[tech junkie]

Geotagging for everyone

For people like myself that are stuck with a digital camera that was built before anyone had even thought up the term "geotagging", there is finally a solution that will enable you to have location information for all your snaps. There are a number of original manufacturer and 3rd party solutions available for a handful of the higher end cameras, but most of them are quite expensive and are most certainly not readily available locally. This device requires you to sync your computers time w...

Enabling click-to-dial on Snow Leopard

As a follow up on my Dialectic article, I thought it may be necessary to post some information on how to enable click-to-dial in Snow Leopard. The problem is that Mac OS X 10.6 no longer supports contextual menu plug-ins, so any plug-ins that you had will stop working after you upgrade to Snow Leopard. Replacing this functionality is a much improved Services support and this can be used to dial selected phone numbers from most applications. After installing Dialectic you can do the foll...

A word on migrating Wordpress installations

One of the reservations I had about migrating this blog from Wordpress.com to a hosted Wordpress installation was the difficulty I thought I would have migrating all my content over. I also wasn't sure if the same themes and widgets would be available to me. The concern around themes and widgets was put to rest quickly after a few short searches for the stuff I wanted. I also read an article a few days prior about exporting the post content from the site using the export tool built into W...

MobileMe Media Sync — Apple Patent Watch

File this under awesome x rad. Seriously, I find it so annoying when can't carry on listening (or watching) to my current song or podcast when I move from one device to another. Sitting at my desk listening to a podcast on iTunes and switching to my iPhone when I have to dash off somewhere is mildly frustrating because I need to get to the correct podcast and then scan for the spot I was at before I can pick up where I left off. With this I should just be able to pop my earbuds in and hit pla...

Do you Poken ?

I've been looking at getting one of these for a while, but never got around to it. Now I've won one in a competition and I'm keen to see just how useful these are. The primary challenge that "early adopters" will have is that if you don't have anyone to "Poken" with, you basically just have a small piece of plastic with an LED that never goes on in your pocket. The idea is simple, you store all your online contact information on the Poken and then when you are at social or business...

Billion take it to the next level

You heard it here first, but now Billion have taken it to the next level. With this device you can have the best of both worlds - Wifi and EoP (Ethernet over Power). You are pretty much guaranteed to have every inch of your house covered either with wired or wireless connectivity without the hassle of having to lay (and hide) Ethernet cable all over the place. Billion is supplied locally by Nology and is apparently ready to be ordered from them. I've been scouring the local e-tailers b...

Automate getting your RSS fix

Over time I've messed around with a number of OS X applications that automate the finding and downloading of content that I subscribe to with RSS. Some of the applications that I have been using have not been updated in a long time and they have begun to become more and more unreliable. Fortunately I recently came across "Automatic": Automatic allows you to set up subscriptions for virtually any content linked in RSS feeds: podcasts, videocasts, torrentcasts... Rule of thumb: if i...