January 2008 Entries
If you have two or more computers in the same physical space that you want to control with a single mouse/keyboard you need "KM switch software". I've tried three products Kavoom KM -- Very Solid product. Windows only. Unfortunately it is $39.95 Synergy -- Cross platform (Windows/Linux/Mac), free and open source, but unfortunately the least capable of the three (as tends to happen with things cross platform). Input Director -- My current choice. Nearly as good as Kavoom. Windows only. Free.
Saying "everybody's talking about them" is highly subjective, but indeed, lots of people are talking about Vampire Weekend.
Describing their sound as "Upper West Side Soweto," New York City's Vampire Weekend mixes preppy, well-read indie rock with joyful, Afro-pop-inspired melodies and rhythms. Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio, Rostam Batmanglij, and Chris Tomson formed the band early in 2006, when they were finishing up their studies at Columbia University. Taking their name from a movie Koenig made during his freshman year, the band started out by playing gigs at the university's literary societies and at parties.
My only contribution to this is to...
If you read Engadget, you might have seen this yesterday. It is a video featuring the Force Dynamics 401. Funny enough, on our way to visit my brother in Toronto, we stopped at the Force Dynamics headquarters in upstate New York to check these out in person! My father was interested in the flight simulator version, which is about 85% similar to the driving version and can be converted back and forth with a little bit of work. The video demonstrates the motion much better than I could try to describe -- it needs to been seen (ideally...
You might have heard that Hasbro has finally gotten around to trying to sue the makers of Scrabulous, the incredibly popular Facebook app. As these things usually go, this is probably a mistake. Thanks to Scrabulous+Facebook suddenly millions of people are talking about Scrabble again. Take a great example from this past weekend: My parents, Emily and I were visiting my brother Kevin+family in Toronto. Over the past couple of weeks I have been playing Scrabulous with my mom and with Emily, so it was fresh in our minds when we were looking for indoor activities, it being...
Many people don't appreciate how a snap works. It is not about the fingers. A snap is your middle finger hitting the fat part of your palm. The actual snapping motion is just a way to pre-load tension on your finger and releasing it quickly. In my technique I use my ring finger to pull down on the skin on my hand to create a more flat landing pad -- a method I developed without even understanding what I was doing. If you know any Persians (Iranians) ask them to do the Beshkan for...
ffffound is basically Digg for arty images. This just brought me back -- I had this exact one and a few others as a kid, loved the colors and thought I'd share. [via ffffound]
I just bought this chair for my new office. Dan, one of the guys here was sharing his experiences with the essentially back-to-school-shopping-for-adults process involved with moving into your own company's office for the first time. He sat in "at least 10" chairs and deemed this one to be his favorite. And it was priced reasonably at $189 and the store was right around the corner, so I went for it. Now, three other people (making five of us) in an office of 16 desks all have this same chair. The power of recommendations... none of us...