Software, toys, gadgets and computers
Callwave recently released a widget to provide free visual voicemail. The idea seems to be that you configure your account to do a conditional call forwarding to CallWave’s servers. From there, the widget provides access to the website to allow you to view your voicemail.
Clever.
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I’m trying to help someone in academia buy a unix workstation. The task involves intensive number crunching on very large (14 GB) data sets using packages like Maple, MatLab and SAS.
Here is a quote they got from their computing department:
There are two main UNIX servers:
- Sun Microsystems V40z with 2 Dual Core 64-bit AMD 852 CPU’s and 16GB RAM
running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (64-bit).- Sun Microsystems V40z with 4 Dual Core 64-bit AMD 880 CPU’s and 32GB RAM
running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (64-bit).Can you translate the above into English?
I appreciate any help.
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Simply the best messaging client ever.
I finally got around to looking at Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard site. The videos are interesting.
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I was reading Presentation Zen, when I happened upon this James Blount/Apple homage:
I’m not too sure what to think.
When I’m typing a lot into Mac OS X address book, sometimes the focus flips from the field I’m in directly into the Note field. It’s very annoying.
Anyone else have that happen?
Since I don’t get to watch broadcast/cable TV much, I’m getting my fix from my father’s new DISH Network. Besides the obvious debut of hard alchohol adds, one for the Samsung BlackJack caught my eye. Perhaps it’s because I’m planning on switching services to Cingular.
But since I set up the 802.11, I just popped open my computer and searched my newsfeeds. This review came up. Hmm Windows Mobile and crap for battery life? No thanks.
I think my first choice is still the Treo 680 to replace my Tungsten T|X which I hoped would be my last PalmOS model until they transition to Linux. I’m still not enthusiastic about giving up 1/3 of my resolution and the 802.11 though.
Sent this to some of my friends two weeks ago…
I don’t know if I remembered to mention this but Adobe CS3 is in public beta. It requires your Adobe CS2 authentication to use past two days.
One big thing is that this version is native on Intel Macintoshes. According to the latest benchmarks it now runs slightly faster in the Mac OS X operating system than on Windows (same hardware).
Here is an article on some of the new features. One big one for us photographers is the new way of doing black and whites.
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iLounge has a great overview of their site’s resources.
Their Free iPod Book and Buyer’s Guide are my favorite because they’re drool-ready and a free download. Remember when this stuff was published in book (and later magazine) and you had to pay for it?
I’ve been using them since I got my first iPod in 2001—they were iPod Lounge before Apple laid down the law(yers)—and they’ve gotten better and better. My only complaint is that I wish their RSS feed had images.
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