Archive for January, 2008

CNET Quick Tips: Launch folders fast

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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Tales of Silicon Valley: Sol-20

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).

The Sol-20 Terminal Computer

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Tales of Silicon Valley: iPod’s Grandpa

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

iPod’s Grandpa

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CNET Quick Tips: Field Test fun

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

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CNET Quick Tips: Manage your iPhone desktop

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

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CNET Quick tips: Faster iPhone podcast access

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

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Quick Tips: Save websites to iPhone desktop

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

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Amateur Traveler Podcast – Barcelona

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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CNET Top 5: Worst downloads of 2007

This is the stuff that really sucked this year.

Top 5 Worst Downloads of 2007

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Talkin’ metered bandwidth on G4

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.

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