. . . that works over any sort of IM client. Done thinking? Check out WigiWigi. Beta testers are saying that while it’s not ready for prime time, at a download size of 450K and an install and configuration time of about 30 seconds, the software is really cool. WigiWigi will work over all IM clients such as Skype, AIM, Google Talk, MSN, Yahoo, etc. and will be multi-user when complete.
WOW!
Get it while it lasts — you can download the iPod plugin for WinAmp that will allow you to interact with all kinds of iPods in WinAmp. Couple that with the iTunes Database Importer and the M4P Input Plugin, which together will allow library importation and playing of AAC (i.e., iTunes Music Store and Apple Lossless) encoded files.
Does anyone else think that there’s probably going to be a cease and desist letter and/or firmware “upgrade” from Apple to stop this?
If you are married, sometimes it is more worthwhile to not have both husband and wife working because of the tax effect. Here’s a simple calculator from MSN Money to help you do the analysis.
Sure there are taxes (those of you in California have them listed out for you on the pumps), but really a lot of it is driven by speculation (i.e., buying and selling of futures). Mark Cuban has a great post about the effect of futures trading on gas prices.
With oil and gas its different . There is a finite supply at any given point in time. The current and future availability of which can be impacted by any number of issues, from natural disasters to man made events. When enough speculators come in and start going long, it drives up prices not of a piece of paper, but of products whose pricing impacts me , you and everyone we know and don't know.
When a bunch of “momentum speculators” jump in trying to make money off the price movement and push up the price, everyone in this country is the loser with higher gas and oil prices.
You can use the Google Planimeter to measure area between points you define on a map or satellite picture.
Damn cool.
You should read this story on the Car Connection.
I’m holding out for 0% for 60 months from GM before I’m willing to look at anything and I just saw yesterday that Toyota is already running 0% for 60 months on 2005 4Runners, so I may not be too far off in my expectations.
We’ll see what happens. I’m not sure that they are going to do anything starting next week, but you never know.
I stumbled across Webhuddle when looking into some other online meeting services. Although I have not yet tried the service, here are some attractive points:
There is not information on the site about pricing.
On Monday, according to this article on Collider, T-Mobile will release the Blackberry 7105. Although I can’t tell any difference at all, apparently these are the new features:
Doesn’t really seem like that much of an upgrade, but I don’t use one myself, so I guess I really can’t say.
Interesting that this coincides nicely with the rumored next week release of the Blackberry 7100i for Nextel/Sprint.
Cool post on TUAW links through to this how-to guide on streaming video straight from a video camera to an iChat user.
Pretty interesting.
The Nokia 9300 will be carried by Cingular and be available in November, but the interesting functionality that this phone will have is a Blackberry Connect client. Full details of the phone are available at this post on MobileWhack. Essentially the 9300 is the remake of the old candybar communicator that you clamshell open to find a full keyboard and screen. Cost from Cingular will be $299 with a 2–year contract and after a $50 MIR; users will be able to add the unlimited Blackberry data plan for $44.99 per month.
Does this mean that some of the other phones that have been promising Blackberry Connect for years will finally start releasing it to compete?
. . . but this guy has supposed screenshots of iTunes for Windows Mobile 5.0.
It would certainly be way cool if it’s not a hoax and may mean that Apple will be introducing various versions of iTunes that will run on different mobile platforms. The author of the link above claims:
Although this was supposed to be out about 1 year ago, Sprint finally announced the i930 for the iDen (read “Nextel”) network. Underwhemingly, the phone will run Windows Mobile 2003 SE instead of Windows Mobile 2005 and seems to be twice as thick as an i730. On the cool side for international business people, the phone does allow international roaming on the 900/1800 GSM bands; no GSM roaming in America though. Furthermore, the phone will allow GPRS data roaming in “. . . areas where Sprint has international roaming agreements.”
Right over here at this post on Engadget. Rumors have been flying that RIM would officially unveil this device today, but the source of the pictures on the Engadget site are not from RIM. Here’s on of the pictures:
Still looks like a pocket calculator to me.