[bit] Slydial
23 Jul 2008 8:03am GMT Slydial is a “voice messaging service that connects you directly to someone’s mobile voicemail,” no matter their mobile carrier, or yours. I can totally see myself using this service a lot, and while it is “free,” I think I actually might opt for the $0.15/message plan to get around the short, pre-message audio ad. (Nevermind that I probably shouldn’t announce this publicly).
Use Dropbox to sync MarsEdit across multiple machines
20 Jul 2008 8:58am GMT As great as MarsEdit is (and it is great), it doesn’t yet let me sync drafts across multiple machines. With respect to WordPress (and some other CMSs), MarsEdit does allow you to save your posts as drafts on your web server; however, I have a general aversion to this because it requires that I remember to update the timestamp of the post (to the current date/time) when I actually publish it, and also causes the post IDs to stray from date-order (I know, I’m anal). A couple of...
[bit] YouTomb
17 Jul 2008 8:42am GMT YouTomb is a “research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.”
[bit] Samsung TL9 camera has analog gauges
17 Jul 2008 6:06am GMT Samsung TL9 camera has analog gauges. Love it.
[bit] Byline
16 Jul 2008 10:10pm GMT Byline is a Google Reader client for the iPhone. The app looks nice enough, but unfortunately it offers zero granularity with respect to choosing what you want to read (i.e., your only option is “new”). No thanks. Relatedly, Google Reader’s “web app” for the iPhone is fantastic; I’m half-convinced that most of the people still clinging to NetNewsWire haven’t given Google Reader a fair shake, and at this point, likely never will. The brilliance of the...