[tech junkie]

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...

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...

Click-to-dial from the Apple address book

I've been using an IP softphone on my Mac for some time, but there has been no integration between the softphone and the Apple address book. It wasn't the biggest issue for me, but I became really tired of copying the numbers I looked up and pasting them into the softphone to be able to dial. After trolling the interweb yesterday and finding a few address book plug-in scripts (that no longer work with Snow Leopard), I came across Dialectic from JN Software. It works with pretty much ev...