Do people really need instructions on how to wash their hands in a public restroom?
Techspansion closing up shop -
I was very sorry to read that Techspansion will be closing; VisualHub is a great do-it-all video conversion application. I hope the developer chooses to release it as open source or find someone else to continue working on it as it is a great product.
Palin Brushing Up On Foreign Policy At Epcot -
Candidate for VP seen talking back to audio-animatronics.
Great article from the Onion.
ThuleRoadTrip is a flash-based version of the Oregon Trail - for the 21st century. Very cool!
This is an interesting (and geeky) scan of a 1979 brochure from a division of Walt Disney Productions intended to sell the idea of a monorail to cities.
Google has (pre) announced Chrome, a web browser built on top of existing technologies, like Webkit (the “guts” of Safari) as well as some elements from Firefox. It will be interesting to see what it can do - I didn’t think we needed another web browser, but I’m sure Google has some innovative ideas.
MobileMe: Another free extension -
While I thankfully haven’t had too many problems with MobileMe, I have had a few sync and other issues crop up here and there. Apple has again taken the unusual (for them, anyway) step of acknowledging the rather serious problems that have occurred since the service launch and are extending everyone’s paid subscription by another 60 days - even if you already got the 30 day extension. It is a nice gesture if nothing else, but I hope they work out all the issues sooner rather than later.
If you’ve ever been interested in the Getting Things Done methodology, 43folders has one of the best 90 second descriptions of how it works.
I’ve wondered why the Kindle doesn’t show you the time at the top or the bottom of the screen while you are reading. I just discovered today an easy workaround to get the current time from any screen on Kindle: Press search, and type in @time, then press enter. A popup with the current time will appear over whatever you are reading; you can then close the window and resume whatever it was you were doing.
GrandDialer is a new app for dialing phone calls from your iPhone and make the caller ID appear to come from your GrandCentral telephone number.