The web is so active nowadays, RSS, CSS, Jaiku, Facebook, Vox, Myspace, AIM, Y! Messenger, MSN Messenger, Skype, Pownce, Digg, Delicious, and more.
The originals are still the best though, Craigslist, AIM and Plain old email work great in my humble opinion.
Well, I’ve had the dream device for just under a week and I love it.
According to the Guardian, Vodafone found Apple’s Demands too much for them to get in Bed with the ever growing Apple.
It seems that the iPhone will launch in Europe in November, but with O2 as a partner in the UK, Orange as a partner in France, and T-Mobile as a partner in Germany.
The recent transformation of computers (specifically Macs) enable us to store our every thought, every speech and our travel and family videos for sharing with the world and also for posterity, sorting these and backing these up are the biggest hurdles to making this a worthwhile activity.
Always remember to Backup everything! And Publish and be damned!
Somebody called Sarcastic Gamer has redubbed the audio on Microsofts Promo Video into this hilarious spoof video, Funny!
RSS is the greatest thing to come from the interweb since email, this tutorial tells you a lot more about RSS, but what I’m writing about here is Vienna.
Vienna is a great RSS feed reader or ‘Aggregator’ for Mac OS X, it’s got a clean UI, supports RSS and Atom, a Built in browser, supports smart folders, folder groups, import and export, scheduled refresh, flagged articles, reading panes, styles, unified layout, article filtering, blogging integration, condensed layout, whew!
The thing is, I’ve got thirty RSS feeds subscribbed to in Vienna on my MacBook, but my Power Mac’s Vienna has only 10 feeds, so today we’re learning how to get the same rss feeds in both.
Vienna has export. so we can simply export the feeds from thhe MacBook and import them to the Power Mac, there will be one missing function and that is syncing, a great article on macsimum news points out how syncing between RSS readers can occur, the caveat: you must use NetNewsWire which then uses .Mac to keep your feeds synced across computers;
“The only thing missing from Vienna is syncing, and that’s not a major problem for me anymore. I used to use NetNewsWire and it was able to use my .mac account to sync my feeds between my 12-inch PowerBook and my iMac at the office. That meant I didn’t have to sort entries twice. But the syncing was erratic at times and when I got my 17-inch MacBook Pro, I was able to use just one computer to read my feeds and Vienna fits the bill quite nicely.”
Read the rest of this article entitled Taking Advantage of RSS here
For me, I’ll export my feeds from the Macbook and import them to the Pwer Mac and that should work fine.
Its the 26th of May, less than a month away from the summer solstice and it feels like winter is coming! A beautiful day for walking around in long pants, a scarf and sipping on a large coffee from the wonderful coffeefool.com or your local starbucks.
My MacBook is spinning its fans like crazy at the moment, why? I’m not sure… but maybe it’s second life running that is causing the fans to spin like wild, sure enough I just pulled up Activity Monitor and Second Life was using 101% of my cpu, look:
I’ve been reading and learning about Online communities today, World of Warcraft, Second Life, FaceBook, Orkut, Flickr, Last.fm, Myspace, Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes etc.
What are you on?
Last weekend at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in California was the 2nd Annual Maker Faire, it was an incredible array of art, robots, craft and geekery. I loved it and have CameraGirl to thank for the tip off! Pogo came along on Sunday and I recorded quite a lot of it on DV, so today I’ve edited my favorite part of the faire for your viewing pleasure, you should find my video of the Tesla coil demmonstration which doesn’t do the coil justice as the ffeling when you’re standing next to one of these is INCREDIBLE.
Bring a lightbulb with you (AC only) and if you’re near when this is going off the lightbulb will light in your hand!
Wow, Nine days since my last post! That explains why a google search for “Brendan McKenna” has buried this awesome blog below a whole lot of other nonsense that has not very much to do with me.
So whats been happening? I’ve been moving into my new place at Haight Street in San Francisco, I’ve rearranged the room for better feng shui and given Lola the cat her own space (though she seems to like the space beside me for unknown reasons…)
I’ve bought a great new iSight webcam for my Mac, I’ve taken Lola to the Vet to get her check up, and I spent the weekend upgrading Macs.
Time has just been zipping by and writing a blog has just been tough to do, I think I may need an assistant.
Email me for more news from the last week as there’s tons. I’m just rushing out at the moment and can’t type a thousand word piece.
Song of the day? Complicated!
Ben and I discussed Apple upgrading at the Genius Bar today. Apple sells great computers and gives the best service and support at their Genius Bar and more recently their Creative Bar.
Alongside the great comfort that the Genius Bar provides, there is the fact that despite their great skills in assembling and dissassembling Apple Hardware, they won’t perfrom upgrades for anybody, so that allows a thriving community of Mac evangelists like me to perform Ram upgrades, Hard Drive Upgrades, Software Upgrades and even Optical Drive upgrades.
San Francisco is the home of Apple and so many people here use Macs that it’s proving to be a great business, providing expertise to Mac users. I’ve had a full week and with my outstanding Apple Portable Certification this morning, it looks like I’ll be busier and busier as time goes on. Thanks to all my clients for getting in touch this week and I look forward to more collaborations in the future!
I’ve set up http://www.auburncom.com for my San Francisco Apple Care Website, I hope you like it!
Mother Night
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