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Getting THINGS Done on a Mac

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If you manage a lot of To-Do Items, and the integrated To Do system in Mail and iCal just isn’t cutting the mustard, you may want to try out Things. It’s an implementation of the Getting Things Done system and looks slicker than the free iGTD.

iCal synchronization and event capturing in Mail seem to be features that are in the works. This is worth keeping an eye on.

January 7, 2008 Posted by | Mac, Software | Comments Off

55-Second Paper Airplane Flight in New York

January 7, 2008 Posted by | General, Video | Comments Off

RSS-ify a Non-RSS Webpage

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Being an RSS-junkie, I rarely keep track of any website that does not have an RSS feed. Dapper provides a way for me to create an RSS feed for such sites. It works sort of like Safari’s Dashboard web clips.

Very handy.

January 7, 2008 Posted by | How-To, Software | Comments Off

Ten Billion Trillion Trillion Carat Diamond

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From Cellar – Image of the Day:

Astronomers discovered the largest diamond of all times in space. The weight of the precious stone reportedly makes up ten billion trillion trillion carats or five million trillion trillion pounds).

The space diamond is virtually an enormous chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 kilometers in diameter. The stone is located at a distance of 50 light years from Earth, in the Constellation Centaurus.

Scientists believe that the diamond is the heart of an extinct star that used to shine like the Sun. Astronomers have already dubbed the space diamond as Lucy in a tribute to the Beatles song ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.’

January 7, 2008 Posted by | Oddities, Science and Technology | 2 Comments

   

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