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links for 2008-06-28
Saturday, June 28th, 200899 Rental.com - Track the $0.99 iTunes Movie of the Week Tracks the 99¢ rental at the iTunes store, just in case... (tags: tool) No Country for Raising Arizona | The Cleverest "Very interesting how similar “No Country for Old Men” is to “Raising Arizona.” See for yourself…" (tags: humor film article)
Google Notifier Install
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Good job google. I like the install process for Google Notifier (i.e. drag app from disk image to where ever I want). All your other applications' installers suck. Save your crappy installation program for clueless windows users. Let us install by dragging and dropping.
Sophist
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008by Plato Translated by Seth Benardete I'm pretty excited to be moving on to Aristotle.
Hulk and The Incredible Hulk
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Is it just me or is it kinda funny that the preview for The Incredible Hulk starts out with "Marvel has done it again!" (Hulk)
iPhone Camera
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008I've seen a few people online whining about the 2 megapixel camera on the iPhone. I'm not sure how big the sensor is (I only looked at the specs page) but there is actually a maximum number of pixels you want for a digital camera sensor. Learn more at 6mpixel.org
iStat Menus
Friday, June 6th, 2008iStat Menus just got updated yesterday. It is a free utility that puts various tools in the menubar. I don't know if their clock/calendar is a new feature or not, but I just discovered it, and it is awesome. I have occasionally found myself needing a calendar, and didn't want to ...
Acorn vs. Pixelmator
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Acorn and Pixelmator are two competing image editing applications. They offer 90% of what I want to do with Photoshop for around 10% of the price. Acorn has a more generous free trial which allows you to do everything you want with the application for as long as you want. ...
One Month to Live
Monday, June 2nd, 2008by Kerry & Chris Shook This was a pretty solid book. It had a little bit of the trappings of pop-christianity, but at the root was a solid message: How would your priorities change if you knew that you had only 30 days to live?
On Grace and Justice
Saturday, May 31st, 2008I think there is a popular thought that goes something like: "Yes, God is just. However, He is only just because He offers us Grace." We need to be aware that God is just and He would be just even if He were not gracious. I thank God that He is ...