Month: July 2005

Sync your Palm with Thunderbird address book

From treo Addicts: For those of you who use Thunderbird, Firefoxâ€™s email companion, there is an extension available to sync your contacts with your Palm device. PalmSync winds up replacing the Palm address book Hotsync...

Productivity

Think better with chewing gum?

Here's an interesting article that claims that the simple act of chewing gum increases the mind's ability to concentrate and to retain knowledge. Research has shown that chewing does indeed increase our ability to concentrate and...

GeneralMac

How to disable Tiger’s Dashboard

Dashboard is pretty cool, but it eats a lot of memory. If you want to disable it, execute this at a command prompt: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES I did this but I'm also going to try to upgrade my...

General

Podcast about Palm development tools

I've been toying with the idea of writing a Palm app or two lately so I enjoyed the last few minutes of this PalmAddicts podcast, where Tyler Faux talked about some Palm development tools such as Palm OS Developer Suite (PODS),...

General

Skyped out

I hadn't talked to my parents in a while and I had some SkypeOut credits and I wanted to test out my new Cardo Systems scala-500 Bluetooth headset: I easily paired the headset with the Linksys USBBT100 Bluetooth USB dongle...

GeneralMac

Just purchased xGestures

xGestures is a nice little Mac OS X program for global mouse gestures (kind of like StrokeIt for Windows). I had the trial version and I just decided to register it for a mere $5. Links xGestures StrokeIt...

MacWindows

Yahoo! Widgets

Wow, following right on the heels of the announcement that Konfabulator was acquired by Yahoo!, Yahoo! has released free versions of Konfabulator for both Mac and Windows with a few new Yahoo! widgets. Check out:...