Gadget Links: Running Amok Edition

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  • How to Eat Healthily at Top Chain Restaurants on Lifehacker: “The food experts at Health magazine have scoured the menus at popular restaurant chains in search of the healthiest foods on the menu, rounding up several healthy menu options at otherwise unhealthy chains.”

    They found reasonably healthy choices at Denny’s, Ruby Tuesday, and P.F. Chang’s, among others.

  • AT&T Providing Free Wi-Fi Access to iPhone Users – Mac Rumors on MacRumors: “A couple of readers have reported that AT&T hotspots are now offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. Barnes and Noble, Starbucks and presumably AT&T’s 71,000 other Wi-fi hotspot locations are now offering iPhone users a custom portal to access free Wi-Fi. A special iPhone formatted page asks for your mobile phone number. Once entered, you can access the Wi-Fi access for free.”
  • The “missing” iPhone ringtone on TUAW: “We’ve all seen the iPhone ads…. None are identical, but most have something in common. Namely, that peculiar ringtone. We call it peculiar because it isn’t actually included with the iPhone. Luckily, most of us have it installed on our computers already.”

    The article goes on to explain how to convert the Apple Loop that comes with GarageBand (part of iLife ’08) into a ringtone for your iPhone.

  • In search of a GTD solution on TUAW: Brett Terpstra’s take on different ways you can integrate Mac apps and utilities into a Getting Things Done system. “…. This round of solution-searching began with a post by Dennis Best titled Getting things done (simply) in Leopard. It outlined a system where iCal calendars are your contexts (or areas of responsibility), To-dos are created in Mail, Mail Notes become projects, and Smart Mailboxes were used to interesting ends. It even had a tagging system, allowing for great flexibility. This was highly appealing to me given its close integration with my primary source of tasks and information: email….”
  • Interactive GTD Software Comparison Table on Priacta.com: “102 Researched GTD Software Titles and Counting. Software listed here has been verified to support Getting Things Done and related systems….” Solutions on the web, Windows, Mac, handheld, Linux, and Python are documented. I’ll have to look at why they breakout Python separately.

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