Pzizz

A few more of my MacBreak segments from the Macworld Expo floor are now available for download:

• MacBreak 51 Macworld 2007: The Omni Group - (MOV) - 8:03 - “Merlin chats with Ken Case from the Omni Group about their products and the application development possibilities for the iPhone.”
• MacBreak 50 Macworld 2007: MacTank - (MOV) - 07:44 - “Merlin chats with the developers of MailTank and MailTemplate.”
• MacBreak 49 Macworld 2007: AppZapper, Pzziz and Cha-Ching - (MOV) - 8:58 - “Leo and Merlin continue their tour of ‘Tiny Town’, visiting with the makers of Cha-Ching, Pzziz and AppZapper.”
• MacBreak Macworld 2007: Flip4Mac - (MOV) - 5:59 - “Leo and Merlin chat with the makers of the Flip4Mac suite of digital media tools.”

More episodes coming later today. Never miss an episode of MacBreak by subscribing for free.

My Make column on napping is overdue, and yet right before dashing off to steal a rejuvenating 20-minute nap, I take a spin past del.icio.us/popular to find this little gem:

In which Alex is still on about the notional iPhone (and its current-day antecedents), Leo loves his lumber-swinging MacPro, Scott is completely full of beans, and everyone rags me mercilessly about my fondness for new age nap software.

The My Dream App competition (for which I’m a judge) has reached the first elimination round, so you have just a few hours to place your vote and help whittle the contestants down to the next round of 18.

Chris Messina points out that Pzizz, our favorite napping helper application, is on sale for today only at MacUpdate.

I had a Psychology teacher back at New College (who’s now apparently an expert in the Klingon language), who used to talk about how the human body had these ±90-minute cycles. And that if you could become aware of yours, you could do Great Things – particularly because you could learn the optimal time to snag a nap versus, say, try to cure small-cell carcinoma.