Archive: Toys, Tools, Tech


AOL Opens IMAP Mail Access Today (April 5, 2004)

AOL opens up

I Wish I Had Thought Of This (March 25, 2004)

Old school gaming meets IM

Tycho’s Take on Battlefield: Vietnam (March 17, 2004)

A first look at the long awaited BF1942 follow-up

Amazon Introduces RSS (March 3, 2004)

Another great use of great tech

LucasArts Pulls the Plug on S&M (March 3, 2004)

Sam and Max, that is

Rolling Your Own Scenarios in “President Forever” (March 1, 2004)

A great game gets even better

Call for Help: SSH Port Forwarding (February 23, 2004)

Taking the LazyWeb approach

Kaleidescape: For the Movie Geek Who Has It All (February 8, 2004)

If you’ve got the cash, you can have the future today

Best Buy Nixing PDAs? (February 2, 2004)

Another sign of the slow demise of the standalone PDA

Forgotten Hope (January 25, 2004)

Making a great game (Battlefield 1942) even better

Red Hat, CPAN, and Intense, Throbbing Pain (January 22, 2004)

I suffer so you don’t have to

End of an Era (January 13, 2004)

Kodak abandons film

Movable Type 2.65 Released (December 22, 2003)

Time to upgrade

FeedDemon 1.0 Released (December 19, 2003)

A powerful new player in the RSS aggregator market

What’s Number Portability Costing You? (December 10, 2003)

Cellphone providers prove once again that they are spawns of Satan. Well, most of them, anyway.

Synaptic Makes Apt A Snap (November 10, 2003)

I’m still hacking away on Red Hat 9 as a desktop OS for my home PC, even though Red Hat’s CEO says that’s a dumb thing to do. However, one thing I ran into pretty quickly with Red Hat is the limitations of the RPM package management scheme. There’s RPMs out there for just about […]

I Suppose This Is “Innovation(tm)” (November 10, 2003)

Microsoft, bringing you yesterday’s ideas today

Longhorn To Open the Era of “Replace and Defend”? (November 1, 2003)

Is Longhorn gonna blow our nice standards-based world away?

PDFCreator Makes the List (October 28, 2003)

Welcome to the club

Anyone Got a Grand I Can Borrow? (October 28, 2003)

i want it i want it i want it

MT-Blacklist 1.5 out (October 28, 2003)

Jay Allen strikes again

The Big List O’ Quality Software (October 26, 2003)

Some general recommendations for things you should check out

More Good Buzz For Tapwave (October 24, 2003)

I gotta see one of these for myself

Great Timing, Dipstick (October 22, 2003)

Aaaaaaaagh