.: Above The Aether :.

It’s dawned on me that I can’t possibly keep up with all the RSS feeds in my Google Reader. I subscribe to 192 feeds. The refresh rate on them varies from multiple times a day (Lifehacker=16 posts per day) to maybe once a month. My account looks like someone shoved a grenade into a watermelon [...]

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You may notice I added two new features to the blog in the sidebar (look to your right).  The first one is Twitter.  Twitter is a web service that allows me to send little text updates with my phone.  The text updates are very short and very immediate.  It’s super easy to use and free. [...]

I started using Launchy a few weeks ago and I’m still getting used to it. Launchy is an application launcher that runs in the background while you you do other things. When you need to open a program (like FireFox in my screenshot above) you simply tap the ALT-SPACEBAR at the same time. That engages [...]

I wrote about BookMooch a few months ago and I just recently discovered a similar service for DVDs, CDs and Games. The service is called SwitchPlanet and it’s pretty cool. You sign up and tell SwitchPlanet the movies, music & games you are interested in. When other members send you that stuff on your wish [...]

Google launched some new functionality today on their maps product. If you do a search in google maps and click on the “Traffic” button you will get some green, yellow, red and gray lines on the highways. The colors mean the following: Green: more than 50 miles per hour Yellow: 25 – 50 miles per [...]

The good news: Bryan and I have a business name and a product name as well. The bad news: I can’t tell you what they are yet. As soon as we register both, I’ll spill the details in the blog. -Dave P.S. – I’m pretty excited about all this.

Are you good at swearing? You can prove your potty mouth by playing the profane game.   If you play, please post your score in the comments so I can see how hnaughty you really are.  The rules are quite easy.  You type as many swear words as you can in 60 seconds.  The high score [...]

This is a satallite image from Google Maps of the SR-71 spy plane docked just a few blocks away from the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City. Isn’t it ironic that citizens can now spy on a spy plane? The actual map page can be found here. -Dave

Our good friends at Google quietly launched a new feature on the Google Personal pages today. I must say, they dropped the ball this time. They put tiny little plus signs on their feed readers that are so unfriendly to use they made me cringe when I clicked on them. The little plus signs above [...]