Entries for Monday, October 2, 2006
➠ October 2, 2006
Fossil Bluetooth Caller ID watch
Cunning idea — a watch that connects to your watch via Bluetooth, then vibrates and shows caller ID information when you get a call or a text, so you don’t have to go raking through your pockets/bag for your phone. Of course, it’ll be a total battery drain, but a lovely innovation nonetheless.
GigaOM » DVD Jon Fairplays Apple
Could be interesting — DVDJon reverse engineered Apple’s DRM, and is looking to license it to other companies wanting to sell DRMed tracks. Of course, Apple can break it again with a firmware update, so who knows where this is going.
Mouse Print
Cataloguing the smaller-than-small print associated with advertising claims.
PhishTank | Join the fight against phishing
New open database of user-submitted Phishing URLs. Somewhat reminiscent of Mark Fletcher’s old “Trustic” startup. Not sure how well the submission/validation system will scale, or deal with gaming, but it could be interesting to watch.
DejaVuWiki
Bitstream’s open-sourced Vera fonts, tweaked to include masses of Unicodery. Vera Sans Mono has been my text-editor font of choice for a while.
TPS report cover sheet [pdf]
We’re putting new cover sheets on all of our TPS reports now before they go out.