Today Amazon introduced its new venture into digital downloads for games. So far the new Game Download store contains 600 ‘casual games’ that can be played without the need for physical media (remember optical media is dying). Titles range in price from $6.99 to $9.99, with older games costing less. Additionally, games can be [...]
Amazon Introduces Game Download Service
By Franklin Davis on Feb 3, 2009 within Coffee Break, Technology, Windows | Comments
Gmail Adds Tasks for the iPhone
By Franklin Davis on Feb 2, 2009 within Apple, Google | Comments
This is just a quick note to inform everyone that you can now manage your Gmail Tasks from your iPhone (or other web enabled phone). Simply go to gmail.com/tasks from Mobile Safari and log in. Pretty cool, huh?
P.S. Personally I prefer the paid app Things, but I know some of you out [...]
Simple Ways to Display Your iCal Agenda in OS X Leopard [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Jan 29, 2009 within Apple, Tips | Comments
Now that my Google Calendar syncs with my iCal, I actually have a reason to use iCal. Although I still mainly use it for the notifications and iPhone syncing, it is still nice to be able to see my daily agenda at a glance. Here are a few ways that I’ve found to display [...]
AppShopper - Find iPhone/iPod Touch Apps Easily
By Franklin Davis on Nov 14, 2008 within Apple | Comments
Finding apps in the iTunes App Store is becoming tricky as the number of available third party applications is rapidly approaching 10,000. Fortunately, Arnold Kim (creator of MacRumors.com) has developed a new site (AppShopper.com) dedicated to tracking the apps in the App Store. The Top 100 - as its name indicates - keeps [...]
Is WPA Broken? Not quite.
By Franklin Davis on Nov 7, 2008 within Technology | Comments
Ars Technica has a well written piece by Glenn Fleishman about Erik Tews’ (pictured) work on cracking WPA. Up until now WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) has been the only alternative to the severely flawed Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). Note: it now takes only seconds to break into a WEP secured wireless network. Fortunately, there [...]
A List of Useful Ubuntu (Linux) Commands
By Franklin Davis on Oct 6, 2008 within Lists, Ubuntu | Comments
This is just a list of commands I have found useful as I’m switching from a Mac to a Ubuntu machine at work. I’ll add to this list as I discover new commands; feel free to suggest a new command to me via the comments. In general, I use []s as placeholders and [...]
A List of Great Ubuntu Applications
By Franklin Davis on Sep 28, 2008 within Featured, Lists, Ubuntu | Comments
Here is a quick list of useful Ubuntu applications. Leave me a comment if you know of a good Ubuntu application that I have omitted. Enjoy!
A List of Great iPhone and iPod Touch Applications
By Franklin Davis on Aug 4, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Lists | Comments
One of the great things about iPhone 2.0 is the ability to download from an evergrowing selection of third party applications. Here are some really good ones for you to try. I’ve listed my ten favorite applications at the top followed by others worthy of honorable mentions.
Click on any of the application [...]
Sync Google Calendar and iCal for Free using CalDAV
By Franklin Davis on Jul 28, 2008 within Apple, Google | Comments
This is just a quick note to let everyone know that you can finally sync your Google Calendar with iCal on your Mac. Google today announced that they are enabling CalDAV support for Google Calendar users. The image below shows typical setttings, but you’ll want to go to the official google [...]
How to Get Animated Weather Radar on Your iPhone or iPod Touch [iPhone Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Jul 26, 2008 within Apple, Tips | Comments
Since the iPhone currently lacks Flash support, getting animated weather radar from Weather.com, Weather Underground, or other common weather sources just isn’t possible. Here are some solutions that I’ve found to this problem. Simply load one of the web applications from below in your Mobile Safari browser and then use the [...]
Solve Puzzles for Science while Playing a Game : Foldit!
By Franklin Davis on Jul 23, 2008 within Apple, Entertainment, Windows | Comments
Foldit is a new computer game that allows individuals to contribute to protein folding research. Think of it as similar to grid processing approaches like the protein folding project (folding@home) or the search for extraterrestrial life forms (SETI@home). However, rather than using millions of computers to try every possible solution/location, this new approach takes [...]
How to Get the Most from StumbleUpon [Tips]
By Franklin Davis on Jun 26, 2008 within Coffee Break, Tips | Comments
StumbleUpon is a great way to discover new content on the internet. You tell StumbleUpon about your interests and it will show you pages from the internet that you might enjoy (you can try a quick demo if you are wary). The easiest way to use StumbleUpon is via the Firefox add-on (there [...]
Anxiety - A Simple and Elegant To-do List Manager [Mac Freeware, Review]
By Franklin Davis on Jun 26, 2008 within Apple, Reviews | Comments
Anxiety is a lightweight to-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard from designer and developer Tom Stoelwinder. Anxiety is a very simple and elegant application that allows users to quickly create to-dos. One of its main strengths is the ability to integrate with OS X task management applications such as Mail and iCal. [...]
Hulu, Let Me Count the Ways I Love/Hate You [Review, Opinion]
By Franklin Davis on Jun 18, 2008 within Entertainment, Reviews | Comments
I was more than a little skeptical when NBC jumped ship on iTunes and announced it would create its own video portal. Usually such endeavors crash and burn in dramatic fashion, e.g., ABC.com, AOL Video, and Google’s Video Marketplace. However, as soon as I got my beta invite I was pleasantly [...]
How to Enable Mac Address Book to Sync with Google’s Gmail Contacts without an iPhone or .Mac [Mac Guide]
By Franklin Davis on May 29, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Google, Tips | Comments
This is just a quick tip to explain how to sync your Mac Address Book (Leopard 10.5.3 only) with Google’s Gmail without needing an iPhone or a .Mac account. If you have an iPhone then you don’t need this tip and can follow these instructions. If you don’t have a Gmail account you’ll [...]