iPhone Search

My friend Michael Tsai has created a simple search page for iPhone users. You can search Amazon, IMDB, Netflix, and Wikipedia all from a single page. Pull this up in Mobile Safari on your iPhone, then add it to your home screen, and you're good to go the next time you need to find a book or settle a historical argument. Tags: amazon, imdb, netflix, iphone, search, wikipedia View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Cruz - A Social Browser for Mac OS X Leopard

Todd Ditchendorf, the developer of Fluid, has entered the web browsing space with Cruz. Featuring an open plug-in architecture, global keyboard shortcuts, sidebar windows, session restore, TinyURL link creation, and automatic software updates, Cruz looks like an interesting addition to the browser arena. I've been playing with Cruz for a couple of days, and it seems fairly stable for the little web browsing I've thrown at it. I did create a right-side sidebar for Hahlo, the excellent Twitter web app optimized for the iPhone. It's been an interesting and fun experiment so far, and I encourage Mac users to check Cruz out. Tags: web app, web browser

How To: 13 Step Method For Buying A Car While Controlling The Sale And The Price

Title is pretty self-explanatory. The advice at the end regarding used cars is dead on. My next door neighbor growing up was a mechanic, with his own shop, and my dad had him look at my first car, and a couple of others he'd picked out. (My dad has a knack for finding great used cars.) It's never a bad idea to have a mechanic not affiliated with a dealership/brand, and most importantly, one you can trust, in your contact list. Tags: automobile, car, consumer, mechanic, shopping View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Macworld | Mac 911 | Etiquette and the BCC field

"An email message's To field is not a plaything. Be respectful of others' addresses by putting the BCC field to good use." I know several people who need to read this article. Unfortunately, I'm fairly certain none of them read my blog, or read Macworld, so they won't see this... Tags: e-mail, etiquette

Macworld | Mac 911 | More on etiquette and email

"Huh, it seems that the subject of etiquette and email has struck a chord with our readers. Here's more helpful advice to pass along to the email unwise." There's a mention in this piece about chain e-mails. Note that I never respond to or forward chain e-mails, so you can just leave me out of those, k? Tags: e-mail, etiquette</a

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Pro-abortion - The Curt Jester "Either dismembering a child in the womb is an acceptable moral act or it isn't. If you think it is then you are pro-abortion and should admit it." Jeff Miller has a nice little piece on the nuances of language in the abortion debate. Tags: abortion, baby, child, children, language, politics Rands In Repose: FriendDA "The following morning, if I’m still chewing on the bright idea, I start to worry because the logical next step is to pitch a friend. The rule here is: all ideas improve as a function of the number of eyeballs that see them. The troubling converse rule is: as soon as your idea gets out in the wild, it’s no longer yours." Rands' idea is that of a Non-Disclosure Agreement for friends, only not legally binding like a real NDA. Tags: friends, nda FriendDA -- Slightly more than a hearty handshake The official document. Tags: friends, nda 21 Most Used Fonts By Professional Designers | instantShift Not surprisingly, Helvetica tops the list. I was pleased to see Futura in the top ten. I'm a big fan of Futura Bold. Tags: design, font, typeface, typography blackr "blackr is a bookmarklet you can put in your browser's bookmarks bar. Later, when you are on a photo page or one of the “All sizes” pages on flickr, you can click the bookmarklet and it will hide everything on the page behind a soothing black canvas except for the photo. All that remains is the picture." Tags: flickr, photo, photography 10 ways to Simplify Your Life and Save Money ~ Frugal, Freebies and Deals Title pretty much says it. Tags: finance, money View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Domainr "There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond—Domainr helps you explore them all." For instance, if you type "retrophisch", you'll see the top search item returned, "retrophis.ch" is already taken. Tags: domain, search, web site View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Not Art. Gospel. at The Plow "Not Art. Gospel. is an artistic view of each topic on the Sermon on the Mount. Some amazing doors have been opened, and some great conversations have started from this. But what is most important is that the words of Jesus are being discussed. We want to create art that will lead to God, and we pray that this project will be for His glory." There is some really nice stuff here. Tags: art, bible, god, jesus, love Terminal Tip: Add scroll arrows to both ends of scroll bar - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) If you don't mind getting your hands dirty on the command line, the title pretty much says it all. Tags: command line, interface, mac, terminal View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Umbrella Today? Simple way to find out whether you'll need to carry an umbrella with you for the day or not. Type in your zip code, get a simple answer. You can also type in your mobile phone number and receive text messages at a time you determine each day telling you whether or not you'll need your umbrella... Tags: weather ProfileMenu "This is a simple little application which places a ColorSync menu in your menu bar that will allow you to switch between display profiles, see how old they are, reset your video card's gamma LUT, and clear out ColorSync's internal profile cache when it starts acting up. Useful for troubleshooting, evaluating calibration packages, and for those times when you just want to change white points on a whim." Tags: color, color management, colorsync, mac Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie - Health & Family - Kentucky.com The title is pretty self-explanatory. Pretty impressive. Tags: art, sharpie New Buzz on Honey | ScienCentral | Science Videos | Science News "The next time you’ve got a sinus infection, that honey in your tea might do more than just soothe your cough, says a recent study done by the University of Ottawa. Researchers found that two types of honey are effective at killing bacteria that cause sinusitis and other infections." Tags: food, health, illness View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

iPhone Steals Lead Over Kindle - Forbes.com "Free app Stanza has more people reading books on iPhones than on Amazon's Kindle e-reader." Tags: amazon, books, ebooks, iphone, kindle, reading View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

