DS9 and Galactica hooncho
Ron Moore on Trek in the NYT.
Free fax and VM to email
Sync
Unify & synch multiple iTunes libraries, at O’Reilly, via the (for some reason currently unreachable) BrainLog.
Oh
Spare a thought for the brilliant and funny B^2 this weekend. He’s got a hard row to hoe just about now.
Mount Weather
The Guardian: Is this Bush’s secret bunker?: Our national underground cities, as seen by the Limey. Special guest appearance by the Smoking Man.
Hometown cookin'
Erik and Kira Eat Bloomington: some young people set out to eat through my homwtown’s eateries. It appears that not many places I once ate or drank at have made it on the list.
Interestingly, this photo leads one to wonder which Eric might be involved in this.
Too early, too late, what good's the money if you ain't got the time
I was looking at the rumor that Palm will release Q4 Cingular-only EDGE-enabled Treos this fall, and came across a forum post claiming that Cingular salesbots are noting that the release has been pulled. However, now I can’t find it and there are numerous posts on a multiplicity of sources claiming a European release date of September 12 followed by an October release in the US.
So I turned to solving the problem of direct keyboard access to the Mini, our current media center box. Ideally, I want a compact bluetooth keyboard with an integrated pointing device. Compact(!) bluetooth keyboards abound, but none that I noted included a pointing device (although the ever-forward-thinking FrogPadders are apparently thinking about it).
However, two integrated multi-port USB-slash-bluetooth hubs are available, in theory. Unfortunately the $19.99 DTech hub appears to be safely ensconced in containers at sea, whilst the considerably more attractive (in a borg-y way) MSI hub, retailing at $89 but street-cheaper looks to be in stock here and there.
Alas, this still fails to solve my preferred mouselesscouchpotatohoodness (how does that work in the German?). Additionally, I note in fora reaction about the USB-slash-bluetooth hubs, there’s clearly a market for a Bluetooth USB hub, wherein one might pair the widget and hang one’s devices (est qu’il-y-a’n accent? Je n’sais pas) USB off the CPU sans wiring to the boîte.
Net result: Thrift and desire, one. Profligacy and entitlement, zero.
Sawbuck
Service!
This week I have been exploring Google’s own-domain web-apps (email and more!) and looking into the interesting Amazon aStore beta. To set up an aStore, you must first obtain an Amazon affliate ID, for which you may apply here.
I have a project in the kitchen which is likely to make use of the aStore app, and i deem it to be timely!
No no Nokia
For about a year I have been frustrated by the inadequate file-sync support available for the Nokia series 6 phones, in particular the 6600 and the 6620. There appeared to be only limited ways to get the images off the phone.
The best way has proven to be removing the battery and downloading from the storage card by mounting the card on a USB reader; but the following pieces of software may also be of assistance:
Nokia Collector enables desktop file transfer to the phone only. Uploads appear as new SMS messages, enabling application installation.
Photo Server and Photo Retreiver are a pair of apps that enable image transfers from Nokia series 60 phones. A note, however: as of this writing, the download link will produce a non-binary download. I used an ftp client and set the file-type to binary manually, which worked. The developer has a bunch of interesting apps, most especially including a range of Nokia-specific Mac-remote-control via Bluetooth goodies.