Face Lift

Coworkers over the years have ooed and ahed at my desktop wallpaper and my screensaver.


No foolin' I'm going to share my sources:


1. Interfacelift.com is my source for great desktop wallpaper for my Macs and Windows machines. I tend to like nature and city skyline pics.

The pictures are scaled for different resolutions, so pick the one that fits your resolution and download smug with satisfaction that others will beg you for your source, too.

2. Electric Sheep make the best screensavers. Electric sheep are mesmerizing animated pictures that almost put you in a trance. If you have an internet connection, the program downloads new sheep for your electric flock in the background.

Both sites pics and software is free. You can donate to the Electric Sheep site, if you enjoy your flock.

Goggle Search

As we get older, it is nice to know that technology has our back.

I remember that the best thing that happened for my mother was the advent of cellphones so she could use her landline to call her cellphone when she lost it, or vice verse.

For our generation, we'll have super duper goggles that will help us find our lost car keys and other objects. The University of Tokyo developed goggles that help you find objects and learn new to recognize new objects. The goggles tie into one's backpack computer (what, you don't have one?).

It also has application in finding hard to find flora and fauna in the forest, but let's be clear - it was probably developed by a women who grew weary of helping her husband or son find the ketchup in the fridge.

Male Pattern Blindness is a serious affliction. Now if they can make the goggles connect to our iPhones via Bluetooth, we'll be cooking with gas.

It Vanished Into Thin Air!

Apple's MacBook Air has even more problems facing it than TSA persecution.

Newsweek tech reporter, Steven Levy, lost the loaner MacBook Air that Apple supplied for him to review in his column. He searched everywhere but to no avail.

He changed his passwords on various websites in case the laptop was stolen. But he doesn't think that it was.

Instead, his working theory is that his neat-freak of a wife threw it out with the Sunday paper and magazines that were on the coffee table with the computer.

She neatly disputed his theory as so much hot Air.