Gravitational Pull: A blog about tech and other stuff.
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New camera needs lots of accessories
For a recent business trip to Alaska (sweet!), I determined that my trusty & wonderful Canon SD 400 Digital Elph wasn’t up to snuff. So I splurged on a digital SLR that was on sale at Best Buy, Canon’s Rebel XT. Va-va-voom. It’s big and bulky but takes me back to the days of my…
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Boo-hoo, Civ IV Mac
Well, it seems you need a G5 or Intel-based Mac to play Civ IV. Looks like I’m outta luck since I’ve got neither and the whole idea was to play on the commuter train on my Powerbook G4 (ps don’t ever, ever buy 1st generation hardware like round I of the new Macbook Pro). At…
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Hurray, Civ IV on my PB
Just one more month until Civ IV is available for Macs. Hmm, should make the daily commute more fun and the rest of life slightly less productive…
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My indi-adventure begins
And it doesn’t have anything to do with Harrison Ford’s upcoming flick, which doesn’t arrive until next year. Instead, I got an email today that starts: Hello Aaron, In the recent past you requested to join the “indi” software Beta program. Please accept this as your invitation. Ok, I did and I will.
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New stuff floating my boat
Catching up on a bunch of feeds at Bloglines this morning, I found my inbox filed with news of cool stuff. The 1.5.0.2 upgrade of Firefox on my Powerbook g4 renders page with super speed that puts Safari to shame. Next, and I can’t quite decide whether this is great or insane, a service called…
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Can overhyped Flock deliver?
Once upon a time, oh say, 6 months ago, the hypemiesters descended on a new browser called Flock that wasn’t quite ready for primetime leading to the inevitable backlash. Flock, based on open-source Firefox code, was supposed to have nifty integration with blogs and photo sites and other such socially-oriented web 2.0 stuff but it…
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Slowly comes the needed stuff for Macbook Pro
Phew — according to Om Malik, here comes a wireless broadband card (in Verizon and Sprint’s EV-DO flavor) that fits in the MacBook Pro’s new expresscard/34 slot. And the good folk at EVDOInfo even have a photo. Yes.
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Where oh where is an iPod recorder
I’m loving my iPod “with video” more than ever, but I am missing big-time the recording capability of my old 3G iPod with its Griffin Technology iTalk accessory. I’ve been waiting for months for a replacement. In January, a small company called Xtrememac pre-announced a product called the Micromemo that looked cool, was a bit…
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Any indi-viduals wanna invite me into the beta?
The holy grail of over-connected, excessively web surfing, data drowning knowledge workers like me is some sort of vast, self-synchronizing, ubiquitious data management app that would let me get access to any phone number, email address, calandar entry, to-do item, bookmark etc. from anywhere. Lately, I’ve been adding apps to a nifty Ultra II SD…
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Amazing vid of Berkeley radical helps explain BSG
Some years ago, I watched a great documentary called Berkeley in the Sixties that used all manner of archival footage to help explain how a bunch of middle class white kids got radical. In particular, a 1964 speech given by then 21-year-old student named Mario Savio has always stuck with me. The money quote: “There…
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