Tech Rant

Google Takes Over (my) World

Posted by isaac on July 15, 2007 at 8:16 am
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I’ve been on the road 4 out of the last 6 weeks. I have a laptop, but hooking that up to family member’s persnickety broadband connections can sometimes be more trouble than it’s worth. Enter Google. For some time now, they’ve been touting a web app version of most of the things [...]

Firefox Extension

Posted by isaac on October 27, 2006 at 9:24 pm

Per Pete’s request, my favorite Firefox extension is FoxyTunes.  FoxyTunes is an iTunes controller for those who are too lazy to switch back and forth from iTunes to select their track.  It’s right up your alley Pete.

Firefox 2.0

Posted by isaac on October 26, 2006 at 9:58 am

In keeping with the Web 2.0 buzz-i-ness, Mozilla released version 2.0 of the Firefox Web Browser yesterday. I grabbed Release Candidate 2 and 3 a while ago and was happy with them. 2.0 is nice as well. I agree with Michael, pages tend to render a bit faster.
There is also a a [...]

At last, it’s here.

Posted by isaac on October 15, 2005 at 2:16 pm

Since Ben is tired of the contents of my truck tray, I’ll wax eloquently (actually, I’ll leave a waxy residue) on the new iPod.

Here’s what I like:
it plays video (duh)
it plays video out to a TV as well

video material is easily available through the iTunes music store (if you can still call it a music [...]

Mmmmm….Nano

Posted by isaac on September 20, 2005 at 5:52 am

Even though I like all my audio with me (more than 2 or 4 GBs) and already have an iPod, I still want one.

And now…for an announcement

Posted by isaac on July 4, 2005 at 6:34 am

You may now reach me at www.igaff.com. That is all.

iTunes 4.9

Posted by isaac on June 30, 2005 at 3:19 am

iTunes 4.9 was released yesterday. Go grab it if you haven’t already. It now integrates podcasting support. You can go to the Music Store in iTunes and search for your favorite podcasts and subscribe to them with 1 click or download individual episodes. It was fun to go to the Music [...]

Widget Test

Posted by isaac on June 16, 2005 at 1:38 am

This is a test post from a posting Widget.
In other news, I’ve completed my decline into the socially cut-off. I listened to my iPod the entire time while grocery shopping at Walmart. Hey, it’s Walmart; I hate going there anyway.
This concludes the Widget test.

Apple and Intel

Posted by isaac on June 14, 2005 at 1:00 pm

Alert: computer geeky post to follow
Shooting from the hip, I don’t see a lot of potential bad from this. My initial concern when I first heard the escalated rumors was software recompiling. After watching the Keynote Address from Apple’s WWDC, recompiling of apps looks like it’s going to be fairly easy for the [...]