last...
Today AOL launched a new product, AIM Pro, that takes the AIM protocol and merges it with the WebEx business suite. With AIM Pro, AOL is taking advantage of the fact that many businesses use...
Dennis at MacsimumNews speculates about something that has been running in my mind a lot recently, the next Apple Cinema Displays. The current trend with every new Intel Mac has been integrated iSight (except Mac...
As hinted at earlier, it has been confirmed that we will see a second generation iPod Nano at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this August. In addition to a metal housing, the Nano is expected to...
Hot off the press, Think Secret reports that at WWDC starting on August 7th, Steve Jobs will announce that iTunes will soon have movie rentals. Currently Apple has sealed the deal with such movie studios...
ArsTechnica relays the news that Apple stores have begun carrying the Parallels virtualization software. Recently, Apple even went so far as to remove mentions of Boot Camp from its advertisements. It seems like Apple is...
It's not often that I find a widget for OS X's dashboard that I want to talk about. More often than not, the widgets I find are time wasters rather than helpful or even productive...
Twttr is a unique service by Odeo that takes a stab at on-the-go socializing. You know how your messenger (whichever service you use) lets you have status/away messages? Well twttr not only lets you have...
Fellow Yahoo! intern Richard Crowley takes a look at the Mozilla XUL-based Songbird music player. I did a little mini review of Songbird several months ago, but it seems to have matured in the Mac...
For the past month I've been testing out an Invisible Shield by Shield Zone on my MacBook. Shield Zone's products are simple, protective pieces of clear film. Shield Zone makes Invisible Shields for just about...
Minic Rivera over at The Blogging Times has a nice feature on his blog where he takes prominent bloggers and asks them why they blog. In the past he has posed this question to people...
A new web application for social media users just hit the e-block. Commentful is a simple and useful service that lets social media users keep track of comments on a variety of publishing platforms. The...
A company in China has successfully reverse engineered the Skype protocol. The unnamed company has created a client that is capable of communicating on the VOIP phone solution. They plan to roll out a 100%...
After a hot tip from one of its developers, I discovered Preloadr. Preloadr fully utilizes the Flickr API to bring you unparalleled photo manipulation capabilities. The coolest part is that you don't even have to...
Thanks to Kevin, I just found out about Newshutch. Once I signed up for an account and logged in for the first time, I knew Newshutch was not like any other online RSS aggregator I...
Earlier in the month I wrote a post, SEO 101, that dealt with the basics that comprise search engine optimization. I mentioned how I learned a lot from the Pronet Advertising blog and applied what...
Over the past few weeks I have been receiving spam comments from one spammer in Abu Dhabi. The comments were not picked up by Akismet, nor did Akismet learn to recognize them as spam after...
If you've been anywhere near the blogosphere this morning, you've no doubt seen the fuss about Dell's new corporate blog, One2One. Dell litters the blog with video clips discussing their new products and services, quick...
Mozilla's browser market share keeps on rising as Firefox is the browser of choice for over 15 percent of those in the United States. Internet Explorer usage fell by a steady 2 percent, but still...
After rediscovering Pukka, the simple OS X app for del.icio.us bookmarking, on Derek's top 10 OS X apps to supplement blogging article I decided to give del.icio.us another shot. I have had a del.icio.us account...
Thanks to Anthony Deloso at The Skinny, PaulStamatiou.com readers now have a Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly Konfabulator) compatible widget. Similar to the widget I created for OS X users, Anthony's creation extracts the latest headlines...
Taking a note from the now discontinued iPod Mini, the next iteration of the popular Apple iPod Nano music player may feature a metal housing. AppleInsider discloses that Apple has been experimenting with new anodized...
With the recent release of the release candidate for Mozilla's first beta of Firefox 2.0, CyberNet Tech news has written a piece showing you how to tweak this latest Firefox release. The easy to follow...
The ZDNet Google blog has the scoop on a few new features that gmail users can expect to see. Users will gain the ability to delete all spam messages at once as well as the...
I purchased pstam.com today. Now it's easier to type in my url. I won't be changing anything around here. The primary domain will still be PaulStamatiou.com, the new domain just points to this site. So...
If you're reading this in your favorite RSS aggregator, now might be a good time to visit the site. Stemming from what appeared to be boredom, I took the liberty (and 8 hours) to "realign"...
After having spent a decent amount of time at Yahoo! so far, I've learned to avoid odd stares and confrontation by following this simple rule of thumb: Always look around before loading up Google in...
From the this-would-have-come-in-handy-last-semester department comes an awesome tip from Microsoft themselves. It shows how you can create a log file in notepad that automatically adds the time and date stamp everytime it's opened. Had I...
Every Mac user's favorite and feature-filled FTP client, Transmit, has been recently updated. Be sure to fetch the dmg for yourself. Also, Panic's newsgroups client, Unison, went through an upgrade last week. You might remember...
Someone over at the TAZ Forums has posted a stellar article for achieving a tip-top setup of the latest version of Ubuntu Linux. Similar to my Ubuntu for novices article, this post extensively details the...
Qusers, the seemingly definitive resource for all things Motorola Q, has posted a comprehensive review of the invisible shield. The shield is a high-quality scratch protector applied to the front and back of the Q....
Online auction giant eBay has started banning sellers from using Google's new Checkout payment service. EBay's justification stems from its Accepted Payments policy which states that a payment service must have a proven, reliable and...
IntelliAdmin explores a service released by Microsoft that can help your computer shutdown faster. The User Profile Hive Cleanup service discussed cleans up user profiles and therefore helps reclaim and distribute system resources once a...
Over the past month or two, I've been jumping around from feed reader to feed reader. I used to be a faithful FeedLounge user but a mixture of me getting a MacBook which will keep...
I love my traffic. I spend a good portion of my time just watching traffic pour in with my mint stats tracker. Up until now I have pretty much exhausted every avenue for gathering traffic...
It's about time somebody attempted to dethrone the Treo 650 and 700 from the top spot for smartphones. Motorola has recently unleashed their Q smartphone and at first glance it definitely seems like the Treo-killer....
9ruler Derek Punsalan has written a great post about the plugins that keep his blog running in tip-top shape. I for one learned about some very cool plugins I've never heard of before. Check it...
If you currently have a Media Temple hosting account, you are eligible to apply for a beta test for the upcoming (gs). The grid server is the new name of the Shared Server v6.0 which...
When it comes to the gadget-minded geek there are many items that are deemed as essential. Obviously a computer comes first on this list, but there are more, somewhat obscure items that they might not...
Twenty short years ago on this day I was born a very curious child in Houston. Soon after I was taking apart every electronic gadget I could get my hands on.. even the old 386...
MacNN reports that Apple actually is fixing the rampant discoloration issues present on white MacBook laptops. My laptop suffers from this issue, even after I had put an invisible shield on the palm rest. The...
Open Office version 2.0.3, Apple iTunes 6.0.5 and Microsoft IE7 Beta 3 have all been released today. The Open Office update brings speed improvements, especially for Intel Macs, along with greater file compatibilty among Microsoft...
If you use a Mac, go ahead and click the Apple icon and select Software Update. The long-awaited 10.4.7 update has recently gone live. The update includes fixes for audio in various applications, bluetooth connectivity...
Working at Yahoo! is the ultimate experience. The amazing campus, engaging activities and great people definitely made an impression on me during the past two days. Everyone I've come across at Yahoo! is eager to...
Sony will be releasing a new version of their ultra-portable Vaio U series laptop next week. In place of the standard 30GB hard drive, it will feature 16GB of solid-state storage. There had been rumors...
AJ over at Devlounge has reviewed the new version of digg that launched earlier on Monday. However, he forgot to mention what I deem the coolest feature - the ability to undigg stories. Many times...
