➠ July 13, 2006
Call Me Fishmeal.: Note to Bill Gates: I'll take your bet, for $10,000.
Bill Gates says that it’s a 80% chance that Vista will ship in January. Mac developer Wil Shipley offers to take billg up on that bet.
mobile-j.de :: Products/GETrack
Series 60 cellphone app which tracks your location over time, and exports them as KML files, which can be used with Google Maps and Google Earth.
Wayfinder Earth
Navigation app for Series 60 cellphones. Maps and routes are streamed from the server, so you don’t an extra memory card to store them. Only costs €10 for a year’s subscription.
Bullet in uber slow motion - Google Video
69 seconds of slow motion footage of a variety of things getting shot. Awesome.
flow|state: Insert key safely disarmed in Microsoft Word 2007
Hitting the ‘Insert’ key in Word 2007 will no longer enable the inexplicable document-eating mode. It had never occurred to me just how horrendous a usability experience the Insert key could be.
TiVo Central Online: Guru Guide™ Recommendations
Somehow, I missed this when it launched. Subscribe your TiVo to “guides” provided by magazines. I’ve just subbed up for the Entertainment Weekly one, which nets me anything called out in the “What To Watch” section of the mag.