January 23, 2003

Cheap Wifi Mesh ISP in a box

MeshBox “configures a group of wireless access points into a coherent “mesh” and connects them to any broadband Internet node available.”

January 22, 2003

Googlert

“Googlert is an experimental free service which keeps you updated on what the web is saying about you, your products or your interests. It does this by performing regular Google searches on your behalf and sending an email alert containing any new results that appear.”

January 21, 2003

Macromedia Contribute

I spent a few minutes today runing throught the product tour of Macromedia’s new light-wieght CMS application Contribute and I have to say that for $99 it seems to be very powerful… I need to test out a demo before I believe the hype, but it certainly has peeked my interest.

January 20, 2003

Blog via SMS using Moblogger

Moblogger: “This application runs as a background process that monitors a POP3 email account for new email, then downloads it, detaches any files such as pictures, sound or video, uses the Blogger API to post the text in the email to your blog and uses FTP to post the files to your server. Send the email from a phone and you immediately start “moblogging”. (via Ben)

However, it seems to me that Abe Fettig HEP Message server is moving in a similar direction, but not really focused on Moblogging.

January 19, 2003

Converting an XBox into a PVR and more

“Project Dreamix will turn the Microsoft Xbox into the ultimate home entertainment center” (via SlashDot)

January 19, 2003

The TrackBack Flavors

I’ve been scratching my head for the last few days trying to make sense of all the latest TrackBack derivatives, but thanks to Ben Hammersley I can finally put them all into perspective.

Wonderful job!

January 18, 2003

Cold Ride

With the current North East cold spell, here’s something to put in perspective …

“Adventurer Doug Stoup is preparing to be the first person to cycle to the South Pole.”

“Stoup, a 37-year-old from sunny Florida, is currently in Antarctica testing a custom-built ice bicycle he hopes to use for a run at the pole next year.”

However, that’s a sweet ride!

January 17, 2003

YourMom.com has a new home

All right, I’ll admit it … I own the domain YourMom.com. I’ve had the domain and web site for a number of years. It’s a long story how I acquired the domain, but suffice it to say, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to own yourmom.com (ok, bad joke ;).

Anyway, your mom’s past hosting provider went belly up so she now has a new provider. However, I also used this move as an opportunity to port the site to a completely new code base and scripting language. It went a lot smoother than I expected thanks to the wonderful phpLinks, which is essentially a PHP/MySQL-based web link portal management application that I tweaked a bit to manage the hundreds of your mom jokes for the YM site.

January 16, 2003

Cheap DIY Tablet PC

Wei-Meng Lee and Brian Jepson over @ O’Reilly detail how to convert your Laptop into a Tablet PC (cheaply!)

January 15, 2003

Taxomita: web-based authoring application

This isn’t released yet, but … “Taxomita is a web-based authoring application that lets you create distributed, hierarchical, faceted metadata, and use it to index any page on the web.”