Geekfoolery

This Web 2.0 thing is getting more and more useful. Now here’s a web page, Media-Convert.com, that will convert almost any media file you may have–image, sound, presentation, ringtone, and others–and convert it to another format, all from a webpage. No software to download, no registration.
This is now added to the growing list of usable […]

Like you need another reason to drink beer. Good beer, of course, comes in bottles (in my case, 22 ounce bottles from Stone Brewery, but everyone has their own favorites, of course). So the question, then, is how can one take that pure moment of rathskellerian quintessence that is the “pffft” of the opening of […]

Google announced the release of a Mac version of it’s Desktop Search tool this week. It’s beta, of course, though remember that beta in the Googleverse is Gold Master Version 3.7 for most other software companies, so download away.
The thing about Google’s many services is that it’s like you’ve gotten a free pass to buffet […]

Apple’s series of “I’m a PC… and I’m a Mac” ads, if you haven’t seen them, they personify a PC and Mac the way they would look if they were, well, John Hodgeman and Justin Long. The PC’s beige box comes to life in a relatively boring brown suit and tie, with John Hodgeman’s dry […]

Another free web-based office suite has entered the fray where already Thinkfree, Zoho, Google Docs and Spreadsheets are already trying to stake out a claim in the nascent field of web-based office software. The new guy on is Peepel, and at first glance, we’ve got a word processor, a spreadsheet, a calculator, and reportedly additional […]

Day 85: Still no Zunes spotted in the wild.
But there was a very interesting announcement from EMI records this week. It’s actually from EMI and Apple, and the deal is this: You will now be able to buy EMI songs from the iTunes Music Store with no DRM. That means you can do whatever you […]