Warner Brothers has entered a deal with YouTube-type site GUBA to offer users VOD, video-on-demand, as well as DTO, download-to-own, content. I think this is the first step towards a movie download site as Apple...
As reported by ArsTechnica, there has been a second case of a melting MagSafe connector. Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro models both use a new charging interface called MagSafe. Consisting of 5 magnetically attached pins...
Thanks to Chris, I have discovered a handy application for the popular, intelligent online radio station based around users' music interests, Pandora. An application created by IntrArts Creative Media by the name of PandoraMan lets...
It's time to fill you in on the past few days that I haven't posted here. On Friday I flew from Houston to San Jose airport where Bryan kindly picked me up and took me...
I recently discovered an application for Windows called Launchy. Similar to QuickSilver for OS X, Launchy can be activated with a simple key combination and open a prompt for easily launching applications and executing files....
Mike Arrington's TechCrunch reports that the long awaited update to the insanely popular Digg news and social bookmarking site will be coming on Monday. Furthermore Mike has scored some detailed screenshots of the new interface...
Throughout the blogosphere I'm always seeing these blogs, that while they look great, are horribly slow and overburdened. Over the past few months I have become somewhat of a website optimization specialist, bringing my own...
Opera Software's featured-filled Opera 9 browser was officially released after a long time in beta. The new browser sports unique features such as integrated BitTorrent, thumbnail previews for tabs, IRC chat and a trash can...
One minor annoyance people have with the K2 WordPress theme is that trackbacks and pingbacks are shown only as links with no supporting text from the trackback site. When it comes to having articles with...
A Georgia Tech research team paired with IBM has recently demonstrated new Silicon-Germanium transistors capable of operation at over 500GHz. That is roughly 250 times faster than the transistors found in your common cell phone....
One of the problems I have found with limiting my frontpage to only a handful of posts (for loading times purposes) is that when searching or going through the archives, everything is only shown in...
A few weeks ago I was contacted by Yahoo! through my website. At first I just thought it was another piece of spam, but out of curiousity I replied to the email. Sure enough, the...
Many people browse the web copying and pasting passwords and other personal information to their clipboards for convenience. They might have just signed up for a new service and copied the randomly created password from...
The Inquirer states that Google is working on an updated version of Google Video where users don't have a limit on upload size, opening the door for high-resolution video and the end of the pixelated...
Parallels Desktop, the leading piece of virtualization software for OS X, has finally come out of its release candidate cocoon and become a final product. Parallels, as it is commonly referred to, is an advanced...
As I noted in my review of the Flock developer preview, Flock is a revolutionary web browser built around the needs of the modern day web surfer. Many things have changed since that developer preview....
Launched today, Picasa Web Albums, seems to be Google's attempt to dismount Flickr from the photo-sharing throne. With a free account, users get a sleek online interface and 250MB storage space. Similar to Flickr's offerings,...
Everyone's favorite do-it-all web browser, Flock, has just achieved two great milestones. Along with the long-awaited release of their first beta (v0.7), Flock welcomes a new website designed by the talented Bryan Veloso of Avalonstar...
After hearing so much about BarCamp from the Flockers and others in California as well as via flickr photos, I jumped on the chance to attend one. Houston had its first BarCamp this past weekend...
While getting things settled down on my MacBook it became apparent that I did not want to rely on the calendar widget to find out the numeric date. I simply wanted to view the date...
If you've graced the pages of my flickr account lately, you will have seen two shiny new MacBooks. Yes, two. Chris, my housemate this year, opted for a black MacBook and got me to upload...
As new technologies and services progess they become a vital piece of mainstream society. Inevitably, people start to use them as verbs, with "Google" being the most common. I was sitting around the other day...
Microsoft has decided to offer Windows Vista Beta 2 (build 5384.4) to the public for free. I can only assume this is Microsoft's way of letting everyone know that they have an actual working product...
As a follow up to the MacBook post, I am now selling my Mac Mini. I figured it would be better to have one primary machine, which meant selling the Mac Mini to make way....
I have always been interested in electronics and DIY projects since I was very young. So when I saw an instructables page for the Minty Boost battery-powered USB charger, I jumped on it. Small Altoids-tin...
This June marks the beginning of the 3rd year I have owned my Dell Inspiron 300m notebook PC. Since then it has been discontinued by Dell and taken some healthy abuse from me in the...
CNET Reviews has published a quick guide to cell phone radiation. Most interesting of the review, however, is the top 10 list of cell phones with the most radiation. Oddly enough, Motorola dominates the list...
After two weeks or so of deliberation, Scrivs and team at 9rules HQ have selected 111 people to join the 9rules Network, out of the 700 that applied. Round Four was the round determined to...
There is a reason why I'm always that guy using one of the few Macs stranded away from the sea of PCs in the library. It's not because Apple's OS X is superior to Windows...
I hadn't really thought much of Yahoo's new Tech site when I first heard of it in an email from my sister that works in PR. However, after having received tremendous publicity, Yahoo! Tech caught...
If you've ever wondered what parts go into the making of a computer, ExtremeTech has an article for you. A Beginner's Guide to What Goes on Inside that PC thoroughly covers all the parts in...
After a long, hard day of fetching and editing tables, MySQL can become overburdened and create overhead. This can be almost directly compared to how defragmentation occurs on a hard drive. For example, something needs...
The night before a squirrel killed my internet connection, I had spent some time on making my site a little more tolerable when viewed in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. Over of a fifth of my...
After the closing of a case filed by Apple, a California appeals court judge has ruled that internet journalists and bloggers alike are protected by law just as traditional journalists are. Apple filed a case...
Sorry for the lack of updates and replies to emails lately. For some reason my Time Warner RoadRunner cable service at home has stopped working. I've been without internet for the past two days, with...
Flickr has come a long way since its debut in February of 2004. In fact, Flickr's traffic grew nearly 500 percent during the period between December of 2004 and 2005. There's no doubt that Flickr...
Colin Devroe has posted an excellent article about the first week with his black Apple MacBook. He dispels rumors of the glossy screen and other features of the MacBook that have since attracted negative attention....
Update: I have written a follow-up post after having used Nike+. I was also in a Nike advertisement for Nike+.
Everyone from multimedia enthusiasts to coding mavens can all appreciate extra disk space. However, not everyone has room for an extra internal hard drive in their tower or Mac. External drives are a quick and...
I have decided to roll out a new feature here on PaulStamatiou.com. Sponsored Links will be a cluster of links that sit in the sidebar and are visible on every page. I have always been...
Not even a week after they were released and reports are coming in that the Apple MacBook gets just as hot as its older brother, the MacBook Pro. Similarly, both have way too much thermal...
Bloggers, techies, professional journalists and college students all seem to share one thing in common. They love staying in-the-know. Roommates talking about the new Nintendo Wii? No problem, RSS aggregators can help you out by...
Macworld has put together a short video on YouTube that shows how to remove the RAM and hard drive in the new Apple MacBook. Apple's MacBook has been receiving a lot of attention due to...
A while back Google announced that they would be offering Gmail for hosted domains. This meant that you could route email from your personal domain name and webhost to a Gmail interface. Google began sending...
In response to rampant pirates that tweak the x86 (Intel) version of OS X's kernel to get OS X to run on ordinary PCs, Apple will no longer be offering the source code to this...
Two months ago I ordered an Intel Mac Mini and told you what I thought about it. I had purposefully opted for the cheaper 1.5GHz Core Solo model. The Core Duo Mac Mini has a...
No not the MacBook Pro, just the MacBook. This will be the iBook replacement and boy is it looking good. Thinner than the old iBook (the MacBook is 1.08 inches thin) and featuring a 13.3...
Online photo sharing web service and community Flickr has made the leap from Beta to Gamma. New features include a majorly redesigned interface, a new Organizr and a Person menu. You can see what everyone...
