Tech Friday:

"Ten Reasons to Buy Windows Vista".

"The Most Promising Web 2.0 Software of 2006".

Not here yet, but sounds cool: Flyspy.

The way it works is that I give it a departure city and a destination city and optionally a departure date and length of stay. The search result, which returns very quickly, will present me with a graph of flight prices over the next 30 days so that I can quickly look at which days are the cheapest to fly. To book a flight I just click on the point in the graph. Simple.

Tunecore promises bands to upload their music to i-Tunes--with the bands keeping all royalties--very cheaply.

1 gigabtye of free online storage at Openomy.

Last, and maybe best, Vault Radio is playing, free, excerpts from shows produced by Bill Graham (Fillmore West, Winterland, etc. When rock was still good). Link via Resource Shelf.

Comments

[sean]

There´s an online tool at http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/prego - ITA Trip Planner - that´s basically the same as Flyspy.

[Robert Cote]

Microsoft Windows Vista Enhanced Professional Edition 1.0 (2007) equals OS X 10.1 (2001) except for security, ease of use, size, price and speed.

[Jake]

To expand on Robert's excellent comment.

"The Windows Collaboration module uses peer-to-peer technology to let Vista users work together in a shared workspace."

OS X does not have this but most MAC applications that need sharing, accomplish this within the application.

Amazingly, OS X with every new version (3) has become faster and faster and can run on smaller and smaller machines. Contrast that with the Cray-like computer that will be needed to run Vista.

[Robert Cote]

Thanks Jake. Piling on; Vista is just like OS X except for adding restrictive DRM, undocumented backdoors, propietary networking protocols, backwards compatibility, reduced documentation, administrative overhead. Oh, I give up. People either know this already or don't wish to know. My clients with mixed environments always make sure there is a machine running Windows 2000 Professional so that they can always be sure of at least one mission critical workstation.

Sean, thanks for the itasoftware link. I lost it about a year ago and could never find it again.