“Tesla says the Model S will get about 240 miles per charge while still offering “exceptional performance.” Numbers being bandied about include 0–60 mph in less than 6 seconds. The Model S will have a base price of about $60,000 (versus the Roadster’s $109,000 price tag) when it goes on sale in late 2010.”
Let’s hope they can pull this off…
Oh, and doesn’t it look somewhat like a sleeker version of the Nissan 350Z Coupe?
[via Road&Track]
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This is one of those incredibly creative ideas that you simply can’t help but appreciate…
“Garamond Powerline” is something of an intricate experiment in typography — a typeface composed entirely of images of electrical power lines. Each letter of the alphabet is beautifully crafted with its own unique personality.
Taken as a whole, the typeface is also surprisingly usable; scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the “quick brown fox” sample.
Kudos to the designer, Daniel, for this little gem!
[via waxy.org]
If you’ve got one of the “ultracompact” power adapters for the iPhone, make sure you get the redesigned replacement.
The metal prongs on the original adapters run the risk of breaking and getting lodged in the power outlet, creating an electrical hazard. Apple is replacing all original adapters in the US, Canada, Mexico, LatAm, and Japan with new ones.
I exchanged mine at the 5th Ave Apple Store on Friday, and it was pretty much a five minute process.
So I’ve been receiving quite a bit of mail lately, asking whether Twessenger works with the latest Windows Live Messenger 2009 Beta. The short answer, unfortunately, is - no, it doesn’t.
The latest Messenger beta build introduced a number of major changes, including what appears to be the removal of the “Shared Folders” feature and the official “add-ins” API. As you might imagine, Twessenger relied on this API in order to hook into the application.
I haven’t had the time to dig deeper to figure out if there’s anything I can do to work around this, but the odds of a fix coming anytime soon, if ever, are very low at this point. I’m going to steer away from attempting to use undocumented and unofficial methods because they’re bound to break with any future Messenger updates, and I really don’t have the time to provide support and write patches.
I’m sorry if this answer is a let-down for you. I hope that someone out there can provide a working solution that you can migrate over to soon. Thanks for all the feedback and kind words that many of you sent in during Twessenger’s lifetime. It was fun while it lasted. :)
P.S. If you’re outside the U.S. and can’t access Hulu, try this version instead.
It was only a matter of time. The resemblance is uncanny!
So what’s new?
- More reliable: Completely re-written from scratch to use the latest Twitter API.
- Easier to set up: Just install, enable the plugin, and enter your Twitter username. You no longer need to search for your numeric Twitter ID.
- New options: You can now change the update interval, and choose to ignore all Twitter replies - i.e. messages beginning with @
- Automatic update notifications: Twessenger 2.0 will automatically notify you when new versions are available!
Download: Twessenger 2.0
The last Twessenger update was posted more than a year ago on March 6th, 2007, but the add-in is still popular as ever, and I continue to receive emails and feature requests all the time.
So I’ve finally decided to start working on an update - Twessenger 2.0, so to speak. Since there have been major changes to the Twitter API since the last version was released, I’ve decided to simply start afresh and rewrite Twessenger from the ground up. It’ll be more robust, more user-friendly (no need to hunt for your Twitter ID anymore, for example), and it’ll have some new features that people have been asking for.
No promises, but I should have a download link ready this weekend. :)
If you’re a Firefox user, and you haven’t tried out Firefox 3 yet, you’re missing out on some genuinely awesome features. I’ve been testing it since the early beta bits were available, but I think that the recently released RC2 build is stable enough for anyone to use.
If you’re still hesitant, watch this screencast by Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner, in which he introduces some of the major new features; you’re bound to be impressed.
If I had to pick my favorite feature, it would have to be the revamped address bar (check out the screencast to see it in action), but I also like the integrated add-on manager, and pause/resume support in the new download manager.
Vista users - install the Glasser extension to enable the Aero Glass effect on the browser chrome. Now you’ve got a browser that fits in much better, visually, with the rest of the system. :)
Yes, I know - it’s been a long time. I’m sitting here, at home, on a Saturday evening after a long week of 12+ hour work days, and I’m sick with a cold/flu. It’s a warm (ok, hot!) 91°F/33°C outside in NYC, but I can’t go play volleyball (like I usually do on weekends) because my limbs literally refuse to move right now. So I figured there couldn’t possibly be a better time to login to WordPress and post a long-overdue update…
The most significant bit of news - my brother officially got engaged on May 25th in California! I took a week off from work to fly there and spend some time with the family. He will be moving there in August to start a post-doc at Stanford, and his fiancé works at IBM in San Jose, so it works out perfectly for them. The marriage is scheduled for December 25th in India, and I’ll be making a trip back there after nearly 5 years!
Work has been keeping me busy. In fact, I hear that June happens to be one of the craziest months every year for our team. We’ve been working on a major re-architecture of our application during the last couple of months, and we’re now just days away from wrapping it up and pushing it into production. I’ve also been spending quite a bit of time on the trading floor and learning more about the business side.
Apart from that, the fun goes on during weekends. It didn’t take 10 months of living in NYC for me to realize that it’s easily one of the best cities to be in, but now I simply can’t be convinced to believe anything else!
I’m playing around with a few ideas that might help me to keep more frequent updates coming in the future; let’s see how that works out. Hoping it doesn’t have to come down to another flu next time. :)