As reported by Linux Watch, O'Reilly publishers are starting a new trend, beta books. Dubbed "Rough Cuts", these are books that have not been fully edited or lack complete formatting. I think this is pretty...
The Shuttle project began over a year and a half ago, aiming to beautify the WordPress administration panel. With the help of Khaled Abou Alfa, Michaeil Heilemann, Chris J Davis, Joshua Sigar, Joen Asmussen, Ryan...
I may have already shown you how to boost your blog traffic, but let's go back a step. How do I even start a blog? What is involved with maintaining a blog? What do I...
While messing around on my linux box running Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger, I had the idea to add some repositories to allow the computer access to various packages and upgrades from the Dapper Drake beta....
After talking with a few people that dual-boot OS X and Windows XP through the use of Boot Camp, it appears as though there is a slight bug. If the user boots into Windows and...
Switching computers or upgrading to a new rig may have you in a flurry trying to backup your iTunes music. Luckily, Konstantinos at HiFi Blog has put together a thorough how to for accomplishing this...
Fluxiom is an innovative online storage solution aimed at the creative professional that needs to safekeep mission critical files while assuring interminable connectivity. Rather than being called online storage, Fluxiom is a digital assets manager...
Wouldn't it be nice if the gravatars on your K2 and WordPress-powered blog actually linked to the author's website instead of gravatar. For those out of the loop, gravatars are globally recognized avatars. Once a...
Similar to how Google slowly unrolled Google Talk within Gmail, users of the popular webmail service will be experiencing a new feature shortly. "Gmail Pictures" is much more akin to avatars than pictures, however. The...
The iPod accessories market has always been a fierce battleground. Hundreds of manufacturers creating the latest little trinket for you to hook onto your iPod. Only a select few iPod accessories are actually beneficial, do...
After surfing across Lifehacker's post about how to easily get a Yahoo! Mail Beta account, I decided to take it for a spin. Following those directions was easy enough and I found myself with a...
The creative geniuses at Intel have found a name for the upcoming desktop and mobile processors, the Intel code-named Conroe and Merom processors. Both will go by Core 2 Duo with Merom likely having another...
I just got back from my Computational Media final, which marks my last final this semester. This week has been hectic to say the least, but all seems well and good now. I even passed...
Google constantly amazes me, especially when I discovered just a few days ago that Google had been keeping my search history whenever I search logged in. I have been using Google's personalized ig homepage for...
Update your Firefox with the latest release from Mozilla, version 1.5.0.3. Firefox might even download the update itself and prompt you to restart the browser. This version fixes the widely discussed vulnerability that allows malicious...
If you read my recent article Boot Camp Installation Tips, you know that I currently have a dual-boot OS X and Windows XP Intel Mac setup. I generally blog in my Mac realm but I...
Check out these hilarious Apple ads that spoof the PC. My favorite is the networking one. I take it these are part of an updated ad campaign to replace the great "switch" commercials a few...
Welcome rebooters! You probably stumbled upon my site via the front page of CSS Reboot where this site is featured as one of 50 premium rebooters. My redesign for PaulStamatiou.com was supposed to come in...
Take a look at this 5 minute screencast showing you how to make a simple, AJAX-ified web application that loads images from flickr using the Ruby on Rails platform. Many new database-backed web services are...
As I don't have too much time to blog right now given all of my finals, I'm going to share a few links that I've been enjoying recently.
Wondering why one of your OS X applications seems a little sluggish on your Intel Mac? Maybe it is running through Rosetta translation and could be a PPC application. Well there is an easy way...
Yes, dead week and finals have reared their ugly and mischievous heads. This is just a little fyi for everyone about a slow down in posts for the next week or so. On campus, dead...
Apple closed their online store this morning sometime around 8am and when it was back up less than an hour later the 17" PowerBook G4 had vanished, with a shiny new 17" MacBook Pro in...
When Apple released Boot Camp, they made it easy for anyone to dual-boot their Intel Mac with OS X and Windows. A recent discovery from the people that were able to get Windows booting on...
If you have recently switched to an Intel Mac, you may have noticed that your favorite BitTorrent client, Azureus, does not work. Luckily, the Azureus wiki has a special build of the current version, 2.4.0.2,...
Hot on the heels of Part 4 comes Part 5. In Part 4 I spent a bit of time on using image maps to decrease load times and save bandwidth. I thought I would expand...
Scrivs, the coolest CEO this side of the blogosphere, has announced that May 17th, 2006 is the official date for round four submissions into the 9rules Network. If you are considering applying to join 9rules,...
Daily Tech discovered that Seagate has leaked some information about their upcoming hard drives on their website regarding the Barracuda 7200.10 line. Apparently two versions of the massive 750GB hard drive will be offered; a...
Yesterday at an IDF in Beijing, Intel released the more mobile varient of their Core architecture based mobile processor, the Core Solo. Two versions of this Ultra Low Voltage processor, the Core Solo ULV, were...
I was touching something up in my sidebar.php file on Wi-Fi in the student center and it cut-out mid-upload. I will hastily make a sidebar file right now, as I don't have any backups. =/...
I have recently surpassed 1 million hits on PaulStamatiou.com since September 12th, 2005. This blog is a bit older than that, but Sept. 12th was the first date I started using blogtopsites. I would have...
Chris has done it again with his substantial post, Vapor Phase Change Cooling. He built a vapor phase change cooling system, utilizing a mixture of propane and oil, that can bring his processor way below...
I spent a few hours tonight and turned my old Deviance theme into something I can actually release. Deviance is my name for my previous K2 mod. It is a narrow and clean single column...
I didn't think I could talk this much about K2, but over the course of my recent redesign a few things have come to mind that I'd love to share with everyone. This whole K2...
After Ben Gray had asked me a few questions about Mint and the open client mode, I decided to enable client mode on my mint installation. I am a huge proponent of using mint to...
Mozilla released a new version of Firefox today, version 1.5.0.2. While this release includes bug and security fixes as usual, the OS X version is now a Universal Binary, making it an imperative upgrade for...
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, of which I am a member, is completing the specifications for a new ethernet standard, one capable of 10Gbit/second signal speeds utilizing Category 7 cabling and a new...
I just thought I would leave you guys with this link, google.com/cl2, before I called it a night. I can definitely see myself using this more than my 30 Boxes account, which hasn't been touched...
Last night, I finally got Apple's Boot Camp to work properly and dual-boot Windows XP SP2 Professional on my Intel Mac Mini. I ran into a few problems at first so I'll go through my...
Chris Morrell has written a worthy article that shows you how to get the most out of your Firefox browser. He covers several about: config tweaks like the minimize, network, cache and download manager hacks....
I don't know what a typical college campus is like. Everything I've experienced at Georgia Tech is apparently not normal for a university lacking "tech" in the title. I've compiled a few things I've noticed...
I found a brief post on Mike Peck's blog [via theory.isthereason], that talked about installing XviD and AC3 Quicktime components to get Front Row on his Intel Mac to play an XviD encoded video. As...
Microsoft's upcoming productivity software suite, Office 2007, will bring about a change to the traditional file formats. While every version of Office prior was based off of 3 character file extensions, Office '07 will utilize...
Bryan Veloso interviewed me on his ever popular Live From The 101 podcast. We've been trying to do this for about two weeks but we could never find the time with the huge time zone...
Today Apple released a beta application called Boot Camp, which will be included as a final in OS X 10.5, Leopard. Boot Camp, simply put, lets you create a boot disc with all the proper...
On the way to class yesterday, I noticed a few tents setup on one of the busier walkways in the middle of Georgia Tech campus. It was none other than the TechKnowOverload tour, featuring several...
In the past few months I have setup and helped others install and configure WordPress blogs many times. One of the more frequent questions I get pertains to this page in the WordPress admin labeled...
