io9 (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
newVideoPlayer("/plagueyeartrailer.flv", 506, 280,""); It seems like nobody can release a book without making a trailer for it, and now the trailers themselves have become a kind of art form. You've... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I love how this promotional film for the novel Plague War starts out like an action movie—and then it turns out that all that running around was just a setup to introduce author Jeff Carlson , who proceeds to explain the high concept underpinning his story (which began in Plague Year ) and even throws in a bit of drama, subverting viewers' sympathies in a wicked twist. As I've mentioned...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Jeff sez, "Just ahead of the publication of my second novel, sci fi thriller Plague War, I (author Jeff Carlson) and two friends have released a 'book trailer' entitled 4 Minutes Above 10,000 Feet. Shot in the Sierra mountains, this short film can only be described as Alive meets The Blair Witch Project meets the new Andromeda Strain. " Link (Thanks, Jeff!)...
MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Echoing the Computerworld post of 11 cool new apps for the iPhone, and my stab at similar Windows Mobile apps , the venerable Seattle Times has an article by Jeff Carlson discussing iPhone applications in his practical Mac column . (As noted on the site, Carlson and Glenn Fleishman are responsible for the 'Practical Mac' column.) "The [iPhone] applications run the spectrum from...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Jeff Carlson has posted a nicely-done book trailer called 4 Minutes Above 10,000 Feet to promote his book Plague War . This is the sequel to Plague Year , one of the buzz books I recently wrote about. Here's the YouTube version... ...but the author has a hi-def version at his website.
CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Glenn Fleishman writes “Jeff Carlson has discovered that you can bypass the 20 cent per message or $5 to $20 per month fees for SMS (text messaging) with the iPhone 3G and AT&T by using AOL’s downloadable instant message client for iPhone 2.0, which is free. Just like the full-blown AOL IM system, you can [...]
TechBlogger (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Glenn Fleishman writes “Jeff Carlson has discovered that you can bypass the 20 cent per message or $5 to $20 per month fees for SMS (text messaging) with the iPhone 3G and AT&T by using AOL’s downloadable instant message client for iPhone 2.0, which is free. Just like the full-blown AOL IM system, you can [...]
The Apple News (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Glenn Fleishman writes "Jeff Carlson has discovered that you can bypass the 20 cent per message or $5 to $20 per month fees for SMS (text messaging) with the iPhone 3G and AT&T by using AOL's downloadable instant message client for iPhone 2.0, which is free. Just like the full-blown AOL IM system, you can add buddies that are the phone numbers of cell phones you want to send SMS to, and...
MacMike News (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Glenn Fleishman writes “Jeff Carlson has discovered that you can bypass the 20 cent per message or $5 to $20 per month fees for SMS (text messaging) with the iPhone 3G and AT&T by using AOL’s downloadable instant message client for iPhone 2.0, which is free. Just like the full-blown AOL IM system, you can [...]
The Apple Core (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Angry about AT&T’s nickel and diming ways with their iPhone data and SMS plans? Then don’t purchase an SMS plan at all (sorry, can’t help you with the data part). Tidbits’ Jeff Carlson notes that you can send SMS messages for free by using the iPhone’s free AIM chat client. Here’s how: From the App Store, [...]
mac.ro (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
... only for Mac OS X 10.3.9, Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later, or Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Copyright © 2008 Jeff Carlson. TidBITS is copyright © 2008 TidBITS Publishing Inc. If you're reading this article on a Web site other than TidBITS.com, please let us know , because if it was republished without attribution, by a commercial site, or in modified form, it violates our Creative Commons License...
mac.ro (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Glenn Fleishman writes "Jeff Carlson has discovered that you can bypass the 20 cent per message or $5 to $20 per month fees for SMS (text messaging) with the iPhone 3G and AT&T by using AOL's downloadable instant message client for iPhone 2.0, which is free. Just like the full-blown AOL IM system, you can add buddies that are the phone numbers of cell phones you want to send SMS to, and...
Madshrimps Forum Madness (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Jeff Carlson has discovered that you can bypass the 20 cent per message or $5 to $20 per month fees for SMS (text messaging) with the iPhone 3G and AT&T by using AOL's downloadable instant message client for iPhone 2.0, which is free. Just like the full-blown AOL IM system, you can add buddies that are the phone numbers of cell phones you want to send SMS to, and you establish a two-way...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
... of Biology in Science Fiction . Lilith Saintcrow talks briefly about he book on Night Shift . Jeff Carlson ( Plague Year and the upcoming Plague War -- read the 1st chapter !) has a newly re-designed website. Andre Norton's will left unclear deatils surrounding the ownership rights to her more than 130 books, including the Witch World series. The Daily P.O.P. revisits The Adventures...
Macworld (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Jonathan Seff went out to pick up an iPhone 3G Friday morning as part of a story we’re working on about the activation process. Since time was of the essence, Jon decided to skip the Update, 8:45 a.m. PTMany other users are also sounding off, on Twitter and elsewhere, about Apple’s iTunes .TidBITS and Macworld writer Jeff Carlson that at the University Village store in Seattle, the first...
