- Yahoo! has bought Konfabulator. Konfabulator started as a Mac widget program and later released a Windows version. It received some attention when Apple released OSX “Tiger” which contained an apparent blatant rip-off which they dubbed Dashboard.
The purchase of Konfabulator by Yahoo! has brought the price down to the low, low price of nada. I’ve been using it for a while and love it, the look, the community, and the small footprint. Now that it’s free (and ambi-OS) why not give it a download?
- Promise TV wowed some folks across the pond this week with a new prototype DVR which downloads an entire week of digital TV content and indexes it before storing it on a 3.2 TB hard drive bank.
(Thanks BoingBoing and CNET).
- ProFootballTalk.com has been writing recently about how/why/whether the NFL should adopt an NBA-style rookie payscale arrangement, rather than, I don’t know, paying a kid from Utah $50 million before he takes a snap as a 49er. PFT also raises some interesting points about conflicts of interest between the player agent community and the players union (factoid: Alex Smith’s agency also represents NFLPA prez Gene Upshaw, who may not have the interests of rank-and-file players foremost in his mind in his pocket veto af a new rookie scale). Interesting stuff. I can’t get a permalink, so CTRL-F your way to “PLAYERS, UNION AT ODDS OVER ROOKIE SCALE?”.
Fret not, readers. Our Mike will back soonish. And I’ll be grounded for not posting more.
chope | 28-Jul-05 at 4:10 pm | Permalink
Glad to see that Yahoo’s crack design team has given Konfabulator’s homepage a “beautiful” make-over.
ugh.
chope | 28-Jul-05 at 4:15 pm | Permalink
also… I don’t think football contracts are guaranteed. So if that Alex Smith kid sux the he won’t see all that money… right? i like the nba rookie cap. I think they sign three year contracts and you rarely see a rookie hold out cause they can’t get the big bucks till after the three years. the only downside is you see them jump ship after its up and they are good. I am sure Cleveland is sweating this right now.
Ethan | 28-Jul-05 at 8:33 pm | Permalink
Well, $24M is guaranteed, which is a lot for someone who (as PFT points out) has about a 50-50 chance of panning out.
And here’s the great point. Guys like that aren’t making the *teams* pay any more money. The 49ers have the same cap as before. What they’re really doing is taking money from other players on the team. Namely the veterans that have been around a t least a year and proven themselves as roster-worthy.
ronan | 29-Jul-05 at 10:55 am | Permalink
As I slowly move into this decade of downloads… this thing is awesome. Allsorts of needless junk that I can spend hours tinkering with rather than working. Thanks E!