After several months in preparation, Devlounge.net, a website that plans on being the best resource for web developers, has finally opened its doors to the public. Their plans seem very ambitious, with sections of the...
What you see right now is the product of several weeks of brainstorming, tinkering around in Photoshop, staying up late with SubEthaEdit and a significant amount of trial and error. I had planned to get...
Okay so first it was the Core Solo to Core Duo CPU swap that was all the rage. Now it appears as though Intel's upcoming mobile processor, codenamed Merom, works in the Intel Mac Mini...
Apple Computer has recently joined the ranks of BAPCo, the Windows benchmarking consortium. While still only speculation, Gearlog seems to think that this means Apple will now concentrate on Windows drivers to help the benchmark...
Today I will be looking at a set of iPod accessories from the so-called experts in iPod connectivity, the German company Sendstation. They specialize in small and affordable products that are all about convenience and...
A little while ago, I had mentioned that Sprint had invited me to be a member of their Ambassador program. Well today, the Samsung A920 phone had finally arrived. So what is the Ambassador program...
As hard drive storage has started to dramatically increase, now with up to 500GB on a single drive, manufacturers have had to research alternative methods of storage to yield these outcomes. Traditionally more storage meant...
One of Adobe's employees, Scott Byer, maintains an Adobe blog named Living Photoshop. Yesterday he discussed some of the reasons why there will not be any current versions of Adobe software released or patched to...
Browsing MacUpdate late last night for some universal binary goodies, I ran across a rather neat application. Bye Bye Dashboard lets you disable the dashboard, which is notorious for being a system resources hog. I...
Spotted at the CeBIT convention, Shuttle will be releasing another SFF computer, this time based off of Intel's Core architecture. This might be the Mac Mini equivalent on the PC side. Yes, I do remember...
After at least 2 years of being faithful to Mozilla's Thunderbird email client, I am switching to Apple's Mail. This might be temporary if Mozilla comes out with a universal binary soon, but Mail is...
After arriving home for spring break, I was greeted by several packages that I had ordered. I opted for an Apple Intel Mac Mini with a SuperDrive and a 1.5GHz Core Solo processor. Before you...
Andy Peatling's project, CSS Tweak, is a fantastic online tool that can optimize your CSS files. Simply provide CSS Tweak your CSS file, either by pasting (temporarily disabled currently) it or selecting it to upload...
It's finally been done. With the recent news and video of narf2006 running Windows XP on his Intel iMac, everyone was wondering when his solutions would be verified. Well today, Colin from OnMac.net, where the...
I'm not exactly sure why but my WordPress database went haywire overnight, presumably around 5am as told by FeedBurner's FeedMedic. I should have seen that coming, I had a few database hiccups yesterday and the...
With all the hype surrounding online storage services such as Box.net, Amazon has decided to get in the game with their new service S3, Simple Storage Service. Before I go any further, I must say...
A user named narf2006, a reputable Mac hacker on the WinXP on Mac forums, has been able to get Microsoft Windows XP SP2 running on his Intel iMac, as noted by ArsTechnica and his revealing...
Slightly larger than a PDA and weighing less than a pound, OQO's Model 01+ is the smallest Windows XP computer. OQO has been working on this device for several years now, but Tom's Hardware was...
Last night at the SXSW Interactive web awards, Bryan Veloso won for Best Blog of the Year for Avalonstar, beating out Shaun Inman. A bit later in the evening, 9rules won for Best Community Site...
It's a known fact that BitTorrents can be abusive on hard drives, especially when running more than a few downloads. Things are constantly being written to the hard drive, file space being allocated, file contents...
A demo of a new Linux X server architecture, Xgl, has been created by Novell, which plans to incorporate Xgl into the next version of its operating system. The demo video was distributed to show...
Right now, tons of techies are having the time of their lives at South By Southwest, a convention of sorts that brings all many people together. People like Mike Rundle, Paul Scrivens, Matthew Oliphant, Bryan...
Matt has posted WordPress 2.0.2, which is a security fix release. If you run a WP blog, update it ASAP - you don't want to wait until people figure out how to exploit the security...
Fellow tech blogger Michael Arrington has scored some exclusive screenshots of Google's upcoming AJAX-powered Calendar web application. Dubbed CL2, Google Calendar is a fairly long way from a public launch and is currently under a...
Twice a year, Intel holds the Intel Developer Forum where software and hardware developers gather to share their latest offerings and propose their plans for the future. The Spring IDF just began in San Francisco...
I'm not sure how many of you that are Mac users are aware that I have made a widget for this blog. The link has been buried somewhere in the about page, but I finally...
The guys at XtremeSystems.org, the home of hardcore modders and computer enthusiasts (they always dominate the Futuremark Hall of Fame for benchmarking), have finally proven that my prediction was correct. It is possible to purchase...
ZDNet points out that Google is planning a new online storage space, similar to what Box.net offers, as reviewed here. However, there is one key difference to note about GDrive. GDrive is said to map...
Today was the day that just about everyone that ordered a mini on the 28th received it via FedEx. Tons of picturesof the Intel Mac Mini's internals flooded the internet this morning. Shots of the...
PaulStamatiou.com is currently the 57th most favorited blog according to Technorati. Take a peek at this link. If you missed out on how to use Technorati's fairly new favorites feature, visit this previous post. You...
School work, business proposals, universally accessible storage, data backup, important documents - there are many reasons why you might want to have secure online storage. Having all of your important files online is more convenient...
BarCamp comes to Atlanta! If you live in or near Atlanta and have moderate geekiness, check out the BarCamp Atlanta wiki page. I can't really explain what BarCamp is as I have never been to...
As I talked about earlier, today was the Apple special, invite-only event. They announced the Intel Mac Mini with two options for the processor, single or dual core. The Core Duo runs at 1.67GHz while...
Most bloggers don't do this, but I'm not most bloggers. Here's what I have planned for the near future (after my CS midterm tuesday and maybe some other school obstacles) for this blog... I will...
Many of you have taken my RoundCube installation guide to heart despite some of the RoundCube alpha's problems and shortcomings. RoundCube is a revolutionary webmail client, better than anything like Squirrel Mail, featuring a very...
Flickr is everyone's favorite online photo-sharing service. It may be beta, but it has more than enough features to rival many other photo-sharing services in their final state. One of these features is groups, which...
I was hesitant about blogging about this, as seemingly everyone has already heard that Apple will be holding a special event on February 28th. I thought I would take a different stance and ask everyone...
I've setup a WordPress.com blog where I talk about personal stuff or just things I can't find a place for on a technology blog. Things like exotic cars I've seen that day will find a...
Kristin has a nice intro to using the new coComment service, that lets you track all of the comments you make on blogs. The reason I like coComment so much is that it is a...
Everyone's favorite blog tracking, ranking and tag search engine service, Technorati, has just added a new feature to their services list. Favorites lets you create a publicly viewable list of your favorite bloggers, making it...
Just today, it was reported on Secunia that an extremely critical OS X flaw has been discovered. The problem arises from the way OS X handles the __MACOSX folder in ZIP-compressed archives. This problem exists...
My good friends over at Flock HQ have updated the developer preview of their Firefox-based browser to version 0.5.11. I've talked about Flock several times in the past, including my comprehensive review. For those of...
If you are a mac user with any need for an FTP application, you have no doubt heard of Panic's Transmit. Transmit has won several awards and most recently an Apple Design Award for using...
Michael Desmond has posted a list of reasons why you should invest in Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system. As expected, most of the reasons are already present or better in the current version of...
I've been drenched with school work recently - a paper on eBooks, a VoiceXML project, a few tests, and a large C programming assignment to close off the week. I'm going to list some of...
Stuart Andrews from DevDawn.com has conducted a comprehensive interview with me. Check it out and find out some things you might not have known about your favorite blogger.
