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Mini-Link Fest - New Media Focus?!?

I made a recent dent in reading through my RSS feeds, and I have the following items to check up on when I'm working through @Internet, and I thought I'd share them:

• Digg.com - "Al Pacino Podcast"
• Lockergnome - Picasa Easter Egg & Outlook Google Maps Plug-in
• Share OPML
• Bootable Movies
• Build Your Own Fortress Home
• Samsung's HL-S5679W LED-backlit 1080p DLP HDTV
• Eric Mack on how to embed a movie in a blog post
• TypePad supports Skypecast
• CBS Innertube
• UMPC devices are starting to hit the U.S. market
• Alan Cox (Red Hat) discusses computer security (IT Conversations podcast)
• Add a second monitor and get 30% better productivity?
• Open Street Maps in San Diego
• XML is a foundation for MindManager

New Version of D*I*Y Planner Hipster PDA Edition Released

A new the new version of the D*I*Y Planner Hipster PDA Edition is released:

•   http://www.diyplanner.com/templates/official/hpda

dj writes:

It's been nearly a year in development, and has over a hundred printable templates for the compulsive tinkerers among us, including calendars, Getting-based forms, foldable covers, creative tools, a Getting reference card, and a tonne of other stuff. As usual, it's completely free, released under the terms of a Creative Commons license.

IRC Client for Mac OS X

My Mac OS X instant messaging (IM) client is Adium ... it is a pretty good replacement of Trillian on Windows.  But I just learned it does not do IRC.

So I turned to my Friends In Tech and found the following recommendations:

• Colloquy (Victor)
• Conversation (Chuck)
• Ircle (Douglas)
• X-Chat Aqua (Douglas)
• Fire (George)

I am trying out the Colloquy one right now.  It seems to be just the right thing for me.

Also Kreg pointed me to this great resource: opensourcemac.org.