Category: Employee Thoughts

BBC is running an article about how owning a dog can increase your lifespan. They mention that having a dog around will lower blood pressure and cholesterol. This could be due to the all the walks you take your dog on. A psychologist who had input in the article even say that having any pet…

The University of Wisconsin – Madison has setup base in the south pole. They call it the ‘IceCube Neutrino Observatory’. They will be observing neutrino collisions and working with massive amounts of data. To help them out they’ve setup 2 XServe RAIDs, one will hold the data and the other will act as a backup…

I just wanted to make a followup post to Ed’s previous post. This poor customer had brought in a “iPod” and was wondering why it wasn’t working. Well, it was a complete fake! It was probably made quite cheaply in sold on eBay for the price of a real Apple iPod Nano. So here’s a…

While looking around on Digg this afternoon I found a neat application called Packet Garden. The applications builds a world that has plants and terrestrial formations on it. These represent the network traffic of your computer. Different colored plants represent different types of applications that access the network. For example instant messaging and VoIP programs…

So far, we’ve had one of the warmest and driest winters on record. Today, however, there is a Winter Storm alert in effect, and we’re expecting 6” – 10” of snow, with up to an inch and a half of ice. To most of us, this is great news. We could still salvage several more…

I am not sure if Task List was the best name for this application. I think something like Homework Manager would have been more appropriate, but either way this is a nice application for all Mac-using students. The application is free and open source which is really nice. I did notice a couple bugs and…

Consider this a friendly holiday reminder about your Apple (or other lithium-ion) batteries. If you’re giving an iPod or Apple notebook this holiday season you may want to consider including this link in the card: apple.com/batteries. Following the iPod and notebook battery instructions linked off that page can help the new Apple product retain as…

I stumbled upon a site called FreewareOSX this afternoon. It catalogs tons of free software available for the Mac. They break it down into sections and give a little description of what each application does. Here’s some of my recommendations: Audio/Video: Flip4Mac VLC CenterStage Communications: Skype Thunderbird Internet/P2P: Azureus Camino Flock Fugu Mozilla FireFox Transmission…

Just read this on TUAW, a website called MacSanta is offering up some really cool software at a discounted price. Some pieces of software that I thought were really great are: Yojimbo Audio Hijack Pro SpamSieve Podcast Maker Sandvox Check out MacSanta.com for more information and good deals on software!

Just recently a website released some videos of a guy blending various products. He uses things like marbles, food, tools, electronics and other household items. You’d be surprised at the aftermath when blending such items. Most are turned into dust or soup-like substances! In this video they blend an iPod. In the end the iPod…