Most people haven't even received their MacBook Pro orders when Apple updated the high-end MacBook Pro specification. Now, two base models sport a 1.83GHz and 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo processors, respectively. However, there is a...
The next installment of TheUberGeeks.net's famous podcast has been released today. It might be worth checking out just because they talk about me. =D This episode features some discussion about the latest of what's hot...
AppleInsider and ThinkSecret have gathered information for what the next iPod, that would be the 6th generation for those of you keeping a tally at home. From the presumably leaking information, it will not have...
It seems like Apple has listened to people with the new 1GB iPod nanos. They have a beveled edge to prevent face scratching when laid flat on its face. This is only on the 1GB...
I'm a busy guy. My PDA helps keep me connected around the Wi-Fi drenched campus, whether it be checking my email, keeping tabs on my website or the news. I find it rather ironic that...
Now you can talk in Google Talk all within your browser. Earlier in the week Google enabled a feature allowing you to save Gtalk conversation directly to your Gmail account. Now you can instant message...
The chaps over at the New Zealand Mac Guide magazine mentioned an article of mine in a recent issue. 10 things every new mac owner should know was featured on page 19 of Mac Guide...
It looks like I've been tagged by Andrew Hamman in this little endless meme game bloggers are playing. This one's a bit simpler... the tagged people post their stats and tag three others.
Songbird, a powerful music player and manager based on the Firefox platform, was launched today. I just installed it and I must say the interface is top notch. Being an iTunes user, I immediately felt...
Nobody likes spyware, especially when it doesn't go away with traditional methods. Spyware uses precious system resources to carry out dirty system activities and decrease your computer's performance noticeably. Most of you have heard of...
All of the speculation and rumors turned out to be true. Today Apple launched a new, smaller 1GB version of the iPod Nano alongside a price-reduced Shuffle. The new Nano retails for 149 and draws...
Kevin from Theory.isthereason, has created a wiki devoted to Web 2.0. He has some great content regarding podcasts, RSS as well as links to some articles discussing the idea behind Web 2.0. What caught my...
30 Boxes, an online calendar project created by 83 Degrees, has just gone into a live beta. 30 Boxes isn't your average online calendar; it adds social networking into the mix. You can add friends...
ExtremeTech has a detailed tutorial showing you how to fix your Windows installation with the bootable Live-CD Knoppix, based on the Linux operating system. It covers partitioning, reconditioning registry settings as well as salvaging system...
Ron over at CaveMonkey50 has a great editorial talking about digg and Newsvine. Digg used to be great but right now it is just seen as a group of immature kids that flame and spam...
I mentioned earlier how I had setup an aggregator for this site utilizing Gregarius. Today I will show you how you can do the same. First off you will need a server, either locally or...
Thanks to the diligent work of Mike Rundle and crew, the newly designed 9rules homepage has been completed. It is much easier to use and find blogs/articles in topics that interest you. You may have...
Windows XP users can now have one more feature Macs have had for a long time - Expose! Otaku Software's TopDesk lets you use hot keys, mouse hotspots or floating desktop buttons to view and...
Similar to the 802.11n spec, Wireless USB (UWB, Ultra-Wideband) has been in talks for a very long time. Belkin has created one of the first wireless USB hubs, your typical four port contraption, set to...
I know I have been talking about the new Intel Macs a lot recently, but it seems as though someone over at Neosmart.net has compiled a set of instructions that might work for dual-booting XP...
I had seen Gigabyte's i-RAM when it was displayed at Computex Taiwan last year and now Gigabyte has started supplying it North American consumers. i-RAM is a PCI card that has four slots for DDR...
A known bug in a Microsoft driver that controls USB 2.0 functions in the Core Duo 945 GM chipset can quickly drain notebook battery power once a USB 2.0 device is connected. Tom's Hardware uncovered...
You have probably noticed the quick social bookmarks at the bottom of each post. I've had these around for a while now and have shown you the code to do the same in Customizing K2:...
I've found it very hard recently to get through two classes, at most, without wondering how many emails I have received (20-40/day is the norm) or if there are any new comments here. After looking...
A guy named Colin from Houston is holding a contest for someone to come up with a way to dual-boot Windows XP on an Apple MacBook Pro. Donations to the site have brought the prize...
It seems as though Darice has tagged me, so I must embark on a journey that is the list of four things. By the way, this is one of those hip new blog community activities....
Part 1 and Part 2 were swell but Part 3 has a penchant for being naughty. If this is your first time reading one of these tutorials, you should go back and read or skim...
Every once in a while, someone would ask me what feeds I subscribe to as they have the same interests as I do. No need to ask me anymore. Today I unleash Agg (taken down...
I just wanted to follow-up on my article from last week and say that the IEEE has approved the 802.11n wireless spec. This will allow for potential wireless transmission throughput of 600 megabits per second....
Windows Vienna is the codename for the operating system that comes after Microsoft's Windows Vista. I'm not yet sure why Microsoft is worrying about the OS after Vista, when Vista isn't anywhere near getting out...
So you're in the middle of History 2112 and are typing notes like crazy because your professor talks a million words per minute. Unfortunately for you there are 30 minutes left in class but your...
When I had written my Ubuntu for novices how to, one of the resources I recommended was an Ubuntu guide website. However, that website was outdated with info for Ubuntu 5.04. Another website has come...
In the hardcore computer performance and gaming community, there is an underlying test to see how good your computer is; the 3DMark benchmark. Futuremark has been making this Gamer's Benchmark for many years and it...
If you've passed by digg during the last few hours you've seen the incredibly popular OSX 10.4.3 on your PC post. From the comments it appears as though this works. Some one has even tracked...
Okay maybe Microsoft isn't out to kill Craigslist per se but their new Windows Live Expo, which is now in a closed beta test, aims to do exactly what Craigslist does only better. Microsoft describes...
Anyone that's used a Mac for even a week will have heard of a fantastic little app called Delicious Library. It lets you catalog all of your DVDs, CDs, Games, Books, whatever and keep track...
I've always wondered who all these people are that have subscribed to my feed. There's anywhere from 600 to 900 of you but I still only see comments from the same 50-odd people. Now's your...
Tickr is a simple application for Mac OS X that sits on your desktop and scrolls through the Flickr images it finds given tags you supply it. It reminds me of Slide, which never really...
Zach over at Dopamine Addict has a good K2 modification tutorial. I've covered some of the things in my tutorials, but there are some nifty things he goes over that you could find useful. For...
It seems as though Google has silently launched it's Music Search. Right now it is a no frills almost blank Google page. When you search for things you will find several categories of results: by...
I came across this article on Popular Mechanics entitled 15 New Tech Concepts You'll Need to Know In 2006. It serves as a great basic guide for emerging technologies but I wanted to add a...
If all goes well with the Joint Proposal team working on establishing 802.11n next week, we will see very promising Wi-Fi products in the near future. 802.11n marks the fourth largely used 802.11 specification, after...
Mozilla has released version 1.5 of the widely used email application, Thunderbird. Mozilla, creator of the insanely popular Firefox browser, has pioneered an automated update system, in-line spell checking and several other features into this...
I hadn't realized that AMD had introduced the last chip, the FX-60, to inhabit Socket 939 until conversation over lunch with my friend Chris Morrell. The FX line has always been AMD's high-performance, price-is-no-limit processor...
Earlier today Apple released two Macs, the MacBook Pro and iMac, that both feature Intel processors. Unlike the previous IBM Gx series of chips that couldn't feasibly run Microsoft Windows, the new Macs can actually...
The last chance to nominate your favorite blogs for the 2006 Bloggie awards is from now until 10:00 PM EST January 10th. Check out my previous Bloggies post for more info. A nomination for PaulStamatiou.com...