SmartSleep "[A] preference pane that dynamically sets the sleep state of your machine. It’s a successor to Hibernate.prefPane." Tags: hibernate, mac, macbook, macbook pro, prefpane, software, sleep View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Brunton Vapor™ AF All Fuel Expedition Stove Runs on pretty much any liquid fuel there is: butane, diesel #1, kerosene, auto gasoline, aviation gas, white gas, and more. Tags: camping, preparedness, stove, survival View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Fly tshirt Tshirt - PleaseDressMe I can think of several teenagers who would wear this shirt... Tags: fun, t-shirt The New York Times > Opinion > Image > Op-Art "Statler & Waldorf come down from their balcony to agree to disagree about why watch the presidential debate." They accurately sum up my feelings on the matter. Tags: muppets, politics, opinion View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Canon Digital Learning Center - Sample Video: EOS 5D Mark II "REVERIE, an independently-produced video by Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet. This video was shot with a pre-production Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR. The files used to create this video were not manipulated in any way, only re-compressed for ¼ resolution display on our website." Pretty amazing for a $2,700 camera with the primary purpose of shooting photographs. Tags: camera, canon, 5d mark ii, photography, video Vincent Laforet : photos : Reverie - Behind The Scenes- powered by SmugMug "Behind the scenes footage of Reverie the film by Vincent Laforet." Tags: camera, canon, 5d mark ii, photography, video Helvetica and Alternatives to Helvetica | The FontFeed You can certainly skip this one if you're not a type nerd. My favorite of the alternative bunch is FF Schulbuch. Tags: font, helvetica, typeface, typography Leslie Carbone: Ten Conservative Concerns with the Treasury Bailout The House Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative Representatives, yesterday issued a list of "Ten Conservative Concerns" with the Bush bail-out. Tags: conservative, politics, republican, finance, money PhotoBook - Caffeinated Cocoa "PhotoBook is a Facebook photo browser for Mac. It makes it easy and fun to manage, share, and view your friends' Facebook photos in one intuitive interface." You can also import single photos or entire albums into iPhoto with one click. Handy for capturing those images of yourself others have taken. Tags: facebook, mac, photo, photography, software View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Subterranean Press » Blog Archive » A Brand New Short Story by John Scalzi What might it look like if super heroes really existed in our publicity-minded, sue-happy society? This short story by John Scalzi nails it pretty well. Tags: fiction, sf, science fiction, writing View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | New Hitchhiker's author announced "Children's author Eoin Colfer is commissioned to write a sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series." Tags: author, books, science fiction, sf, writing PMSBuddy.com - The free online PMS reminder "PMSBuddy.com is a free service created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, daughter, or any other women in your life are closing in on 'that time of the month' - when things can get intense for what may seem to be no reason at all." Tags: web site View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA) » 1933-2008 Mac pundit Andy Ihnatko eulogies his mother on her recent passing after a nearly year-long battle with cancer. Grab some tissues. Tags: family, love, mom View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Ironic Sans: In a political campaign far, far away... Love the "A New Hope" poster. I would've already bought one if not for the fact that Lucasfilm is such a corporate copyright nazi that they don't let fans make a few bucks off of brilliant stuff like this. Tags: fun, parody, politics, star wars View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? Um....yeah. Like we'd ever see any other answer. Tags: fun, science .- THE CHANGERING Obama 2008 - Home -. My friend Tiffany accurately summed this up in her tweet where I saw this link: "I bet this idea made a lot more sense while the pot was still being smoked." Tags: meaningless symbolism, politics, stupidity MoreCowbell.dj Upload a MP3. Add more cowbell to the song. Oh dear God. Tags: fun, music View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Diamond Insider: A Mervis Blog » Tell Us Your Stories » We Interview Tom Bridge of WeLoveDC. Because We Also Love DC. My friend Tom is interviewed about his relationship, proposal, and marriage to my friend Tiffany. I'm still pleased to have been somewhat on the inside track regarding Tom's purchasing the ring, planning the proposal, etc. Politely ignore that the last two paragraphs of the post are a none-too-thinly veiled advertisement for the blog's corporate parent. Tags: friends, love, marriage DiscCloud - Home "With DiscCloud, you can transform a PC, Workstation, or other x86 based machine into a powerful Leopard Desktop Server. Once your desktop is in the DiscCloud, you can scale and manage it with VMware on standard x86 servers." Not that I plan on doing anything like this, I just found it intriguing. Tags: cloud computing, leopard, mac, virtual machine Police Get Geeky with Twitter | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration "Police in Scottsdale, Arizona are using the micro blogging service to send out alerts on pertinent town information such as road closings, traffic problems, power outages and severe weather warnings." Tags: police, twitter View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

(New) HD TiVo Coming to DirecTV! Pretty excited, technology-wise. I believe this answers our question of whether to stay with DirecTV or move to Verizon FiOS TV when we're ready to step up to HD. We love our TiVo... Tags: directv, hd, fios, tivo, tv View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia

Finishing Well: Strange responses to "pain"
Great piece from my friend Mike. "We will do whatever is needed to keep from feeling pain in the moment. It doesn't really matter to us whether the solution has actually changed anything, but in the moment we 'feel' better. Our whole culture has done that in our response to God. [...] But we do....we will do whatever it takes to 'be happy' and avoid pain in the moment. We divorce our mates to 'be happy.' We hurt others so we can 'be happy.' We make a big change to get a little result in the moment so we feel like we have solved our problem without really changing anything at all. We have yet to resolve the problem, but we feel better."
Tags: god, pain The Tshirt and Tee Search Engine - PleaseDressMe
Pretty nifty. I discovered a new Star Wars t-shirt while playing around with it.
Tags: search, t-shirt The curse word 'Battlestar Galactica' created - CNN.com
Humorous look at the fake curse word "frak". Yes, it's intended as a replacement for exactly the word you're thinking of. I had no idea Glen Larson had coined it during the original Galactica series I watched religiously as a boy. I did, however, remember "feldergarb".
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