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In Case You Missed It

Aug 17 2008 / 2:23 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Was unfortunately not able to be near a PC most of the weekend and did not have a Software Saturday prewritten so that will be doubled up next week. Still a bit overwhelmed, but wanted to share some amusing things found in the interim. Hope you enjoy any you had not gotten wind of. In [...]

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Only A Google+Apple Outage Could Turn Focus Away

Aug 11 2008 / 5:52 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

If you believe in the no news is bad news model….Google and Apple getting awesome press right now. Gmail is currently snoozed, and MobileMe is MIA. Louis Gray has posted the information on his blog. He got there first so he gets a big link : Google outage info c/o Louis Gray. It has a [...]

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We Are Mobile

Jul 17 2008 / 9:32 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Image via CrunchBase Thanks to the great guys at Mofuse, we now have a mobile version of the site. m.thesimiandowntimeanalyst.com I realize this a long url to put into a phone, but if you have an IPhone I am sure there will be a tweak or something to fix that. If you do not have [...]

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To Make Sure You Don’t Miss It: Handshake by Tapulous

Jul 10 2008 / 1:32 am Was written by Amber View Comments

Image via Wikipedia IPhone‘s are lovely devices, even though they are over priced and overhyped. But you didn’t need anyone to tell you that unless you were under a really, really big rock for quite some time. Being sensible, some folks wait until Apple or another large company (usually Apple though) comes out with something [...]

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SearchMe Adds Stacks….

Jun 24 2008 / 11:12 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

What are stacks?: SearchMe also now lets you browse YouTube videos and Flickr. via

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Made Me Hate the iPhone a Little Bit Less

Jun 10 2008 / 1:43 am Was written by Amber View Comments

The folks @ hottrix.com have some downloadable mini magic tricks that can be put on the iPhone. My favorite :

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Napster Goes Drm-Free: Woohoo?

May 20 2008 / 4:57 pm Was written by Amber View Comments

Image via Wikipedia With more and more people climbing on torrents and just obtaining music instead of paying for it, the news of Napster ditching DRM is not that big of a deal to me. Even though I do not use torrents for anything due to horrible personal experiences, I’ve been on the SpiralFrog train [...]

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