Chris , Friday, December 21st, 2007

Steve Rubel drops some tips on How to Set Up a Portable Personal Nerve Center. He uses IMAP to create a hub of online life, which also includes portable thunderbird, and also makes things available for offline browsing on any device like iPhone, Treo or Blackberry.

Kayak buys SideStep. Been watching Kayak since they started, this was some exciting news about their recent $200 million acquisition. Will it fly past the CEO’s previous venture Orbitz? hmmm..looks like that would be yes.

Have any plans for the holidays? Besides visiting with relatives and eating? Anne has an open thread asking what your plans are for taking time off over the holidays. Family time for me. And lets hope we have some nice winter snow for tobogganing!

Board today? Watch Zeitgeist the movie. Politics, history, religion…On Google video of course. (No, this has nothing to do with Google.) I really like the fact that the owners grabbed the domain name, and embedded the video. Just wish they gave a little background to what the movie was about.

Apple to get the “Silverthorne” chip. Intel said that Apple is going to be using the chip in 2008 devices.

Bye bye Pablo. A $50M Picasso painting was stolen in a matter of minutes from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art.

Josh lists out 10 web designs/redesigns of 2007 that he’s fond of. Simple designs, easy navigation, and most all its easy to grab the info you want fast from these sites.

23 iTunes Add-ons. CD art, iConcert Cal, Folder Watch, Export, Tagging and syncing tools.

Make your blog stand out. From the name, headlines, flair, images, minimal design and ads.

Colour lovers has a post on Color and Typography in good design.

The best green gadgets of 2007.