Jason says that the most interesting announcement from Apple today was the inclusion of a calendar server based on iCal. As Sandy points out in Jason’s comments, Apple will also make the code available under the Open Source Apache 2.0 license. While there have been other attempts to make group calendaring for those of us […]
If like me or because of me, you’ve installed Thunderbird as your email client, you may have ignored some of the useful extensions that other users have written for the program. Below, are six extensions I recommend you install to make your email client of choice a little bit better and a lot more useful.
Tuesday, June 20th and our fourth day in Frankfurt. We slept in more so than usual, the previous day on the Mainz river had worn us out. We decided to take it a little easier, and spent the afternoon walking around the Romer looking through all the touristy shops for souvenirs to bring home. For
Finally got frustrated that despite the obvious settings, Thunderbird was not using Firefox when I click on a link in an email on my Debian desktop. Instead it chose to launch Epiphany, despite the fact that I’d set Firefox as my browser under Gnome -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications. If you’re running into the same
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Lots of good numbers in today’s reuters story about Apple profits. I want to focus your brian on the fact that Apple;s share of the US notebook market had "doubled to 12 percent" in the last half of 2005. This means that 1 in 9 new laptops out there is not running Windows. More importantly,
Yahoo music is selling a music file as a plain vanilla MP3 file with no DRM. Could this position them to compete against iTunes effectively? Only if music available as a protected AAC file on iTunes is also purchasable as a plain MP3 file on Yahoo! Music. From slashdot. The rationale is on the Yahoo!
For MST3K fans, Mike Nelson launched Rifftrax where you can purchase commentary tracks for movies, currently featuring Road House. Just download the MP3 track and play during the movie. Then just cutout a silohoutte on black construction paper and tape to the bottom of your tv screen and enjoy! Do you feel that some of
From TivoBlog, news that Series 3 TiVo’s are currently in beta testing and will be released ssoon. These will be the first units to include a CableCARD decoders (so that you can record digital content bypassing your cable provider’s set top box) and HD. I recall reading that CAbleCARD won’t work with satellite dishes, so
High Points Christian Gomez has a knack for being in the right spot to knock in the garbage goals. Dobuly good as he’s on my MLS fantasy roster. Brian Carroll’s gets a goal from distance. He tries that shot once or twice a game and United fans must be happy he kept this one low
If you’ve upgraded Rhythmbox to version 0.9.5 and all of a sudden, your iPod doesn’t appear in your list of music sources, you have to enable the iPod support plugin. In the Edit menu, select Plugins… and check iPod Support. Make sure your iPod is not connected and mounted at the time, as that might