Miscellaneous Ramblings....

Over at LifeHacker, there is a nice article on the Top 10 Overlooked Google Apps.

For all of you digital photographers, it looks like Bibble Pro 4.9.9 has been released. New additions include support for newer cameras (including Nikon's and Canon's newest model) and tethering support for Nikons for the Intel Macs, including Leopard.

Since I have not yet upgraded to Leopard (where syncing of notes from the iPhone is automatically included), I did some searching for some workarounds to sync notes from the iPhone to the Mac and did find some general nice iPhone hacks as well as one workaround using mail and another workaround using the Notes fields in Contacts. (Of course, both workarounds might be replaced when a.) I finally get off my duff and upgrade to Leopard or b.) when this product is finally released.

Been meaning to post this a couple of days back, but I pretty much ended up stepping off the plane and back into work (or at least that is what it feels like ).
However, while in Hawaii, everything was great. After calling off the BillabongPro Pipeline Masters the first three days of the contest (due to poor waves), it finally got underway and I was able to catch a couple of days of competition (to say nothing of the view on the beach ). Of course, there were pro surfers aplenty to gaze at (and unfortunately, I wussed out on my chance to get my picture taken with Taj Burrow, an Australian pro surfer {read: cute!}). Of course, there was the near fist fight between Sunny Garcia and Neco Padaratz that I just missed getting inadvertently entangled in (due to Sunny feeling that Neco had cut him off from a wave).
Ate at Haleiwa Joe's (very nice Ahi fish), a Thai place that was simply called Haleiwa Eats (extremely nice satay chicken and yellow curry fried rice), as well as a tasty Indian restaurant called Bombay India, where I enjoyed some very tasty Chicken Tikka Masala.

Of course, I got to come home to 10 degree weather after being in 80+ degree weather for the previous week - yeah .

(And yes, I am still working on getting my pictures up -- in the meantime, here are pictures from my previous trip. ).

Old news to most, but Google Streets has finally added Minneapolis and St. Paul (as well as six other cities). Yeah!

So far I have managed to successfully acclimate myself to the 80+ degree weather .
Missed the Honolulu Marathon (but did hear the cheers outside my window at 4:00 am ). Also did some boogie boarding and ended up with very sore ribs.

Now for my shameless paparazzi-esque moment: while hanging out on the North Shore, I did happen to bump into Shane Dorian ( & son ) as well as Mark Occhilupo - two Pro surfers whom I have watched for many years ( for the lady readers out there, just rent "In God's Hands", which has Shane in it - enough said ).

P.S. No-one ( and I mean no-one:-) ) will care about this except for me, but this is my first ever blog post from my iPhone. Yeah?!

It is somewhat embarrassing to say that I will be blogging lightly for the next week (since I have already been blogging lightly already due to work ), but I will be since I am Hawaii for a week. Yeah!

Supposedly, there are rumors of an upcoming iPhone 1.1.3 update that will supposedly feature, among other things, enabled disk mode for the iPhone (which would be the one feature that I would give up my unsupported/jailbroken 3rd party apps for )

Over at TUAW, there is a link to the Lifehacker interview with the lead Quicksilver developer on the future of Quicksilver (which is looking somewhat gloom ). There is also a link to the video Google Tech talk on Quicksilver.

Firefox 2.0.0.11 has been released. It looks like this release is mainly to correct the instabilities introduced with the previous Firefox 2.0.0.10 update. Here are the release notes for those who are interested.