iPhone here we come!

With the announcement that Motorola has paired with Apple to hook up mobile phones to itunes we are now just a little bit closer to having an iPhone. *drool*

Lego Wars

(jedimindtrick)These are not the Legos you're looking for(/jedimindtrick).

Yet Another iPod Hack

Engadget has a feature on how to turn your iPod into a Universal Remote Control. To get this to work, they needed a Pocket PC with specialized software to record the IR signals that are outputted by your remotes. The signals are then converted into music (wav files), installed on the iPod, and then played through a special music-to-IR jack. Real simple, huh?

The strangely talented find ways to use devices outside of their intended application. And with the forthcoming age of household robotics, more hacks like this iPod Remote Control will appear.

If it wasn't dead already

If you needed another reason why the PDA is dead, here it is: How about an open-source program that works like Activesync to sync your Outlook Calendar and Contacts with your iPod. I *so* love Sourceforge!

Fiber to the home. It's about time.

Thought you were cool with an ultra-fast cable modem? DSL ping times helping you in Unreal Tournament 2004? Well, if your neighbor has a fiber connection from Verizon to his house, you might as well be using a 56K modem. The scary thing about this is that it will cost less than cable and DSL. Now, maybe cable companies will realize that the arbitrary 128K/UP cap is silly.

Tastier Apples

Attention Ipod Fans! Longer battery life, fewer $$

Pagerank

If you use Firefox and you're a fan of Google's Pagerank, you're in luck. Now you don't have to install the whole Google toolbar to get it. There's an extension called pagerankstatus that shows pagerank in the Firefox status bar. Download and enjoy!

Buy it now from Love Your Computer

My vote for best OS X app name goes to Slide Show Bob created by R.A.D. Productions. I'm waiting for IceBurrgs obligatory "Best. _____. Ever." comment, since that's the only quote he knows from the Simpsons.

Widget Tossing

Okay, so we all "oohed" and "ahhed" at Apple's Dashboard feature coming in OS 10.4. We also know that Mozilla, Apple and Opera are all working together to get more powerful web scripting (not named ActiveX) into modern browsers. What do these two things have in common? J. Hobbs thinks that we'll have web plugins that we can drag into Dashboard. He says, "Want a persistent listing of your Google gmail inbox? Drag it off their webpage. Want the weather and extended forecast for your area? Drag it off their webpage." Of course, Arlo Rose and the Konfabulator development team are still pissed off. Apple should bring them into this project -- so that Konfabulator for Windows will get a jump on Microsoft.

Kong

News flash: Jack Black says huge apes are scary. Team coverage at 6. Seriously now, I'm very excited for the King Kong movie. Whoops, not that King Kong, this one!

If someone says "stop", goes limp, or taps out this blog post is over.

Rule 1: You do not talk about Fight Club. Instead you can check out trailers for the upcoming video game. Rule 8: If this is your first night at Fight Club, you HAVE to pick up my stationary from Staples.