Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit (via NewsRealBlog)
I like to think that I’m an equal-opportunity bumper-sticker hater, but there are definitely some that are more annoying than others. Luckily for those, there’s the BS Removal Kit.
Be sure to listen until the very end though, the disclaimer is great.
iOS 4 Jailbreak: Why It Still Matters
With the new features in iOS4, lots of people have asked me if I still plan to jailbreak my phone. My answer is a resounding yes, and Frederico Viticci at MacThemes explains most of the reasons why.
An iPhone 4 jailbreak isn’t out yet, but I can tell you in all honesty that I’m sorely missing LockInfo and MyWi, two amazing applications that make the iPhone an (even more) amazing device.
Mort Zuckerman: World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur - US News and World Report
This comes from one of the most powerful men in America, a man who tirelessly supported Mr. Obama throughout his campaign and now exhibits a currently popular sort of buyer’s remorse. The article lays out precisely why Mr. Zuckerman is disappointed, point by point, but the sad reality is that we have at least two more years of a president whose inexperience isn’t just a personal flaw but a national liability.
RSS, which I have written about several times before, is my primary medium for gaining information - newsworthy, political, technological. One of the issues with using RSS to catch up on news and posts is that many sites these days do not have full site RSS feeds. Instead, they truncate their RSS entries to include only the first few sentences or a summary of each article.
Luckily, I have come across an amazing little tool called WizardRSS that takes any RSS feed and converts it to a new RSS feed that includes the full length articles instead of the truncated ones of the original. The technology is based on another great tool called Readability, on which incidentally Apple built its new Safari Reader feature.
While it doesn’t work completely correctly for all feeds, WizardRSS is an amazing improvement over using standard “sneak peak” RSS feeds, particularly for newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal.
If you’re an RSS regular, I highly recommend you convert your truncated RSS feeds using WizardRSS - it’s quite useful (and free)!
I have been obsessed with Google Reader since it was released back in 2005, but I have never received an actual physical manifestation of my obsession.
Today I received a letter in the mail from the Google Reader team, awarding me the Platinum Badge for reading over 133,700 items since I signed up for the Google Reader. What was originally one of Google’s ever-crafty April Fool’s jokes (Google Reader Advantage™) turned into quite a mad dash for the badges, as they ran out of them in just 27 minutes.
In that post, the team decided to post at some interesting Google Reader usage statistics, most of which make me feel better about my Google Reader usage. Google Reader doesn’t provide lifetime trends, but I can tell you that from my 311 subscriptions, I have read 14,745 items in the last 30 days. Read is a bit of an overstatement however, since I only read the headlines of most of those articles. And those that I do read get sent to Instapaper.
Either way, thanks Google Reader Team. You guys rock.
Middle of the day in May on the Bay: pouring rain, thunder, and darkness.
Hawaii in t-minus 2 days…
(via Instapaper Editor’s Picks)
Just finished this fascinating articled on the Conficker worm that continues to infect PCs around the world. I had no idea the extent of the problem, but the potential of this worm is utterly devastating. The bad guys are winning, and they’re winning big.
For the last few months, I have been using a great little app called TotalFinder, which adds several useful features to Mac OSX’s traditional Finder app.
TotalFinder changes the look and function of Finder windows to include tabs. That way, you don’t have to have 4 different windows to keep track of if you’re switching between four different folders - Total Finder groups all of these windows into a single, tabbed window:
To move files between tabs, you can simply drag a file from one tab to the other. This works exactly as you would imagine. TotalFinder has one more amazing trick up its sleeve however. You can also view two Finder windows side-by-side, simply by double clicking on one of their tabs (see the screenshot below).
This dual-pane view is a very unique feature that allows you to more easily manipulate files on your Mac.
TotalFinder retains all of the features of Apple’s Finder, while adding much needed features to what seems like a dated application. TotalFinder is currently free while under development, but will be $15 when it hits 1.0 sometime soon. You can download TotalFinder on the BinaryAge website.
Starbucks Presents: Josh Ritter, Live from the Creative Studio (via ECEU)
He’s so good. SO good.
