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For my personal security efforts: Tunneling your email traffic over SSH on OS X.
is a tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework — also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting — as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a browser refresh. The toolkit does 99% of the work for you so you have no excuse to not use it.AJAX is the latest web development buzzword. Stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML. This is the technology that Google is using to create all the amazing UI interactivity in it's recent web application offerings.
Jesse James Garrett has a great overview article explaining this technology.
Sexy Motorola PEBL V6 cellphone. Edge capable (Edge is Cingular's high speed network offering - not quite as fast as EV-DO but still nice.) Includes Bluetooth, and an MPEG4 VGA video camera, plus POP3 and IMAP-compatible email app, and MP3 ringtone support. Strangely I'm not lusting after this one, but I think it will be very popular. Clearly a very nice phone. Sort of surprising to see Motorola making some nice design decisions lately (remember way back when their Startac was king?)
Sprint released an EV-DO laptop PC Card even though they have made no announcement concerning their anticipated EV-DO network roll out. The card release is reasonably leading people to think it will be soon.
EV-DO is the 3G cellular data technology that Verizon has had out for many months in a lot of major US markets (including NYC.) Very high connection speeds, but with a tiny bit of latency (like all cellular networks - really only a factor if you are playing on line games,) and a growing (but unconfirmed on my part) reputation for not working so well through lots of walls.
AccessTunes: stream your iTunes library across the internet. $15, although it will let you stream 50 songs before requiring you to pay up. Supposedly the web based interface is a little slow, and remote browsing is not as slick as it is in the iTunes interface, but still this is pretty interesting.