Wacom Graphire4 review by PC Magazine
The Wacom Graphire4 pen tablet is elegantly designed, highly customizable, and very responsive. It’s an excellent, economical way to get more precision and control than a regular mouse provides. And if you’re interested in graphics, you could justify buying it just for the bundled software.
Getting a Custom RSS Feed Via Email
ResearchBuzz: RSS Feeds to Newsletters and Specializing the Feed
This articles highlights a couple of toools that you can use to create custom RSS feeds and then have the results emailed to you. Pretty neat. The idea is to have Feedshake scan a set of feeds for you and filter on terms you select. This gives you a custom feed. Tyhen hand that feed off to RSSFwd which reads the feed and emails it to an address you provide. A possible use here would be to create a custom filtered feed that could be distributed to a mailing list: instant newsletter.
YADL – Yet Another Digital Library
The project is called the Open Content Alliance.
In Challenge to Google, Yahoo Will Scan Books – New York Times
An unusual alliance of corporations, nonprofit groups and universities plans to announce today an ambitious plan to digitize hundreds of thousands of books over the next several years and put them on the Internet, with the full text accessible to anyone.
I Need An OPML Aggreagator As a Widget
John Robb’s Weblog: Distributed Directories and OPML aggregators
It would probably be better off living as a widget on my desktop.
I get the usefulness of OPML and the directories it can create and the amazing nesting that can be accomplished, but John is right, this would really work as a desktop widget that puts the info right in my hands. I wonder how hard itwould be to do in Kapsules
Interesting Take on Collaborative Writing
Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.
Picked this up via Ehub. From the folks who brought us Backpack comes a shared collaborative space. It looks like a basic text box, but contains some neat features that remind me of a basic wiki. In fact it shares a lot in common with a wiki, but it is more focused on text and collaboration.
Update: There is a pretty good review of Writeboard at Soultion Watch.
Kodak Release PC Free Digital Camera
COnsumers can upload directly from the camera for free from home wifi or use T-Mobile for $4.99/mo. It is easy to imagine T-Mobile adding hotspots at Disneyworld and folks can upload pics directly from the hapiest place on earth.
BetaNews | Kodak Unveils PC-Free Digital Camera
Kodak earlier this week unveiled a wireless digital camera, and announced a partnership with T-Mobile Hotspot that would allow the unit to e-mail pictures without the need for a computer.
AMD, Radio Shack Team to Bring $299 PC To US
AMD brings bare-bones PC to consumers – Yahoo! News
Radio Shack plans to start selling a low-cost alternative to the personal computer starting Sunday.The $299 machine, dubbed the Personal Internet Communicator, was designed by Advanced Micro Devices to access the Internet and perform basic computing tasks.
Getting Clerkship Info From a Blog
This is interesting. basically the author(s) setup a post for each circuit and are allowing anonymous posters to comment with information about each circuit as it becomes available. Currently, posts most list which judges are scheduling interviews, but we should expect ot see info about hiring soon enough. This is a nexcellent example of leveraging the power of a blog to gather and disseminate information. It would be cooler if there were RSS feeds for the comments.
Students Get Campus Info Via Cellphone
North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey!
When Travis Misurell arrived for freshman orientation at Montclair State University last month, he received the ultimate welcome gift.School officials handed him a $250 Motorola cellphone – and told him to use it.
Not for phone calls, but to tap into a multitude of “channels” packed with news and updates on campus happenings.
Roll Your Own Search Engine With Rollyo
This is intersting. Great potential.
O’Reilly Radar > Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine
Rollyo affords anyone the ability to roll their own Yahoo!-powered search engine, attenuating results to a set of up to 25 sites. And while the searchrolls (as they’re called) you create are around a particular topic (e.g. Food and Dining), they are also attached to a real person (e.g. Food and Dining is by Jason Kottke). The result is a topic-specific search created and maintained by a trusted source.