Chris Simpkins has released a beta version of Pong – http://beta.pongpong.org/. Pong is a desktop application for automating the pinging (the blog notification type ping, not the ICMP type) of the different blog tracking services. Looking at the screenshots below, you might be tempted to warm up your Mighty Mouse and get busy downloading. Unfortunately, this is Chris playing with [...]

It was news to me (as apparently it’s been discussed elsewhere), but the XBox 360′s controllers are true USB peripherals. Where “true usb peripheral” means USB with a standard USB connector, not the XBox 1′s controller connector that is USB on the inside and sharp spiky bits on the outside. Ostensibly it’s to enable taking the controller back and forth [...]

Today Yahoo!, who you may be familar with from their line of DVD players, just released the new beta of their webmail product. While they don’t come out and say so, is obviously the work of the OddPost team (who big Y! bought last year). Oddpost was a standout webmail company whose primary claim to fame was a super slick [...]