Pandora's Radio Station

Based on the music genome project, Pandora is a great way to listen to new types of music and different artists. You input the name of a song or artist you like. What the site does is find the type of music that is related to or a song from the artist ( If you chose artist instead of songs) then creates a playlist called "radio station" of songs relating to whatever you put in. This also gives you a chance to listen to new music which is similar to your favorites which leads to you a situation with an entirely different song from what you put in the first place.

Hitatchi Terabyte Hard Drive

Yep, says it all

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/04/17/hitachi_7k1000_terabyte_hard_drive/

Mac Hacked?

Cnet will always be Cnet, an article came up that says some guy hacked a mac through Safari using cross-scripting. This one thing received a lot of views and mac users vs Pc users plagued the comment box but thing is this is just a Safari flaw, who uses it anyways, firefox or camino.

Mac Challenge

OK, so this guy on the Cnet talk back is arguing online about the "security flaws" of macs which allow users to access OS X. He says contrary to the article, the Mac doesn't have the security flaws listed so his answer is a challenge. His comment reads as follows

"

then why hasn't OSX been exploited?

Reader post by: OS11

Posted on: April 20, 2007, 8:42 AM PDT

Story: Apple plugs 25 Mac OS X flaws

i appreciate your confidence, but the fact remains, nobody has exploited OSX. that's a fact you can't deny. 10's of millions of machines, nobody has gotten in.

so it's time to put up or shut up... here is a raw OSX Server. Why don't you report back to us when you "crack it"

http://24.8.244.176/

If you can't, all your comments are "baseless".

Have fun!

"

http://news.com.com/5208-1002_3-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=26809&messageID=259596&start=0

So far no one has been able to do it. Anyone can try this and they should comment back to the thing if they did but its fun to watch even if you don't know how to hack into a computer.

Blogger, Web 2.0's best

Ever since its been bought by google, Blogger has received many new upgrades to its format, mostly with web 2.0. The layout for articles, blogs, and documents my sister constantly complains about is input simply by blogger with any images posted is given the choice to be posted in the corners or simply on top to give the actual text and easier feel to it. Tags similar to the youtube system of searching is added to increase web traffic for upcoming bloggers. My favorite web 2.0 service in terms of blogs will always be Tumblr but that is not actually considered a blog service but more of a subset of the blog so i'm using Tumblr, Blogger, and Twitter for any ephemeral or random things I might want to put on the web.

The best PDA ever

I was introduced a few weeks ago to this great little device which can save disorganized and chaotic lives. It shows you that in this world with electronics priced at overly eye-gouging numbers and with high schoolers and college students who only have $50 of spending money for luxury products because they bought the newest high-end computer which will either blow up in the next month or be succeeded by anew product. (mac book pro anyone?)


can't afford a blackberry? Or like me, think that PDAs are a waste of money for something that in essence is an expensive to-do list?

1. get a bunch of 3"x5" file cards ( here's 500 for around 3 bucks)
2. clip them together with a binder clip
3. there is no step 3
   

Taken from merlin mann's site, 43folders.com the Hipster PDA is a lightweight and simple device which has all the core functions of a regular PDA, sans Wi-fi and GPS of course but having this around is a way to write things down without a stylus but rather any writing utensil at your disposal.

At the end of the day take all of the notecards you've written on out and review them, sort out reference, trash, projects, and to do's. A lifesaver for High Schoolers who can't bring PDAs into the school and those who lose their planner (we have a planner?) the first two milliseconds it's given to you. That and in a big meeting where everyone brings out their electronic PDAs and blackberries, you can flash out the hPDA and be the envy of everyone in the classroom or office.

Leopard Postponed

Phone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can't wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price -- we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS® X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones.

Well considering Apple inc. started out in computers you think that they would think they'd be a little more loyal and i still don't get this, iPhone engineers--> mac leopard engineers---> not enough people in the company???

Yahoo Becomes Innovative?

Yes! For once on the web the innovation is coming from Yahoo!

Yahoo Pipes(pipes.yahoo.com)is a way to modify RSS feeds, for an example click on the XML part of my blog in the left column, basically RSS is a subscription service where a reader (google reader, i think theres one you see all the time called live bookmarks) will update the blogs/data feed everytime something new comes up. Whats innovative about this is that you can modify the data feed in a really simple interface which you get used to after a while. Some examples are on the site, one of the more unique ones is where this feed takes the headline on the New York Times and makes searches in flicker and gives you a page of just pictures relating to the headlines.

More Goodies when i find it (btw, Pipes isn't new its been on for about a week or so but its new to this blog so thats what matters)