The iPod is more popular than ever with the release of Windows iTunes. This announcement from Toshiba is amazing: “Additionally, Toshiba said it is also considering production of 1-inch drives. Such drives are small enough to be encased in a CompactFlash card form factor.”

I was thinking about cell phones, palm pilots, GPS, and wallets (credit cards, money, photos, i.d.s) Surely it will all converge into a single thing and that thing could be an iPod. Apple has built a method of keeping large data files easily updated on your “thing”. That includes music and photos. (People carry photos in their wallets.)

They’ve got address and calendar info updating via iSync like a Palm. How hard can it be to stick a phone and some GPS in there?

None of this bodes well for checks, but my Apple stock should go up.

Random Image Rotation: A List Apart

Create a folder full of images and include the php script above in the folder and you get random rotating images. (Hit the refresh button and the picture below will change.) Now if I can figure out how to make them links that pop up larger versions of the images…

I chose a bunch of photos and exported them with iPhoto using a constraint of 300 x 300 max. In that way all random photos are the same size by either width or height.

Amazon has announced a new search capability… inside books! The results of my search for “snowdens of yesteryear”…

This tip explains how to get rid of the Image Toolbar that pops up over graphics in IE 6 by default. This can be a confusing feature when a customer sees a toolbar float over a product image.

Disabling the Image Toolbar in IE 6 for Your Site (thesitewizard.com)