Mac OS X only: AppleScripter John Maisey offers an iCal utility that deletes duplicate events in iCal calendars. If one too many sync operations left your calendars with multiple instances of the…
December 2007
Monthly Archive
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Your Biggest New Year’s Resolution? [Ask The Readers]
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Lose weight. Save money. Quit smoking. Get fit. Rule the world. Is this what your New Year’s resolution list looks like? (It did, for many of you, last year.) We spend all day yapping about…
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Get Preemptive Search on Your Phone with Boopsie [Mobile Webapps]
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Having web access on your cell phone can be convenient, but only if it doesn’t take you 2 minutes to navigate to Wikipedia and type in “Auld Lang Syne.” Boopsie, a free mobile search app, aims to cut…
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Starting tomorrow, spare lithium batteries … [Batteries]
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Starting tomorrow, spare lithium batteries will be banned from checked airline luggage. But two spares of most standard battery types can still be brought in carry-on bags, in clear baggies.
Mon 31 Dec 2007
New voice-to-text reminder service reQall is more than a little bit like the better-known Jott, but stands apart with wide accessibility and support for users in the UK and Canada. As with Jott, the…
Mon 31 Dec 2007
The New York Times’ Career Couch section offers up a handy guide to the major do’s and dont’s of negotiating a raise during or after a year-end performance review. Along with best office practices…
Mon 31 Dec 2007
davidmwilliams writes “ASUS have released a cheap subnotebook. It is far from state-of-the-art tech-wise, with 512Mb RAM and a Celeron processor. It has a 4Gb hard drive and no optical drive. Its screen is 7″ and runs at the odd resolution of 800×480 and the operating system looks like something Fisher Price might have designed. Why would you buy it? What on earth can you do with this?” I’ve been wondering this myself given the huge coverage in the media of this thing.
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Mon 31 Dec 2007
Utoxin noted that Child’s Play has raised the bar for their annual games for hospitals charity. They say “Not only did we break the million dollar mark, but we decimated it with our new total of $1,135,000! This significant achievement made this holiday season a happier, brighter one in our fifty partner hospitals. To everyone who has contributed to this amazing milestone, thank you! The hospital wish lists are still online, and some have seen new items added. While we try to get lots of new games and more to the children in time for the holidays, the hospitals have a need for equipment year-round. Likewise, we will continue to accept donations through Amazon, PayPal and the mail until next year’s fundraiser kicks off.”
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Mon 31 Dec 2007
As the OLPC Give One Get One program concludes on Monday, so will CTO Mary Lou Jepsen’s tenure with the One Laptop Per Child effort. According to the organization, she’s off to commercialize technology she invented with OLPC.
Mon 31 Dec 2007
A Wired article reports on data loss in 2007, and the numbers aren’t good. Credit card and social security theft was at an all-time high, with even more losses expected in 2008. Information thieves, it seems, are just one step ahead of IT security. “While companies, government agencies, schools and other institutions are spending more to protect ever-increasing volumes of data with more sophisticated firewalls and encryption, the investment often is too little too late. ‘More of them are experiencing data breaches, and they’re responding to them in a reactive way, rather than proactively looking at the company’s security and seeing where the holes might be,’ said Linda Foley, who founded the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center after becoming an identity theft victim herself.”
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