MacDork :)

I just added Prowl Notifications to the blog (throttled, of course).

Awesome.

If you don’t know about dropbox yet, then go here and get a free (2GB) account.

Then, after you’ve got it set up and know a few things about it, get the beta here; it supports LAN syncing, which is what I’ve been after for a LONG, long time.

At one point, I had three people and 5 machines all trying to download the same 10 files that someone posted into a shared dropbox folder. As you can imagine, this took forever and was hugely inefficient. With LAN sync, the 10 files will download from the internet only once, and then the other machines will all update via the local network.

Sweet!

TUAW’s running a story on how the boxee devs managed to get around hulu’s (feeble) attempt at blocking boxee from accessing hulu.

I was more than a little irritated at hulu at first about how they were going after boxee, especially since the ads were still being viewed, and there was really no difference between me watching content on my AppleTV vice a computer+browser, but Brian Brushwood made a GREAT point on TWiT this week: hulu’s not really trying to block boxee, they’re just doing the absolute minimum required to sate the content owners.

Their goal is to keep the content owners at bay just long enough to win the premium streaming content market. Once they win, they can go back to the bargaining table to renegotiate their contracts and start to really push for some of these restrictions to be lifted.

That said, it seems that boxee’s arrived at a solution that’s unbeatable. For hulu to block boxee, they’d have to cut off all of the firefox users, which is probably a significant share of their customers. Given that hulu’s not quite a household name, and that their primary audience are the web cognisanti, I’m willing to bet that their firefox numbers are higher than average.

Either way: cheers to boxee!

Offbeat Guides:
What makes us different?
Offbeat Guides are the first travel guides that you create online using the most current travel information available on the internet for over 30,000 travel destinations. These personalized travel guides give you all of the information that traditional travel guides include, plus more. For the first time, you can personalize your guide based on your travel dates, destination, and personal travel interests.

Psst…. over here.  Yeah, you.  If you’re on a Mac, click in the content frame, press the print key (<command>+p) to get the print dialog and then click the “Save As PDF” button.

You can do this for each of the sections you want.

Don’t tell. 

Pass it on.

Side View Generator:
Whoa.  This is crazy cool.

iPodNN | Apple greenlights third-party iPhone browsers:
Apple greenlights third-party iPhone browsers
A slate of new third-party web browsers has unexpectedly appeared at the App Store, reports indicate.

Fantastic.  I hope this leads to a mobile version of Firefox that supports addons.

Woot. 
Dan Benjamin discovered that the Labs tab is finally available to those domains that couldn’t get access to it.  One of my domains had it, another didn’t. 

Dan Benjamin – Labs Love At Last:
The Google Labs feature allows users to enable new features and fixes, including great improvements to IMAP functionality, like better folder (aka label) management, auto-expunge control, and more.

The main thing I wanted was the ability to hide the “All Mail” label in my IMAP accounts — now I can :’)

Here’s how it used to look.

And here’s how it looks now.

The main thing I like is that you can collapse sidebars you don’t use.  As with most Google updates, it’s pretty non-offensive, and welcome.

Official Google Reader Blog: Square is the new round.:
Google is all about speed, both under the hood as well as in the user experience. So, in order to make Reader act and feel more speedy and responsive, we’ve removed some visual clutter, simplified some features and given everything a bit more breathing room. Out with the old rounded corners, drop shadows and heavily saturated colors — in with a softer palette, faster components and a fresh new look.

Wow, seriously? Who thinks up this stuff?  This is amazing!  Why would you want it?  Well, as the LifeHacker article points out, it’s great for super fast text entry with a reaaaaaal keyboard :D

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