Category Goin’ to Town

Lifestream plugins

I’ve been trying out four different lifestream plugins and wanted to offer a review of them. The four I tried are SimpleLife, RSS Stream, Lifestream Manager, and Actionstream. The picture below is how each showed up in a page created…

New look for Notes

I’ve switched to a newWordPresstheme called Wp-Poloroid byAdiiafter much tweaking. I think I’m going to really enjoy using it for the next several months. I loved the Grid-Focus theme I was using byDerek Punsalan,but like all designers, I was ready…

Lifestreaming…

It’s going to be the big net buzzword of 2008, I predict. Lifestream. Ooooooo. Say it again. “Lifestream.” Sends chills down your mouse, doesn’t it? Let me describe this for you if the concept isn’t familiar to you. In today’s…

Apple and video gaming

I said when the Mac Mini’s were first introduced that Apple should convert the Mini to being a video gaming system. The power, portability and form factor were stunning and had wonderful potential for that. We never saw it come…

iPhone SDK event and implications

In the concluding remarks of Apple’s SDK event/announcement today for the iPhone, venture capitalist John Doerr introduced Steve Jobs as “supreme commander of the rebels”. Doerr will be providing funding for new startup companies who wish to develop for the…

Redesign itch

I’m getting the itch for a blog overhaul, and I wanted to get my readers’ input on what they enjoy most and what they’d like to see more of. It’s not just a graphic redesign, but I’m considering content and…

Jailbreak Saga 2.0

This actually could have been 3.0, but for the sake of friendship, I won’t discuss here a frustrating, wasted day trying to jailbreak a friend’s iPhone before I found out that you couldn‘t jailbreak an iPhone that came “out of…