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Clocky – The brilliance of simplicity

Clocky is an innovative alarm clock that hides from you after the snooze button is pushed. It rolls off the table and randomly relocates to a new position in the room.

When the alarm sounds, Clocky will start beeping. You can snooze once for your choosen number of snooze minutes and if you don’t get up, Clocky will start beeping again and run away. If 0 was choosen as the snooze time, Clocky will run away as soon as the alarm sounds. He always starts by moving forward off of your nightstand. Then he will move around for 30 seconds in different directions.

Best Buy reports $43M Profit from ‘unused’ Gift Cards

Retailers profit from unused gift cards. Last winter, Best Buy Co. reported a $43 million gain in fiscal 2006 from cards that hadn’t been used in two or more years.Read more @ Yahoo

Skip the voicemail prompts when calling a cellphone…

David Pogue posted this article on his NYTimes blog about how to bypass the time and money consuming prompts you get when you call someones cell and get their voicemail.

Basically, as soon as you get the prompt, hit the following key to ship the intro and carrier specific intro and get to the message leaving portion of your adventure:

Verizon: press *
Sprint: press 1
T-Mobile or Cingular: press #

A clever reader of his also adds that since you don’t know what carrier someone is using, you can leave instructions in your message, such as ‘to immediately leave a message, press …

Macheist.com goes bigtime: 10 amazing Mac apps for $49

The month long Mac shareware marathon is over and the final bundle of apps is live. It includes Delicious Library, TextMate, NewsFire, Disco, ShapeShifter, iClip 4, RapidWeaver and more.

Macheist contributes 25% of all proceeds to one (or all) of 8 different charities, and YOU get 10 of the best applications being offered for the Mac OS.read more | digg story

This date in history…

A year ago today, my office at work caught fire, destroying over $80,000 worth of laptops, servers and accessories. The fire was caused by a faulty UPS, and despite the fact that we were down for less than 18 hours, the resultant rebuilding and relocation slowed us down for many months.
The funny thing is that today, the only people who remembered or mentioned it were myself and my partner. Not a single other employee mentioned it.
In a way, that makes me glad…we have come a long way, and the overwhelming sense of doom and gloom in the days …

CNET Editor James Kim located, deceased

CNET Editor James Kim, a well known technologist, was located today after a tragic turn of events in Oregon. Not to rehash the details of the circumstance, but we’d like to note the following details as they have become available.

MSNBC reports that Kim was located alive, but rescue workers couldn’t reach him. When they finally could, he was, sadly, deceased.

Searchers told NBC News that they located Kim on Tuesday and at one point they were able to make direct contact with him. They explored ways to lower a medic to the area, they said, but it was not immediately clear whether that attempt ultimately failed or was too late to save Kim.

Rescuers frantically tried to work out ways to reach Kim in the impassable snow-jammed area over the next hours, Anderson said, but they couldn’t make it in time.

“Yeah, you do take it personally, and it’s been tough,” Anderson said Wednesday.

Boot OSX to a firewire disk

Ever needed to boot your Mac to a firewire disk/drive, such as the Micromat Protege? Not a problem: hold down the ‘Option’ key while rebooting, and choose from the listed drives.
You can use the mouse to select the drive, then click the arrow pointing to the right to boot the system.