Is a balled mouse the new rotary phone?

That being said I thought I would share this goolgle search for obsolete technology.

I particularly like the wired article's section on telegraph. STOP

But what scares me is that I downloaded Firefox 3 beta for the mac a couple of weeks ago and did not have a good experience - the mac didn't seem to like it at all, with kernel panics, freezes, shutdown woes and cpu running at 50% with no apps open. I ended up doing a restore with Time Machine (which works great, by the way, and only took an hour to restore a 60 GB system; the downside to doing too many of these is that the next TimeMachine backup after a restore takes a while because it backs up everything again, taking up another 60 GB of my backup drive).

So someone with a Mac running Leopard - test Firefox 3 for me and let me know if it's safe to go in the water again.

Let me know your thoughts!

Does this move by Facebook position it to be the next Google where everything and everyone develops applications and services that allow upstarts and fringe services to piggyback on the success of the giant?

For example I used Remember the Milk for a while as a todo list but discontinued use because it was one more place to log into and manage. Recently, I came back to "rtm" and realized that it added a ton of features that lets me use the services through other technologies, which make "rtm" more useful than a paper and pencil todo list.

Of the various options for integration here are a few that I am looking at -

• Jott™ - Official Site
• Netvibes
• Twitter
• rtm Browser Bookmarklet

I am going to give "rtm" another go based on this new knowledge and let you know how it works.

I am sorry to add this extra barrier to participating in the discussion. But the comment spam became too much in the last few days which necessitated the change.

Thanks for joining the conversation.

The browser is to now, what the OS was to the late nineties, which is something that used to be cool, but now is just tech. :) I remember being psyched about Windows95, but by the time Windows98 came out, people just wanted the damn thing to work so that they could get out to the internet.

I missed much of the practical nature/reality of what he was saying until I started to play with Netvibes. Netvibes allows users to create a page that allows you to bring in the various pieces of the web that you use regularly. Thus, now instead of needing to be on a computer with a browser that has all of the preferred plugins I only need a browser and my netvibes. My plugins are any where I am.

I have not figured out the universe - ecosystem thing yet but which I think is the key to making it "social" but that would be icing on the cake. Any one else with experience with netvibes? I would like to compare notes.

Hat tip to Jason...

Then, boy, does Korea have the answer for you! Introducing the Miu Hybrid Dual PC! (HDPC)

Has time changed our reaction and/or position?

Recently, several of the blogs I read linked to the articles outlining a its practical applications, here is one such article. And I found a good description of what twitter actually does thanks to the CommonCraft Show on youtube

But I am still working on how to integrate it naturally into work flow. My best guess is this - create twitter accounts for a couple of the web logs we use to keep the campus informed of computing news and workshop information and see how many "twits" start to follow. (Thanks to Richwalsky I found a tool that will take and rss feed and create twitter tweets.)

Do we want the same for technocool?