From http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6099532.html:
Yahoo announced on Thursday the general availability of its latest chat application, which enables users to do a lot more than just chat.
The new Yahoo Instant Messenger with Voice, which offers telephony functions, features more than 180 plug-ins created by developers from inside and outside Yahoo.
“Goobuntu” can be loosely translated as “I am what I am because of what Google will be”. The word derives from a bunch of speculative articles in the press that appeared after some Google employee mumbled something about Google using their own distribution of Ubuntu internally. Though Google has stated that this is an internal-only distribution that is only useful to their employees, many speculate that Google will publically release an OS that will forever free the computing world from the reigns of Microsoft, thereby curing world hunger and creating eternal peace and prosperity (ostensibly while also indexing all of your documents on the Internet and sending logs of your activity to the Googleplex in order to create better contextual relevance and monetization). The concept of “Goobuntu” is closely related to:
“Messianic Googlism” – the belief that Google will bring salvation to the world. Some believe that Google is God’s search engine and the source of his omniscience.
“Googoogooglism” – the belief that anything that comes out of Google, however mundane, is fantastic and world-changing. Case in point, Google Ctemplate is believed by some to have the potential to “change the internets” [sic]
An intriguing-looking device from Silicondust, the creators of the TurboNet (which I own), AirNet, and CacheCard for TiVo Series 1 units.
Cool web site. You plug in your zip code (and street address if you’d like) and it tells you what stations are available in your area and in what direction you’d need to point your antenna to pick them up. It looks like since there are lot of stations broadcasting from Sutro Tower in San Francisco, I should get a pretty good selection of digital stations (some in HD no doubt) by pointing a UHF antenna at 298 degrees. Nice to know.
For all of you Mac OS X addicts who have been lamenting the lack of an MS Project for the Mac or just want native, polished OS X project management software in general, this sounds like it could be the ticket:
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/
I haven’t tried it myself, but the Omni folks have a pretty good track record for Mac software.