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In the midst of the Apple Storm yesterday, I completely forgot that I got an update for the Google Gears Firefox extension (now known simply as “Gears”) - the update that makes it compatible with Firefox 3.
I still have a shortlist of extensions that won’t work with FF3, but this was the big one; for [...]

We’re canceling cable this week, at home, and we won’t be getting satellite. After consuming media throughout a black coaxial cable for 20 years, I think we’re just about at that point where we can consume any video we want to without it.
A few caveats: we’re not a household that spends 4 hours a day [...]

First, we got ethernet connections all over the office. Then we got wireless at home. (Then IT stopped freaking out and installed wireless at work.) Then we found lots of useful wifi hotspots. Then came cellular broadband.
There aren’t many places in the urban sphere anymore where we can’t get a speedy, reliable connection to the [...]