http://www.blagosphere.org/technophilia Science, Technology, and Toys! Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:24:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, you just got home from work or school and are ready to login and run Kara, or TK w. your guild. Something does not seem right though. Your password says it does not work, or it says you are already logged in. Or you do get in and find ... http://www.blagosphere.org/technophilia/57-securing-world-of-warcraft/ This week is THE Apple event of the year.  Macworld is how the dedicated apple users start their year.  The Stevenote - Macworld's keynote address is one of the more anticipated tech events of the year.  Today was no disappointment, I think that this may have been the busiest ... http://www.blagosphere.org/technophilia/48-the-stevenote-macworld-first-impressions/ There are quite a few rumors floating around about the upcoming Macworld. Like any good lover of all things Apple I have been keeping tabs on some of them. It promises to be an interesting event to say the least. While CES is going on now, I ... http://www.blagosphere.org/technophilia/47-macworld-predictions/ In another salvo in the format war between Blu Ray and HD-DVD, Warner Bros. appears to have changed camps fully.  Warner Bros. just announced they will start releasing films only in the Blu Ray format.  They will phase out all HD-DVD by May of 2008.  The reason?  More disc sales ... http://www.blagosphere.org/technophilia/46-hd-video-wars-blu-ray-vs-hd-dvd/ RSS feeds have become a large part of the internet. They allow for management of information flow in a digestible manner. Since many sites I frequent have a feed I have ended up subscribing to many different feeds, as a result I need a newsreader app to manage ... http://www.blagosphere.org/technophilia/45-apps-i-use-vienna/ I just found out about an interesting little plugin for iTunes. It's called iConcertCal and it is a album release and concert calendar. Developed by a pair of grad students at the University of Washington in Seattle. The plugin is available for Mac OS X and Windows. It ... http://www.blagosphere.org/technophilia/44-interesting-new-itunes-plugin-iconcertcal/ Ever since I was a kid pictures have fascinated me. I started taking pictures with a film point and shoot when I was little. I've had a number of film cameras in my life and being the tech lover I am once digital cameras became available and affordable ... http://www.blagosphere.org/technophilia/43-tips-on-buying-a-dslr-camera/ Thought I'd list a bunch of commonly used keyboard shortcuts for the intel macs and os x that I've found or read about.Intel Macs use EFI instead of Open Firmware, here are some keyboard commands. You'll want to hold down the key until you see the spinny circle on ... http://www.blagosphere.org/technophilia/42-keyboard-shortcuts-for-the-mac-and-os-x/ This is the first post in what will be an on-going series of posts. Last week at work I was working on some documentation for an ongoing project. I found myself once again wishing for decent outlining software on windows. I didn't have my laptop with me so I ... http://www.blagosphere.org/technophilia/41-apps-i-use-omnioutliner/ I've always been kind of ambivalent about mobile phones. While useful they are a major pain to use. I've mostly had one from work or a simple pre-paid phone. I was content with that until Apple debuted the iPhone. Being an Apple fanboy and a gadget whore this ... http://www.blagosphere.org/technophilia/34-20-things-about-the-iphone/