I have been monitoring for a bit DannyChoo.com. He has been a Product Manager at Microsoft, and most recently the Website manager at Amazon (Japan).
Take a look at his site, and you\’ll see a lot of irrelevant material, but an equal amount of small tidbits about Japanese life and culture…
Go ahead, what do you have to lose?
Indigo Touch 1.0.1 (iPhone / iPod Touch app) Released
The next version of Indigo Touch has been released by the Perceptive Automation team….
The Changes / Version History doesn\’t seem to be available at this point…
But it does require Indigo Version 4.0 B7 or higher to operate….
http://www.perceptiveautomation.com/indigo/download.html
How to Pass Your Exams Without Killing People
How to Pass Your Exams Without Killing People: Exams can be traumatic. They can sometimes lead to strange homicidal urges. No, really. Here are 10 tips on how to avoid killing those around you while you prepare for those examinations. You may not pass the exams but at least it may mean that the chair on which you sit in the future is not of the electric variety.\”
Lifehacker – The Beginner\’s Guide to Creating Virtual Machines with VirtualBox – Virtual Machine
LifeHacker discusses the use of Virtual Machines, and how to setup VirtualBox to run Windows XP.
Lifehacker – The Beginner\’s Guide to Creating Virtual Machines with VirtualBox – Virtual Machine: \”
Virtual machines can seem juuuuust a bit too geeky for most otherwise computer-friendly people. That\’s sad, because it\’s an easy, free way to try or use a separate OS without messing with your hard drive.
What\’s virtualization? Why get that nerdy?
Virtualization is a whole computer concept unto itself, at least on the server/enterprise/big-fancy-corporate level. For home users, talk about \’virtual machines\’ generally refers to x86 virtualization. Basically, it\’s software that allows an entire operating system (the \’guest\’) to run on another OS (the \’Host\’), whether in a container window, or full-screen, or in what\’s sometimes called a \’seamless\’ mode, where just one application is run from the \’guest\’\”
VMware: Team Fusion: Take Control of VMware Fusion 2 Series: Look Inside a Virtual Machine
WMWare is exposing the internal structure of their Virtual Machine container files….
In this week\’s installment of our Take Control of VMware Fusion 2 blog series, we are going to talk about how your virtual machine is stored on your Mac. If you are new to the series, the ebook Take Control of VMware Fusion 2 by Joe Kissell, teaches you all the fundamentals of VMware Fusion 2, as well as tips and tricks to get the most out of running Windows on your Mac.
Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? – Ars Technica
Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? – Ars Technica
An ISP review website in the UK claims that 25 percent of its readers have run into \’excessive use\’ warnings. Compared to the new caps being trialed in the US, though, there\’s little to complain about on that front.
Internet data caps generated controversy in the US last week as Time Warner Cable expanded its low caps to more cities and one Congressman pledged to introduce a bill limiting the practice. But capped Internet (or, as it\’s known in countries like Canada and Australia, \’Internet\’) access is a worldwide issue, even in the UK\’s competitive DSL market. One UK website now suggests that 25 percent of Internet users there have receiv\”
Switchers Blog: Add your MacHeist 3 Serials Numbers to 1Password Fast
Add your MacHeist 3 Serials Numbers to 1Password Fast
The MacHeist 3 bundle sale came to and end last week and the results were pretty impressive. Over 80,000 bundles were sold and close to $850,000 of the proceeds will be distributed to the charities as determined by bundle purchasers. As a bonus they added an application named AppShelf to the bundle to help people store their software serial numbers and packaged all the MacHeist 3 bundle serials in an AppShelf property list file. A lot our users already store all their software serials and registration codes in 1Password so we wanted to make it easy for 1Password users to do this too.
Version 2.9.13 of 1Password adds a new importer that makes getting your MacHeist 3 bundle serials into 1Password fast and easy.
via Switchers Blog: Add your MacHeist 3 Serials Numbers to 1Password Fast.
What are all those iTunes files? | Music and Audio | Playlist | Macworld
What are all those iTunes files? | Music and Audio | Playlist | Macworld: \”What are all those iTunes files?
by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld.com
You’ve probably peeked into your iTunes folder (It’s located in your user folder: Music: iTunes) and may have been perplexed by all the files and folders it contains, wondering what they’re all for. Here’s an overview of the files and folders that iTunes uses, both in the iTunes folder and elsewhere.\”