Category Archives: remainders

Aurora is a free digital alarm clock for Mac that integrates with both iTunes playlists or ElGato’s EyeTV. It is highly configurable and features such nifty features as a sleep timer, support for an Apple Remote and volume fade-up. This sure will help me out for those early sessions at Macworld this year. (via Lifehacker)

Ben Stein makes a compelling argument from a conservative point of view for raising taxes on the rich. Heresy you say Mr. Rightwing? Well, Warren Buffett agrees with him. (NYT via Kottke – Evil yet Free Subscription required)

LifeBoat is a new Mac backup application that auto syncs files and/or directories to a USB key or external drive automatically upon connection. It backs up the files to a read only DMG file that is then easy to mount and get your data from.

Idio Magazine is an interesting idea. It is a virtual flash based magazine with content that is customized to your interests.

The new Spot speakers from JBL are so retro cool that even the wires are wrapped in cloth – old school style.(via RetroThing)

Civil Netizen is a Mozilla based file transfer utility for sending files that would otherwise be to large to e-mail. Currently in beta, they are inching towards an official release with a sexy interface redesign for the Mac version. Works for Windows and Mac with a Linux version promised.

I have not used Microsoft OneNote much as I am not a very regular Windows user. That being said, here is an excellent tutorial on using it’s Note Flags feature to get your Org-fu on.

I am a big fan of Blinksale for invoicing clients for my business. Now they have added integration with Basecamp for sharing client info between the two apps. Pretty nifty!

Stikkit is a new web application that is basically like sticky notes – except these sticky notes get parsed for data. Enter a address for instance and it will automagicaly get parsed out and added to a contact section, links get added to bookmarks, etc. Looks interesting but it certainly wont replace my fave.