techSOAP

How much backyard would you need to live off of it?

Via One Block Off the Grid

Location based services are going to explode

I can't wait to see how the new iPhone app store from Apple is going to revolutionize location based services. I write this after having just updated my Twitter profile with my current latitude and longitude with a tap in the twitterific iphone app. Stay tuned this is going to get interesting.

iPhone from Apple ANNOUNCED today....

Some details from TUAW.com

• Single front button.
• 3.5 inch widescreen display featuring the highest pixel density ever shipped in a portable device.
• 2 megapixel camera.
• iPod dock.
• Proximity sensor which switches between modes and screen orientation based on how a user holds it.
• 11.6 mm thick.
• Syncs with iTunes
• GSM/EDGE
• Wifi
• Bluetooth
• Cinglar only.
• Visual voicemail - shows a list of your voicemails like you see a list of emails.
• Error correcting on-screen keyboard.
• Gestural interface
• Mail.
• Safari.
• Google Maps.
• Widgets.
• Switches seamlessly between EDGE and WiFi.
• Free Yahoo! IMAP email to all iPhone customs.
• GPS
• 5 hour video battery life.
• 16 hour audio battery life.

The 4GB costs $499 and the 8GB $599 (includes a 2 year contract). It is shipping in June.

Increasing Productivity in 88 simple steps....

I am smack dab in the middle of a book that has begun to change my entire workday.  The book is from Gina Trapani,  one of the writers of lifehacker.com.  the book contains 88 lifehacks to improve your life as it relates to the technology that so many of us have come to rely on day in and day out.

I must say that using this as a follow up book to Getting Things Done has systematically begun to change my every day work life.  Chad over at tech2point0 has joined me in this search for sanity in our daily lives that are flooded with information from so many different streams.

click here to purchase the book from Amazon.com.

Riya recognizes you and your friends by face....

The new online photo sharing site Riya, has takenFlickr and Yahoo photos a step further.  Not only is it free and virutally unlimited, it can recognize faces.  You do a little training and setting up the tags for the people in the pics, but then it can go through all of your photos and tag them with the people’s names, based on their face in the picture! 

Heck, try a search for your name.  Here’s a search on my first name.  BTW, none are me. 

They just started their public Beta check it out!
 

Windows on a Mac - the contest is OVER!!!

It's over, folks, and the rumors, screenshots, and videos all appear to be true. Windows XP will soon be able to be installed on several models of Intel Macs and you'll be able to dual-boot between the two operating systems. From the contest site:

Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution.

"narf2006" and "blanka", the two programmers who claimed a few days ago to have cracked this nut, appear to have written their own bootloader which allows you to select which OS you want to boot from. Screenshots here.

MacRumors is reporting that the solution will soon be available for download and that it will work with the 17" and 20" iMacs, the MacBook Pro, and the new Mac mini.

 

this is fromTUAW

Microsoft says "Stomp" your email away or Dance Dance Revolution!!

Would you rather stomp your foot to delete your email? …and then practice your Dance Dance Revolution skills at your desk with no one knowing.  Come one you know you’ve played it.

check this article about Microsoft Research’s efforts to expand User Interface to include your feet.

Southern California is overrun with brrreeeport

I can’t believe all the brrreeeport that I keep seeing everywhere.  Its all brrreeeport everywhere.  I can't stand it.   I am laughing my brrreeeport off.  I can't wait to see what the brrreeeport is all about.  Got brrreeeport? 

check Google’s Blog Search

Technorati’s findings