Gadgets & Toys

Facebook Friend Wheel… pointless but pretty

by Allan Jenkins on July 16, 2007

I’m finding my way around Facebook these days — lots of familiar faces. And, at least in some of the groups, colleagues are discussing topics they used to discuss on their blogs… so it’s almost essential to be there. And…

Desirable Roasted Coffee is not G rated…

by Allan Jenkins on July 2, 2007

While it doesn’t exactly explain a month’s hiatus from the Noble Blogosphere, I will say I’ve been put off blogging ever since — that is, since 4:04 PM today — I found out my blog is G-rated. G-rated? Only one…

Miss Dewey: a search engine for Lee Hopkins

by Allan Jenkins on October 31, 2006

Brother Lee Hopkins, who likes a pretty ankle almost as he likes a good Googling, can have both with Miss Dewey, a fetching, though tart-tounged, virtual receptionist. Via PSFK Technorati Tags: miss dewey, lee hopkins, search technology, search engines

My dear friend The Organic Goddess is good — often too good — at taking the pulse of low culture. Today, she sends word of Huggable Urns: pillows and teddy bears stuffed with the ashes of your dearest departed. That’s…

Bibliophilian Joy! LibraryThing

by Allan Jenkins on June 27, 2006

The neat thing about social media is that, once in a while, some developer comes up with a really sweet, rox-my-sox, idea. And, no I don’t mean digg, flickr, or del.iciou.s (I never know where to put the dots). Today,…

Woe is no longer me

by Allan Jenkins on May 10, 2006

Painless tagging: great tool

by Allan Jenkins on November 27, 2005

One reason I used to rarely tag Desirable Roasted Coffee posts is that it was just too tedious to fiddle with html, remember the right Technorati or del.icio.us tag sytnax, etc. But now I’m using EGM Stratagy Tag Generator. Wow,…

Useful information from Kayak Buzz

by Allan Jenkins on November 18, 2005

A couple of days ago, I gave the Kayak Buzz Flight Search site a once-over and found it sorely lacking. Kayak’s chief architect, Bill O’Donnell, has since responded: first in a comment to my original post, and later in email….

Kayak Buzz is a useless toy: wrong fares, bad geography

by Allan Jenkins on November 15, 2005

Sometimes an idea comes along that looks so good at first glance that even the mighty Scoble posts about it. So much the worse when the idea falls to pieces at the first poke. Kayak Buzz Flight Searches is one…

Moleskine… You Write Smarter Stuff in one

by Allan Jenkins on October 10, 2005

Pricy, beautiful, functional … so much that your heart breaks if you lose one. Now there’s a blog: Moleskinerie, a blog about the Moleskine, notebook of writers.