Things That Beep

Other than Apple’s blatant rip-off of my own iPad product from 2006, I (in agreement with most of the free world) was fairly underwhelmed by what Steve Jobs unveiled today.

Let’s face it, the iPad probably won’t go down in the annals of history of computing as one of Apple’s more half-baked ideas, like the Apple Lisa, eWorld, the Macintosh Portable, the Puck Mouse and Apple TV. But it still could.
The inspiration for the Apple iPad’s keyboard.

Little known …

I have a lot of free time now that I’ve pretty much given writing anything for this blog, so I’ve been looking for new ways to spend my time and money while amusing myself. For the past six months I’ve been oddly fascinated with the idea of getting a Playstation 3. I’m not a big console gamer, but since the PS3′s recent price drop it’s now at least somewhat in the same spending category as a stand-alone Blu-ray DVD player.

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About every four or five months it seems that I’m faced with a Mozilla Firefox update that, inevitably, renders one of my favorite plugins, Adsense Notifier, completely useless. It’s a clever and wonderful little plug-in that simply checks your Adsense earnings every 20 minutes or so and displays the results in the status bar of your Firefox browser. It’s a heck of a lot easier than logging into your Adsense account every hour to see how you’re doing for the day, week or even month. I’m kind of surprised Google hasn’t released some of their own Adsense …