Must be all those 1-800-SUICIDE crisis lines, because Sweden officially now has more cellphone lines than people. As of this past March the country officially had 9.07 million cellphone subscriptions and only 8.98 million people, giving them a better than perfect penetration rate of 100.1% (embarrassingly, the US only just recently passed the 50% mark, though it also means we’ll get 50.1% less brain cancer than them).
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July 09, 2004
Sweden has more cellphones than people
Must be all those 1-800-SUICIDE crisis lines, because Sweden officially now has more cellphone lines than people. As of this past March the country officially had 9.07 million cellphone subscriptions and only 8.98 million people, giving them a better than perfect penetration rate of 100.1% (embarrassingly, the US only just recently passed the 50% mark, though it also means we’ll get 50.1% less brain cancer than them).
July 06, 2004
The Ring Plug
Brilliant. Simply Brilliant. Garnering an honorable mention in ID Magazine's Annual Design Review, the Ring Plug is a standard powercord with a molded ring for easy pulling. This is for all you out there who think all the good ideas have already been taken. This, patented and well licensed, could be the next paperclip.
via apartmenttherapy
July 05, 2004
Music Genre Test
Like a lot of you, I use the Genre tags in my MP3s to organize my music. But more than half the time, there's just no consensus as to what Genre a given song really is. "Trance," "Progressive," "Lo-Fi", "Trip-Hop," "House" and so on. The list goes on as does the debate. Speaking of which...are you ready for a little test? On the next page, I've taken 30 second clips from a few different songs.
July 01, 2004
Know your IP
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If you're not at least THIS geeky,
stop reading now.
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Ok, now that's done...
If you're like me, you probably have occasion to need to know your outside IP address. You know, for peer-to-peer gaming, FTP among friends, sharing gigabytes of legal videos and fully licensed music...
This nice (and free) utility puts a little globe in your menubar that displays both your outside and inside IP addresses. Makes me wanna soil my pocket protector...
June 30, 2004
Essential Mac Utility--WinSwitch
Fast User Switching is a great Mac feature that lets two or more people easily and securely share one machine. But it requires having your entire name in the MenuBar, which can eat up way too much valuable real estate. Just load this little diddy (freeware) and...problem solved.
June 29, 2004
VideoPod...gimme, gimme, gimme
Mobinote DVX-POD 7010 at Designtechnica
Finally, a competent and elegant looking video version of the iPod if ever I have seen one...7-inch color LCD (720x480), 20GB HD, Video and Audio recording AND playback, MPEG-4, DivX 3.11, 4 and 5, QuickTime 6, WMV, WMA, MP3, JPEG, GIF, BMP...Whew!
Oh, AND it can also record TV video directly into MPEG-4. Think TIVO in the palm of your hand. At $599, it's priced just a c-note over the top-of-the-line iPod. Available this fall. Or shall we say, "in time for X-mas?"
June 27, 2004
Zip-Linq Retractable Cables
Sure, the little animation is uber-goofy. But like a 5-year old amped up on half a box of Little Debbies, I just can't get enough of these roll-ups. They're about the same price as any other cable ($8-10) and take up a fraction of the space. Team up the Treo sync cable with the Use-Your-Treo-As-A-USB-Drive software and that's one more thing you can show off.
It is, after all, ALL about what you can show off...isn't it?
Use your Treo as a USB drive
I'm coming to realize that the real art of living out of a suitcase is ensuring that everything you carry does more than one thing. For example, my lovely wife MeiMei both cooks and cleans... Anyway, this is a fantastic piece of software that turns your Treo into one of those ubiquitous flash USB drives. Also lets you drag files/movies/mp3s to your Treo without even having to sync. Yummy.
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