Two companies that I actually like, but are more secretive than most, now share a chromosome. What this will mean for the computing industry is yet to be seen, but with Amazon’s entry into the storage market and Apple’s flailing attempts at going Web 2.0, this should certainly be an interest Judas moment, given Microsoft’s bail-out of the fruit a few years back.
Category: Asides
MacUpdate launches MacZot-like service called “MacUpdate Promo”
MacUpdate is now offering a daily service providing discounts on software to MacUpdate members. The service is similar to MacZot or Woot — sites offering a large daily discount on various current hardware or software.
Gorgeous Spanish pharmaceutical posters from the 60-70s
A Flickr set gem, this collection of 85 posters puts modern pharmaceutical art to shame and serves as a great design and inspiration resource.
Finally — track new co.mments by email!
Now instead of relying on individual bloggers to email-update enabled their blogs, co.mments will take care of the work for you — on any blog! Ever want to get follow-up notifications on responses to comments you’ve left on someone’s blog? Or just wanted to find out about new activity on a given blog post? Well, now you can. Via email.
Performancing now does MySpace
Those upstart folks at Performancing have released a version of their blog editor that works with MySpace. This is also apparently one of the first add-ons using their own PFF extension system.
Plazes for Mobile
Had dinner with Felix from Plazes the other night — always good dining company. An exciting recent development for them: looks like they’ve also publicly launched Plazer for Mobile! Now if only they supported the Blackberry… c’mon guys, Google’s doing it! Why can’t you?
Trolltech’s open source “Green Phone”
Raven pointed me to Trolltech’s exciting open source Green Phone project built on top of Linux with developer APIs for accessing GPRs location data. The possibilities of a phone like this in the hands of open hardware hackers is immense; the question is, will the carriers allow it?
Slick DesktopTwo will never fly
Engadget gets some competition
Looks like the Crunchempire is spreading out, entering the crowded gadget arena. Meanwhile, GigaOmniMedia gets a facelift and a tabsplosion.
Hex color grabbers
Cris Pearson just pinged me about the aptly named Hex Color Picker. This one might actually replace my former color picker of choice, iPick. You might also consider exColor, a super-simple and small tool to quickly grab hex colors with the magnifying glass.
Factory Joe 