This is a couple days old, but it looks like Tapwave is now officially out of business: We are sorry to inform you that the Zodiac business was discontinued and service and support are no longer available as of July 25th 2005. We thank you for your past interest and support and apologize for any inconvenience that this may have... (more)
July 2005 Archives
From Kevin Devin’s In the Trenches podcast, I heard about a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) server package called Uniform Server. I’ve spend a couple days playing with it and confirmed this is really cool. Basically you get an assembled package in a Zip file. Just extract the Zip into a location of your choice and run start.bat to start... (more)
I’ve been having fun with Yahoo! Music Unlimited, an inexpensive music subscription service that is currently in beta. Unfortunately my stinking Creative Zen Touch is still waiting for a firmware upgrade to be compatible with these subscription services. The good news this week: Pocket Tunes v3.1 has added Windows Media DRM support for subscription stores, including Yahoo’s! This afternoon I... (more)
As many suspected, today it was announced that Michael Waltrip won’t race for DEI (Dale Earnhardt Inc) next year. I’ve always rooted for Michael to do well; he’s such a great spokesman for the sport and is really generous with his time for the fans. My daughters have a fledgling interest in NASCAR (thanks to my brainwashing); the one who... (more)
Continuing with my theme of improving Yahoo! Local, I really wanted an easier way to save the address information I found, preferably in something portable like the vCard format. It still has a few rough edges, but I created a solution with a bookmarklet that connects to a CGI script on my server. Clicking the bookmarklet from any Yahoo! Local... (more)
My friend Chris IM’d me this morning to share the good news…it looks like the NHL is going to be open for business for the 2005 system. On the one hand it’s hard to feel sorry for either side here (“millionaires fighting with billionaires”), but as a San Jose Sharks fan I’m glad to see that they’ll be back on... (more)
