For the second time this year, my iMac HD died. OK, to be fair this time it’s an external drive. Anyway, I really like and have always like Apple’s software but their hardware seems to be…well, let’s just say that it doesn’t strike me as sturdy. So, I wandered by the local Fry’s store yesterday and took a few notes. [...]

.twitterbox { border:1px dotted black; padding:4px; margin:0px 0px 4px 0px; } If you are drowning in Twitter updates or simply missed a few of my Tweets, here is a list of what I consider worth reading this week. By that, I mean that less interesting, personal and topical tweets are not in this list. This list will be published every [...]

Well, the title pretty much says it all: v1.3 is out and it’s an evolutionary release. Bug fixes – lots of ‘em Usability improvements, such as text overflow indicator Support for the awesome Present.ly Twitter-compatible protocol Get it while it’s hot! (If you are confused as to where to get it, all you need is to go to http://twitterified.com, log [...]

Winners: ribbit Innovative Technology tubemogul Video weardrobe Social Network popcuts Music High hopes: moontoast Very nice concept for remote learning. zoomorama Very useful technology. klout Great concept but there are concerns over cost. Neutral: spawn labs echodio Impressive technology but confusion regarding their business model. gigotron Cool app but suffers competition from turn2live mugasha Lukewarm: otherinbox Another inbox? Why? Does [...]

I should be able to release this new client tomorrow or day after tomorrow. I am currently battling a couple bugs with beta support for Present.ly: Time zone discrepancy: all posts appear as seven hours behind Avatars are too big! var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/presently.com\/"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://nexus.zteo.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “y”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL25leHVzLnp0ZW8uY29tL2Jsb2cvMjAwOS8wMy8xNi90d2l0dGVyaWZpZWQtY2xpZW50LXYxMy1hbG1vc3QtcmVhZHkvPHdwdGI%2BVHdpdHRlcmlmaWVkIENsaWVudCB2MS4zIEFsbW9zdCBSZWFkeTx3cHRiPmh0dHA6Ly9uZXh1cy56dGVvLmNvbTx3cHRiPlRoZSBOZXh1cw%3D%3D”;

For all the poor saps who are not able to attend SXSW this year ( including me this time, no more smug scoffing at all the “non-SXSW jealous masses” ) here is a list I compiled of people who were nice enough to put online transcripts of the panels they’ve attended so far. In some cases they may have blogged [...]

Sajax is a ‘managed’ AJAX framework that was created by the fine folks at Modern Method a few years ago. What’s so great about it is the seamless communication between your back-end and the web page itself: you write your PHP code, tell Sajax which functions to export and they are now accessible from Javascript. For instance — from the [...]