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New CCIE Rack Rental Widget

Posted by admin on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I have just finished programming a new OSX Dashboard Widget. It checks the current pricing and availability for CCIE Routing and Switching, CCIE Security, CCIE Voice and CCIE Security racks. The process for creating a widget is pretty straight forward. The only part that wasn’t support out of the box was making AJAX calls to […]

Half as many free iPhone apps hit app store as paid apps

Posted by admin on Sunday, July 20th, 2008

It seems the rush of free iPhone applications is slowing. Today, for example there were four applications released in the free section: Clowdy Photo Blogger, Vecka, Writing Pad, and Quitter. However, there were eight new applications for the iPhone which cost money: eWallet, Jade, Kenkou, Moo Box, Shout It, Sketches, SuperPong, and Tiny Violin. […]

The Real Top 10 Free iPhone Applications

Posted by admin on Saturday, July 19th, 2008

So, you have your iPhone 3g or you are keeping it old school and decided to keep your old iPhone and upgrade to 2.0. Either way, hopefully you have visited the App Store on your iPhone or through iTunes. On either your computer or phone you have probably seen the top 25 free […]

#17 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Friday, April 11th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#17. Adium
One of the best all-in-one messenger clients around. Adium is a free chat client that has support for Windows Live Messenger (MSN), AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, Jabber (XMPP), Google Talk, Bonjour, Apple .Mac, Lotus Sametime, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Gadu-Gadu, Live Journal talk, and MySpace IM.
Overall, besides supporting so many different protocols, […]

#18 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Thursday, April 10th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#18. Azureus
Azureus is a great BitTorrent Client. That does much more than download your favorite torrents. In case you don’t know, BitTorrent is a p2p protocol which is widely used in the distrobution of software, movies, music, and pretty much anything else.
More information on the BitTorrent Protocol can be found on wikipedia:
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer […]

#19 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#19. Caffeine
This is a small application, in both size and functionality, but I have found invaluable. Using a MacBook Pro one of the things that bothers me is how often and how frequent the monitor dims and the computer goes to sleep. However, sometimes, while not at the computer I want the computer to fall […]

#20 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#20. VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a OpenSource alternative to running Windows on your Mac. This isn’t BootCamp. No, this is similar to Parallels or VMware Fusion, without the price tag!
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT […]

Can Google predict the next president?

Monday, April 7th, 2008 - Featured, Random Thoughts

While watching the usual news channels it seems that 30 minutes can’t go by without the news anchor referring to the presidential election. It’s true with the election approaching upon us quickly it seems like a American can’t get enough coverage of it. What about people’s actual feelings on the matter. That […]

#21 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Monday, April 7th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#21. Handbrake
When it comes to backing up your dvd collection so you can watch it on your Apple TV or iPhone, there isn’t a better free program than Handbrake. The current version for Mac includes a lot of upgrades and is even faster than previous versions.
Download now!

From the developers site:
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, […]

#22 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#22. Last.fm
Last.fm is one of those applications that once you use it, you really understand how cool it is. It’s basically a great music station on your computer. Gives you the ability to scrobble your tracks, share your music taste, listen to personlised radio streams, and discover new music and people. By typing in a […]

ULCPC’s keeping XP around for a few more years…

Friday, April 4th, 2008 - Cheap Computers

Good news for us frugle people. It seems the Microsoft isn’t ready to kill Windows XP just yet. Even after the release of Windows Vista SP 1, it seems that Microsoft still needs to keep XP around due the limited processing power, memory, etc. of these ULCP’s (ultra low-cost PCs).
This seems strange to […]

#23 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Friday, April 4th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#23. Argonaut
The #23 Free Leopard application is a game. That’s right gaming isn’t just for Windows users any more and there are a number of free games for Mac. This spot was going to be for PlasmaPong ,but since Atari owns the copyright to Pong the site is down. However, the download is […]

#24 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#24. The Unarchiver

In the 24th spot is a small but great utility to extract files. I have used this application for many years and it works for 99% of all the archives out there. Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats. Download here.
From […]