Time Machine is the new killer feature of Mac OS X Leopard that performs an automatic backup of your machine, and the race is on in to be the first to get it using Amazon S3 to save the backups. Amazon S3 is basically unlimited storage for $0.15/GB/month. When you combine that with [...]

In the ever-growing list of cool Media Center third-party software, I ran across mcePhone (thank Apple for the camel-case) that let’s you make Skype calls right from Media Center or a Media Center Extender. Since the Xbox 360 can be a Media Center Extender, MCE+Xbox+mcePhone = VOIP on your Xbox. How do I [...]

WARNING: This blog entry is super geeky. Proceed only if you know what an “elastic computing cloud” is

This article is a little older, but I was blown away when I saw it. The Enomaly Open Source Consulting group has been able to get Windows Server 2003 running on the Amazon Elastic [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m a big fan of the feature-set being developed by the people at Mojiti. I’ve started following their blog, and today they added another innovative feature: community translation. They’ve provided an interface for users to translate all the text on the site (1117 phrases) from English to one of [...]

I’ve been waiting for a web-app like this one for a while Launched in September 2006, Mojiti is a tool for annotating video. In its most basic form, you can use it to add subtitles or captions, but it’s actually way cooler than that. It allows a community to contribute hypermedia [...]

I was scanning the image directory where Facebook keeps all the “gifts” they release, and there were a few that haven’t made it into production yet. One of them, was this icon of Mark Zuckerberg with the text “2004-2007″. Facebook started in 2004 so I can only assume that this might be on [...]

With my Xbox Media Center (XBMC) installed, I booted it up for the first time. First impression: “Wow, this boots up quickly”. It’s only takes 10 seconds from when I click the power button to the Home screen. That’s faster than my Tivo (version 1)!

Navigating around the menus with my Xbox DVD [...]

Everyone usually assumes I’m a huge gamer because I’m a Web-guy. The truth is, I never got into console gaming when I was a kid (mostly because my parents had some problem with it and would only get it for my bro and I if we were home sick). When I was just-finished [...]

I just hacked my Xbox last night and got XBMC on there, and I gotta say, “OMG! THAT’S F**KING AWESOME!”

More blogging to come, but check out some of the reasons I love it so

I ran across a little note about this phone service, jaxtr, in Wired this month. Basically, you set-up an account with them (as long as live in one of 29 countries) and they give you a widget (like the following) that lets people call you for free from their own phones.

It works just like [...]