At MacWorld 2006, the new PowerBooks MacBooks and iMacs were released. Both are powered by Intel processors alongside DDR2 RAM and have integrated iSight cameras (new for the MacBook). Take a look at the new...
TUAW has coverage of Adobe announcement of a new program called Lightroom at MacWorld 2006. Adobe plans direct competition with Apple's image editing program Aperture that features impressive RAW image editing and an easy workplace...
Remember how I talked about Google's plans to release a software pack called Pack? Well Bryan Veloso has put together a seemingly accurate description of what Google Pack is, in the form of his ever...
Winter break is coming to an end and I'll be flying back to Atlanta tomorrow. I will be taking a much more hectic workload this semester so I'll see how that affects my post frequency....
9ruler Brian Benzinger has written an extensive review of the currently invite-only news website, Newsvine, that plans to be the next generation of how we get news. It is kind of like digg meets CNN....
I just found a great site called MacGrab that lets you enter a simple contest every 4 minutes and have the opportunity of winning two great mac applications; AppZapper and Menuet. Once you give it...
ZDNet has come up with a list of the top ten things that Apple might unveil at MacWorld. It covers everything from Intel Macs to the next version of OS X.
According to ArsTechnica, Google will launch a video download service that integrates with Google Video Search that will presumably allow for paid downloads of popular television shows, as iTunes currently offers. Google will also release...
The Inquirer talks about a new Lexar USB stick that features eInk (also referred to as ePaper) to display drive usage. This comes straight out of the I can't believe they didn't think of that...
We've been hearing about Dell planning on making a massive 30 inch LCD for a while now, but it's actually come true. Anandtech has a few pictures of the screen from the 2006 Consumer Electronics...
If you're anything like me, you just spent your last bit of cash on a wicked gaming mouse and didn't leave any money for a mouse pad. Typically you would just game without one, but...
Today I explore the whole "You don't need to defrag" situation regarding Macs. Technically, OS X is supposed to take care of everything with a journaled filesystem and system maintenance when the computer is idle,...
Macworld seems to think that we will see the launch of the first Intel based Apple notebook within a week. If that wasn't enough to get you excited, this notebook may feature a solid-state flash...
Tom's Hardware has an amazingly comprehensive BIOS guide that covers everything from the basics to hardcore tweaking. This guide rivals my old favorite BIOS optimization guide over at Adrian's Rojak Pot. For PC's, a BIOS...
The 2006 Bloggie awards are coming around soon and you have the opportunity of nominating your favorite bloggers up until January 10th (yeah, I know... not much time left). It would mean a lot to...
This guide is a follow up to my series of Azureus articles that dealt with configuring and setting up the popular BitTorrent client. Now, I will discuss how you can share any file by creating...
Western Digital plans to unveil the 3rd generation of the popular, high-performance Serial-ATA Raptor hard drive as reported by DarkVision Hardware. I personally own the 1st (single platter, 36.7GB) and 2nd (two platter, 73.4GB) generation...
David informed me about a great site that lets you easily create chicklet buttons for easy reader syndication with services like MyYahoo, Bloglines and many many more. It also lets you do the same for...
Starting tomorrow, you will see some new things around 9rules.com, the blog network and community I am affiliated with. I don't think I can say too much at this point, but all of the 9rulers...
The Howto Forge has a detailed article explaining how to setup a wireless hotspot on a LinkSys WRT54G router. You may recall from a previous post that these particular LinkSys routers are well known for...
You may have noticed a bit of text and some icons following each post (on their full page, not on the frontpage). I've implemented an easy way for readers to bookmark any of my articles...
Today we continue our journey to help you find your very own unique design for your K2 and WordPress powered blog. If you haven't read the first part, please go do that now; I'll still...
2005 is just wrapping up and it has been a great year. Notable events such as the quiet launch of this blog and my first digg to surpassing of over 350,000 hits (leave comments/vote there...
Colin from TheUberGeeks.net has a great article discussing and more importantly explaining what feeds are in a way that everyone can understand. This article is a great companion for my highly-acclaimed Getting Started with RSS...
Michael and Chris have released K2 Beta Two, the next installment of the WordPress theme that powers this blog. That being said, I am going to start the upgrade process which may be rather time...
The Mac Rumors wiki is at it again. This time they've set up a brief guide on squeezing some extra speed out of your Apple rig. Check it out here. I strongly agree with their...
With the long-awaited final version of the K2 theme for WordPress coming out before the New Year it is a good time to catch up on some tips and tricks to get your blog looking...
Intel has launched the first processor based on the 65nm core. The Pentium D 955 boasts a significantly smaller core from the current 90nm and more common 130nm cores. It supports a frontside bus speed...
Along with a new version of WordPress, WordPress.org now sports a much needed, redesigned layout.
By default, Windows XP creates an Administrator account that is usually hidden from fast user switching unless you go to Safe Mode (F8 on boot). If your computer came preinstalled with XP, this admin account...
With the major release of the widely used blog publishing platform, WordPress, very near there are some things you should know before getting rough and tumble with the new features. Aaron Brazell posted a great...
Reflection.js is a simple piece of javascript that can add some slick looking reflections to any image on your site. All you need to do is add class="reflect" to the image. If you are using...
A few people have asked me which sites I visit daily so I thought I might as well share this information with everyone else. Most of my reads are tech related and oriented so you...
Spice up your blog with some of Matt Brett's RSS icons. Replace those unsightly orange RSS or XML buttons with the increasingly official Mozilla RSS icon that Microsoft recently adopted. Matt has created a nice...
This is the one you've all been waiting for; a chance to win a domain name and a year of excellent hosting from my good friends at Media Temple. This year has been good to...
I recently found a fantastic article that listed some great ways of speeding up your Windows installation. Many of the fixes were registry edits and got a bit involved. For those people that probably shouldn't...
Charles Stroup from 123MacMini and I have created a list of 10 applications every new Mac user should download. These applications should help new Mac users get off the ground and running with OS X....
All I want for Christmas is a 20" Apple Cinema display. I know it's a lot to ask for but in my field of work it will definitely make things easier. With the extra real...
Crucial has been in the RAM industry for a long time but they have only recently started to appeal to those wanting high-performance memory, such as gamers. Crucial has entered the mainstream high-performance RAM market...
I recently stumbled on a nifty site from del.icio.us popular. lab.rails2u.com/bgmaker takes in a few parameters and can instantly create a dynamic background for use anywhere.
Everyone has visited a site from time to time that will annoyingly change the size of your browser. There's a quick solution to this problem. Copy the following code and save it as a bookmark....
This post is just to let everyone know that in a few short days I will be holding a contest of sorts. I'm not exactly sure what the contest will be yet, but I know...
ZDNet put together a great list of the top Web 2.0 moments of 2005. Check out the article.
I mentioned a while ago how Apple had released its new image editing software, Aperture.
Finals are over and I've got a plane to catch in exactly 12 hours. Now if only I could fit all of my junk in my suitcase and backpack. Airport security tomorrow should be a...
Finals began this week and my first was Calculus 3 at 8am. I had been studying nonstop since Saturday and woke up at 4am this morning to get some more studying in. However the final...
Have roommates or going to be working with your PowerBook in the library? There are several reasons why you might want to disable the startup chime that notifies you when your Mac comes to life....
Google's Gmail email service now sports a new feature for displaying RSS feeds, dubbed Web Clips. You might remember this name, as it is the same name Google Desktop uses to refer to RSS feeds....
A future version of Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird, will receive tabs as reported by ZD Net. You can check out this new feature in Thunderbird 1.6 Alpha 1 available from Myk Melez, a Thunderbird developer....
After using that new Mac of yours for a while, you might want to give it a unique feel and customizing various aspects of the operating system to your liking. The easiest method is to...
It seems like someone releases another cool use for Google Maps every week. You have likely seen the ever popular Frappr service, based off of Google Maps. After Google Released the API for their popular...
