Best smart phones, other than the iPhone

Here are my picks for what smart phones have the best features and are worthy of your attention. Most can be purchased for below four hundred dollars, unlocked. Sorted by yours truly, by interestingness.

Nokia N80

Showstoppers; Symbian OS, 802.11g WiFi, VoIP …

Test open source operating systems from your browser

The folks over at oszoo.org have made it incredibly easy to try out new operating systems, right from you browser! It utilizes Java, QEMU and VLC to send the images directly to you browser. Just pick your operating system, keyboard mapping and your on your way. Pretty …

Taking the OLPC operating system for a test

The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project has received my interest almost since its conception in 2005 and now I have been able to test out the OS thoroughly heres my thoughts.

The OLPC OS's GUI (Sugar) is well, different but in the good kind of way. Applications are …

Heterochromia Iridis

Heterochromia (also known as a heterochromia iridis or heterochromia iridium) is an eye condition in which one iris is a different color from the other (complete heterochromia), or where part of one iris is a different color from the remainder (partial heterochromia). …

Ratatouille: from pest to chef

After catching the el' cheapo matin

GrandCentral: first impression + invites

I have received a invitation to GrandCentral, Google's newest acquisition. Basically GrandCentral allows you to forward your incoming calls to all of your phones, so you can pick up any of your phones. A more complicated explanation instructs you to set-up a number …

Reasons you have to love Japan

• The food!

What's better than the first bite of fresh sushi?

• The cities are cleaner than you are!

For a city of Tokyo's size (about 12.6 million) the streets seem incredibly clean. When your the person getting the sidewalk dirty instead of vice versa you will get …

New geeky lamp

I got my hands on a used (new to me) magnifier lamp. I believe its a LSM-182 from the results of a google search. Its great for those damn microscopic screws you can't seem to get.

Flickr sit! Good Flickr.

Awhile back I sent a complaint comment to the Flickr staff about their neglected Mac Flickr Uploadr which at the time was not even a Universal Binary even though the Intel Macs had been out for about 2 years now. A funny and unexpected little thing happened they …

Forwarding GNOME via SSH

Connect to your Linux computer remotely without needing to take the slow VNC route yet, still having a GUI to work with. This quick and painless tutorial will show how to forward your GNOME session from your Linux box to another computer, via SSH and X11 Forwarding. I …

Weekend hack: Portable DVD Player

I decided to dive into a fresh hack this weekend involving a partly broken portable DVD player and quite a bit of free time. In hopes of creating an cheap external LCD monitor. Starting off with an RCA DRC612N portable DVD player looking somewhat like the photo to the …

Flower Power!

Todays desktop, the featured wallpaper is named Purple Flowers and is downloadable. Download it here.

Todays application, Twitterrific is todays featured application it allows you to update you Twitter right from you Macs desktop without bothering with the …

First look: iPhone system files

The iPhone really is running OS X, big surprise! After downloading the iPhone restore image (93Mb) from Apple you will find that after you change the file extension to .zip and extracting it. You will find two .dmg archives tucked inside. One .dmg that is password …

New tutorial coming soon

I've been writing up a new tutorial on how too Forward Gnome via SSH as an alternative to slow VNC connections. From my experiences this is faster than VNC because it draws the GUI locally. The tutorial will be finished hopefully by tomorrow. Looks cool huh? :-)

EDIT: …

New apple product, a tablet?

Hmmm. What could this be? Looking through various Apple patents I had found something that had caught my eye. It looks like a tablet computer and upon further investigation could this possibly be a patent for a Mac tablet? I believe it is! If you look at the last page …

My favorite dashboard widgets

Here is my list of nine widgets that I use almost every day. They help me increase my productivity, view important statistics and some just to waste some time. Some of them are included by default in Mac OS X Tiger most of them aren't though. Go ahead and take a …

Happy 4th of July

I will be resuming normal posting as of

Strolling on the moon

Here is a short video of the Apollo 17 crew singing and goofing around on the Moon. I don't believe they could last long on American Idol though. When do you believe I should start planning a visit? When can I build my Martian estate?

View it here

Connect to your Mac remotly

For anyone who owns more than one Apple computer, the thought of controlling two or more machines at the same time is surely something many people think of. Despite any previous assumptions you may have had, the steps necessary to control two or more Apple computers …

Google Apps: initial impressions

Having recently set-up Google Apps for all of my domain names including infectedproject.com. I found it fit to give a short review on my initial impressions. Google Apps is a set of web-based applications built for collaboration. Email, Calender, Documents & …