Swiecki’s Blog

I’ve launched a new website called Odds and Ends of Contemporary Life and it’s about productivity, blogging, tech, and apple. A few friends might be on board so I’m saving the authors page for now, but it will go up soon. I’ll still post on this blog as well.

Check out the new site and please give it some linky love!

Remember the rumors that Kevin Rose was working on an instant messaging startup? Well it just went live. It’s called Pownce. The website refers to it as:

a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You’ll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.

It’s currently in private beta, and as the website further explains, right now there are four things you can send: messages, links, files, and events. There is also a downloadable adobe application for OSX and Windows. that will allow you to do the same thing as the website You can, of course, submit your email address to get an invite code later, but this Twitter for files, links, events, and messages from Leah Culver, Kevin Rose, Daniel Burka, and Shawn Allen looks like a promising and addicting startup. Here’s a screenshot of the application, which you can download even if you do not have an account.

Edit:

Here’s another one that I took once I downloaded the app.

Woot! Finally finished my final exams! I had been taking them all last week, as well as this week.

In other news, I bought several books to start reading up on cocoa and mac development, and should be starting up on an application soon.

I think the iPhone craze is finally starting to get to me. The entire blogosphere is lighting up with hype and expectation, even more so that Walt Mossberg’s review has come out saying that despite some faults, the “iPhone is a whole new experience and a pleasure to use.” Damn you Walt Mossberg!!! Apple has also posted numerous resources on their website on how to prepare for your iPhone and what to do once you bring home your iPhone, mainly activate it (which is done at home via iTunes!) and also syncing it with your contacts, calendar, music, movies, and more. If you haven’t checked out Fake Steve Jobs‘ blog you should definitely do so, as it’s filled with plenty of hilarious comments on all the hype.

Last but not least, screenshots from OSX Leopard’s iCal leaked out and here are some of the highlights:

Take a look at this beautiful HUD window: