Archive for January, 2008

The folks at Download.com introduced me to Launchy. It’s a cool little app for launching things fast. IN this Quick Tip, I show you how to launch directories.

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Man these were fun to do. Bruce and Allan at the Digibarn are great folks and have an incredible collection of comuter history. This installment tells how the Sol-20 terminal computer started the Mac-PC war we still endure today. (p.s. this post written on a Mac running Windows).

Daniel Kottke invented a portable Apple music player a lot longer ago than you might guess.

Get some secret test info about what your iPhone is up to. Stuff techs use when diagnosing network issues.

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Now that you can move icons around on the iPhone main screen, how do you do it?

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Make podcasts a little easier to get to in the iPhone.

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Here’s how to use the new web clips on the iPhone

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Chris the podcaster gave the opportunity to chat about Barcelona on his excellent Amateur Traveler podcast. We had a wide-ranging dicussion about architecture, getting around in Spanish and more. Take a listen and subscribe if you like travel!

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This is the stuff that really sucked this year.

Had a good time as part of the Loop on Attack of the Show this afternoon. Had a great discussion with Kevin, one of the hosts of Attack of the Show and Catherine Holahan from Business Week.