Gadgetopia

NameFinalVote - Atom Wiki: Apparently the Echo / Atom problem is having naming issues again. Atom ran afoul os a trademark search. They're trying to pick a new name, again.

Ariel Motor Company: Dave posted about this already, sort of. His post was mostly about an electric version that someone made, but I was intrigued enough to seek out the original. This is apparently an amazing little car. The gem of the site is a video from Top Gear, where ...

AtomNameUsage - Atom Wiki: Apparently Echo the new blogging standard has changed it's name to "Atom."

Google Data APIs Overview: All your RSS are belong to Google (that joke never gets old...). GData is a new protocol based on Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0. To acquire information from a service that supports GData, you send an HTTP GET request; the service returns results as an Atom ...

Feed Crier :: RSS and Atom Feeds by instant message: Adam Kalsey needs to sleep more. Feed Crier is your instant news reader. Subscribe to any RSS feed using your AOL Instant Messenger account. Waiting for an aggregator to update is so 2005.

The FuzzyBlog :: Scott Johnson's Blog: A very good point about the new Atom / Echo / Whatever-The-Next-Name-Is spec: it will support images and other media as blog postings. This opens up a ton of issues, which Scott explains.

I noticed this morning that my Gmail inbox contained an Atom link on the left hand side. Yet another cool and easy way to keep track of your incoming gmail. I couldn't get it work correctly in SharpReader though. I assume it has something to do with the fact that ...

The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial: I saw this several years ago, but had never been able to find it again until MetaFilter posted a link today. Very cool View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in ...

Take one Ariel Atom, pull the lame GM Ecotec 4-banger out and replace it with an AC-150 Drivetrain from AC Propulsion (you remember them; they make the T-Zero) and what do you get? 0 to 60mph in 3 seconds and a ride that shows you what it must feel like ...

Action Streams: An interesting new plugin from Movable Type that will aggregate your actions from 75 different social networking services and publish them as a feed from your MT install. The Action Streams plugin is an amazing new plugin for Movable Type 4.1 that lets you aggregate, control, and share ...

SharpReader has finally reached a new version after more than a year with no updates. No major new features other than Atom support. Just a while ago, Omer van Kloeten had declared the patient dead on his blog. I know software rot when I smell it and this piece of ...

Pipes: Rewire the web: This looks insanely cool. It seems to be a system to capture feeds, manipulate them every which way to Sunday, then spit them back out. It's all done through an insanely-good DHTML interface. Pipes is an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator. Using Pipes, you can create ...

I won t argue (at least not against Deane!) that Apple s hardware is a tad more expensive than your run-o-the-mill WinTel gear Not that there aren t exceptions, but for the most part it s true. And a good example is the newly released 8-core Mac Pro, which starts out with a base ...

I want to be just like Dennis Palatov when I grow up, because he gets to build and play with some awesome machinery. Right now he's 4.5 years into his DP Cars dp1 project; currently in the process of building a prototype of the dp1. The dp1 an all-wheel ...

The guys over at SoundSpectrum gave me a free copy of G-Force Platinum, their high-end visualizer for media players. While I have no need at all for a visualizer (I always minimize my media player), I played with it for a while this morning and I can vouch for the ...

Popular Tags on Flickr Photo Sharing: I swear that some of the best photography these days is coming out of amateurs. This page on Flickr displays the keywords that people have assigned to images they've uploaded. The bigger the font size, the more times that keyword has been used. These ...