getURL works in all browsers, but uses a more complicated communication system when sending data to your Captivate file from the LMS. It also makes a lot of clicking sounds.

Lucky Day – one of the best shorts I’ve seen. Ever.

Nerf Infrared Auto-Cannon – Brilliant.

Baylor Rugby Alumni Festival – Work (and life) is keeping me away, but should be another awesome event.

Just take an iPhone 4 – my thoughts exactly. So nice, now that I have HD video capability and a better camera in my pocket. I still use my DSLR for sporting events and some other shots, but I love the iPhone because it’s an all-in-one, for almost everyone and everything.

MiFi of Your Dreams – not exactly, but it’s close. I could do without the steep $150 entry price. However, $40 a month for an unlimited “wherever I am” hotspot? Not too shabby.

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole – Brilliant and funny. (via Gruber)

‘First to Do It’ vs. ‘First to Do It Right’ – solid explanation of the difference between adding features for the sake of having features, and adding features that let you do something your customer/user wants and/or needs to do. Same could be said for a lot of websites.

World Cup Preview – Short Edition – Short, funny and fairly accurate summaries of each of the 32 teams.

“While compiling this preview, I forgot about Greece and had to look them up when I realized I was one country short.”

The Lame iPad Camera Connection Kit – I’m still shocked there’s not an iPhoto Lite for the iPad.

More Adobe accessibility screw-ups – why? Seems I ask that a lot about Adobe these days.

The zone is on Mobile Operating Systems (cleverly named, the MOSH Pit).

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250,000 on Facebook Find Owner of Lost Camera – one of the great things about social media is shown here, when it’s used to help people. (via Palko)

Ten Things You Need to Stop Tweeting About – (via Philip)

Laptop Steering Wheel Desk – Read the reviews…great fun (via Aaron)

10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9 – Good stuff. Improving as a CMS.

The Simplest & Most Efficient iPhone Stand – brilliant (via MinimalMac)

Microsoft Store Breaks Out in Song – First, that is pathetic retail store behavior. Two, what a horrendous song. (via DF)

Camino 2 – Try it.

Daring Fireball: Buzz Andersen on the Purportedly Upcoming ‘Twitter Peek’ Dedicated Twitter Device.

(via Karen)

I had started a post a few months back outlining all of the things I use daily: my desk, software, hardware, backup plan, music library, etc.

Then I realized that it would be a gigantic post and my setup would probably change by the time I finished writing it! So, instead, I’m making it a series. I hope I get some feedback about what I use and how I use it so I can become more efficient and hopefully save some money. A series will also make it easier to update in the future.

Just as a disclaimer, there might be affiliate links on a few items I profile specifically (to help raise money for charity and keep this site running).

Here’s the order I plan to post:

1. Hardware
2. Software
3. Backup Plan
4. Network
5. Desk & Office
6. Music & Fun

(via LonelySandwich and DF)

Most of my readers probably know this one, but maybe this will help someone.

On your smartphone (Blackberry, iPhone, etc.), you can hit space twice to get a period, space, and automatically capitalized next word.

Enjoy!

**Disclaimer**
I am not responsible for those of you without a smartphone. I simply pity you. In addition, if you develop an addiction to this feature and are frustrated that it doesn’t work in Word, Pages or your email program, I am not responsible for the resulting carnage.

The iPhone (and iPod Touch) only have 128 MB of RAM, and WebKit can use a lot of memory. When memory gets tight, the system sends low memory warnings to running applications, telling them to purge what they can. Eventually, the system will start forcing apps to quit in order to free more memory. That’s why sometimes when you relaunch Safari, it remembers the URLs, but has to reload the content for all of your open web pages — that’s what happens when Safari is asked to quit while it’s running in the background.

Full article: Daring Fireball: In the Background

A First Look at Googles New Phone

I didn’t know about T-Mobile’s lame 3G coverage. We’ll see how fast they ramp that up before I jump.