LinkSys, a popular company specializing in router and other internet devices, has always been up to spec with producing high quality routers. For the longest time, their WRT54G wireless router has sold extremely well due...
If you've glanced at my sidebar recently, some things are changing. I've added a background graphic to the sidebar headlines, but more importantly some AJAXified goodness. Click the Open/Close buttons and play around. I've been...
I've compiled a list of 10 things every first time Mac owner, particularly Mac Mini owner, should know about their new computer and operating system. This article should answer some burning questions, enlighten you about...
I recently came across a great website that allows you to easily embed Google Videos within your website. DownloadGoogleVideos.com utilizes the Google Video search engine to let you find the video you want, and gives...
I know I've been pumping out OS X tips for a while now, but I've got something for you XP readers soon enough. This quickie will take a stab at fixing OS X's built in...
I am thankful for ridiculous Black Friday sales, Thanksgiving break (I couldn't take one more Physics lecture), family, friends, finally getting some laundry done, my roommate that lets me play Mario Kart on his Nintendo...
Want to drive some traffic to your great articles that have already aged off your homepage? No worries, now you can feature articles with The Feature WordPress plugin from No One's Listening. This plugin lets...
The latest release of Sun's Java has finally been deemed good enough for OS X users. By default the JVM in OS X is J2SE 1.4.2. Wondering if an updated iTunes (to address some recent...
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Intel's upcoming Pentium Mobile chip with a codename of Yonah may very well be the first Intel processor in a Mac. AppleInsider claims the Mac Mini will likely be the first production Apple computer with...
You know that cool little loading icon on the top right in the Firefox browser? Apparently it's called a throbber and you can change the link it goes to when you click on it.
Update: Flickr officially supports embedded slideshows.
View the change log. Check out the README. Enjoy.
I'm in Chattanooga, TN attending the cre824 international web design competition and festival. The hotel Wi-Fi is insanely slow from all these cre824-ers, it feels like 1994 all over again. The convention was a blast,...
Intel has recently announced that their latest batch of Pentium 4 offerings, formerly code-named Vanderpool, features an astonishing Virtualization Technology. Not to be confused with HT, or Hyperthreading Technology, VT allows multiple operating systems to...
I wish I had not checked my email between classes. After finding out that I have been accepted into the prestigious 9rules Network, I couldn't be bothered by the math quiz I had an hour...
The widely used feed publishing service, FeedBurner, has just introduced the social-bookmarking website, Digg, into its Link Splicing options. Digg joins del.icio.us, Furl, Bloglines and My Web 2.0 for Link Splicing. FeedBurner users are given...
Everytime I open up my browser, I always find some amazing new web-application that just makes me wonder what else can be done. Riveting new programming technologies are paving the way for a more user-friendly...
Episode 22 of commandN was released today and I'm in it! If you go to the commandN page here you can view the episode. Amber talks about PaulStamatiou.com around 11 minutes, 20 seconds into the...
The PaulStamatiou.com RSS widget has reached v1.1. Updates are mainly aesthetic, however, the feed was switched to the FeedBurner feed, so load times are slightly improved. Visit the widget page here to download it. This...
There are times when I would love to have a widget or two on my desktop, for those frequent activities. I'm always looking up words in the dictionary or just spell checking blog posts before...
Heading off to college soon, or already in college? There are a few things you should know so that your PC is not the victim of harmful pranks, malicious attacks and other incidents that will...
RSS has become a valuable technology for everything from casual web users to webmasters. According to a recent Yahoo survey only 12% of internet users are aware of RSS and a mere 4% have knowingly...
I've received great news from her majesty Amber Mac that this blog will be featured on a future episode of the highly popular video podcast, commandN. CommandN is a fantastic tech and web news videocast...
By default, Apple's Safari browser has an Initial Timed Layout Delay of 1 second before any data is parsed and then rendered in the browser. Apple made that a little conservative to say the least....
That's right! Some great people at Media Temple, the LA-based super webhost, have recognized the usefulness and potential of my blog by sponsoring PaulStamatiou.com full time. I would really like to thank Demian Sellfors and...
Right now is a great time to start a blog. The powerful K2 interface with the sleek Deviance mod will guarantee you readers that do not just glance and leave. Intrigued readers will be lured...
It seems as though phpMyAdmin will have competition for the first time. TurboDbAdmin is a breakthrough web application providing online database administration utilizing a single page interface. AJAX powers TurbuDbAdmin so things you do are...
I randomly stumbled upon Joe Tan's website from a reader's blog and discovered his amazing new WordPress plugin, Flickr Post Bar. The plugin adds a bar similar to Flock's Flickr topbar and allows you to...
I am writing this a little early, but tomorrow the second issue of Particletree's amazing web development magazine, TreeHouse, will be released. This is also when the 6 issues at 15 deal ends. After tomorrow...
Microsoft's next-gen browser, Internet Explorer 7, will apparently only support well-formed XML-based RSS feeds. This may seem like a good step towards valid code usage on the net but if Microsoft's going to be the...
This one's a quick & dirty guide for the people that asked me how I created my header graphics. Header graphics mark a blog as unique and can lure a reader in from the get-go....
Many first time bloggers automatically assume that once their blog is setup and they put a few posts on it, they will get some hits and regular readers. This is quite untrue. You won't get...
The day Flickr released printing capability for photos, I selected my favorite ten photos and ordered 4 by 6 prints. I ordered them with the economy mail option which estimated an arrival date of November...
My day was totally ruined yesterday. There is about a 6 inch gap between the head of my bed frame and the wall due to the ethernet/cable jacks being right in the corner. My pillow...
I always thought 760px was a bit narrow, so I created a new, wider CSS set at 820px. Hopefully long articles will be easier to read now. Let me know what you think. I still...
I recently heard about a new webmail client from my friend Justin, who's infatuated with it. RoundCube, a "browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface," is the latest and greatest webmail client. It's...
My favorite social bookmarking and technology news website, Digg, is about to get a whole lot better. This is because some big names have invested 2.8 million dollars into Digg, which has been rapidly growing...
I changed somethings in the header, so if you are seeing two headlines you need to clear your cache so the browser can get the latest CSS file.
I tried to carve my school mascot Buzz, the Yellow Jacket, into a pumpkin I bought today. I'll let you decide if I was close or not. It was ridiculously hard considering I just had...
It's about time Flickr can print photos. This is great news, finally I can do something with some of my better photos. I know lots of people that will take Flickr up on this new...
I just started using FeedBurner for my RSS feeds, making it easier for me to keep track of everyone. If you are currently subscribing to any of my RSS feeds, please change them to the...
The Open Office Suite is an open source must have. Download the latest version here.
Ubuntu, a popular distribution of the Linux operating system, has acquired a wildly growing user base and today I have joined them. Described as being Linux for Human Beings, Ubuntu is somewhere in between Mandriva...
I recently remembered that I wasn't using the internal hard drive in my Mac Mini, rather my external firewire drive... so I'm going to go about installing a distro of Linux called Ubuntu on it....
My pc modding website, TheModWiki.org, has a folding team and we have just ranked among the top 2000 folding teams. This is out of roughly 40,000 teams. It is quite an accomplishment considering we only...
Flock is the latest open source browser, catering especially to bloggers and Web 2.0 savvy users. It is heavily based upon open source code from Mozilla's Firefox browser and was developed by a group of...
For the past three weeks Fox has dumped airings of The O.C. for a football game, a baseball game, and just tonight for no reason, showing back to back episodes of Reunion. This is a...
As the title says... go get it.
My favorite DVD ripping utility, DVD Shrink, recently got shutdown for some legal reasons. A team of developers came up with an open source solution to replace DVD Shrink and called it ShrinkTo5. Their name...
Apple released updated PowerBooks, PowerMacs, and a new photo editing program called Aperture.
Fall break is just about over. I'll be heading back to Atlanta tomorrow on a noon flight. Hopefully, my cell phone alarm will be loud enough to wake me up. As I'm writing this, in...
I was cleaning out my laptop and getting rid of some junk when I found an old batch file I had written to repair LAN connections. It works great, but only releases/renews the IP. Just...
I just found a long awaited Konfabulator widget for Mint. It is slightly different, with rounded corners, and a Mint leaf instead of the logo, but it's just as great. Enjoy!
I just received this email after posting something to the Flock Beta2 mailing list. If I get it tonight, you can sure expect a review very soon. :-)
Note: Please consider setting up a Tor server to donate bandwidth to the network.
Tomorrow begins a four day fall break for students at Georgia Tech and I'll be heading off to Washington, D.C. to visit my sister. Of course, I'll have my laptop but don't expect too many...
I've really come to appreciate the scalability and extreme precision that Mr. Inman's Mint deals, especially after receiving a major increase in visitors after having several of my articles on Digg. Mint has become a...
I've been featured on the front of Hack A Day today in their hackaday links. If anyone else is a fan of hackaday it's definitely worth a visit. I recommend checking it out if you...
After arriving back to the room from Physics, I was delighted to discover that Apple released an updated iMac G5 with an integrated iSight as well as a new media-centeresque app called FrontRow, a new...
when Plextor decided to make a slot loading 16x DVD+/-RW drive? The only thing that would sweeten the deal would be a SATA version. Up until now the only company that made a decent slot...
Update: They found the bomber... read below. Apparently this morning around 9am, 3 bombs were found in the dumpsters near my old dormitory, Glenn Hall. I heard from a friend that lives in Glenn that...
Update: I have written a third article for this series. You can find it here.
If you've got nothing better to do today, I highly suggest checking out the RedBull AirRace. Basically, it is an aerobatic flying contest over the San Francisco Bay. There are several inflated pylons that the...
Firefox Beta 2 was released by Mozilla today. Go get your copy now. Here's a list of the latest features and bug fixes for this version.
Google has just released an rss reader. It is available at Google.com/reader. I have just started playing around with it and it seems very promising. I love the layout. It allows for you to click...
Earlier this evening an article I had written about configuring the Azureus bittorrent client was posted on the frontpage of LifeHacker.com. A few minutes later I found hits coming in from Digg. Less than 20...
For those of you that haven't been online in a few months, the buzzworthy Flock browser is coming soon. While it is going to be a challenger for Mozilla's Firefox browser, it will attract a...
I have always been faithful to my favorite K2 WordPress theme since alpha, but I have just discovered a very promising new theme. Squible is a budding new WordPress theme that is very heavily based...
I recently stumbled upon a great member of the 9rules blog network, ParticleTree. They have a great online publication called TreeHouse, covering all aspects of the web development community and more. The first issue is...
Today is the day I've been waiting for. Last month Georgia Tech students were informed that today we would get email aliases that would forward email to our monotonous, boring email addresses that are in...
Update: I've written a followup article to answer all the questions I've received.
A long time ago I applied to be included in a beta program for Yahoo's response to Google AdSense. I received an email today stating that I was accepted in to the Yahoo! Publisher Network...
I just watched the latest Top Gear DVD, Revved Up. Top Gear, a show on BBC2, is the most amazing car show. Since I'm in America I can't watch it on tv so everything I've...
Update: A new version is out. Keep up to date via this page.
Google has secretly invited 400 big names in the tech community to attend a special meeting. Named "Google Zeitgeist '05: The Google Partner Forum," attendees must sign a non-disclosure agreement form so whatever Google tells...
On a late evening trip to the grocery store with Dan for some necessities, I spotted a BMW Z8 valet parked in front of some fancy restaurant. And the next sighting definitely warrants a mention....
Gigabyte, a leading Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer, has just released a motherboard with 4 PCIe x16 slots that each support x8 bandwidth. The Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI-Quad Royal motherboard allows for an insane computer configuration with 4 Nvidia...
I found a great write up on how to integrate PunBB forum software with the K2 WordPress theme that I am currently using. I am not too sure if this blog needs forums, but it...
Google's Video search engine is now active. Their flash video player is online and can play many videos in decent quality with excellent load time. Check out a clip of the BBC's great car show,...
I've recently acquired a WordPress.com "Golden Ticket." WordPress.com is, to the best of my knowledge, the first free WordPress powered blogging solution. It is currently only a beta, open to a small number of users,...
I've been reading a web usability book, so you will notice many, small user-friendly website revisions as I try to improve this blog.
Hurricane Rita has just been declared a category 5 hurricane and is headed for my hometown, Houston, TX. From what I've been tracking it should make landfall by Friday evening to Friday night. The residents...
I just finished up Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability and it's a great read for anyone interested in tweaking their website to its fullest potential. Krug goes...
The Yahoo! Mail Beta was released earlier this week to a select group of users. The screenshots are proving very convincing that Yahoo! may have Google by the balls. It seems as though the interface,...
September 19th is the official international talk like a pirate day.
There's a great article on Time discussing how to get started in the ever popular blogging industry. It describes the basics of blogging and where to go if you want to get started.
I found a small article on MacVroom.com that shows a great way to give your new Nano a home. The mod involves stitching up a chamois used for cleaning LCDs allowing your Nano to slip...
CNN reports that VW's latest Bugatti venture, a 1,001HP W16 4 Turbo monster of a car has gone from drawing boards to reality. I have been tracking this car for several years now and it's...
My friend and neighbor from last year in Glenn Hall, Chris Morrell, invited me to come along to a track day at Road Atlanta, a race track about 45 miles out. His dad regularly attends...
The Camino browser for Mac has reached 1.0 Alpha 1. You can get it here.
I have been playing around with a feature in K2 which allows for me to create multiple CSS files for me to change the appearance of the blog and choose between styles. I have been...
A writer over at eWeek.com compares OS X to many other Unix based desktops and declares Mac the best.
Google has just released a new search engine tool, this time for specifically searching blogs, an area of the online market that Yahoo! is quickly pioneering. Google Blog Search is still in its Beta and...
After my Calc3 quiz today, which I finished first in the class, I stopped by the registrar in Tech Tower to pick up a "Request For Change of Academic Major, Minor, Classification" form. I then...
I read this article on ArsTechnica a few days ago but just now thought about posting it. They take the new iPod Nano through a crazy string of stress tests from dropping it out of...
My favorite piece of cd/dvd burning software will soon be updated. Nero has a statement on their website regarding the release of Nero 7 Ultra Edition sometime this October. Even though Nero doesn't run on...
I've recently discovered and been interested in taking up a major in Computational Media rather than what I am currently in, Computer Engineering. From the computer engineering classes I've taken thus far I am finding...
Sorry for the downtime today folks. Apparently there was a major power outage in Los Angeles, where my hosting company, MediaTemple, is located. However, they seemed to have recovered quickly. To my knowledge the power...
I stopped by the Apple store in Lenox Mall today to look at Nano's. Surprisingly they were in full stock so I purchased a white 4GB one. I snapped some pics... enjoy!
This Japanese website shows many pictures of the disassembly of Apple's new iPod Nano. The Nano boasts a 1.5" color lcd screen and 2 & 4GB of flash memory all in a 0.27" thin package....
Someone has discovered a way to alter the image files that control the appearance of the iTunes 5 user interface. You can read the article here.
Mozilla just released the first beta of its next version of Firefox. Enjoy!
After getting rid of some initial server setup issues, I was able to get Shaun Inman's amazing stats monitoring web application, Mint. It lets me keep a keen eye on my visitors, what time they...
I have just switched over to (mt)'s server so please be patient for the next few days until I can restore all the databases, etc. I am also coping with a hard drive failure, so...
