Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Even though the Google Voice app was rejected by Apple, Google went ahead and put out Google Voice through the web, via mobile Safari, at google.com/voice. I haven't had much time to test it out, but did make a test call using Google voice from my iPhone's Safari browser.
All ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
The University of Washington's Department of Computer Science and Engineering has reconstructed Rome in a day.
By harvesting thousands of images from the web and then matching common points in the photos, they were able to compute 3-D visualizations. All in the span of 24 hours. I am vastly oversimplifying, so ...
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
A while back I was chatting with some folks about how somebody needs to come up with a program that easily allows you to churn out WordPress templates with little to no programing skills. It seems Artisteer now does just this.
Only I can't use it now because it is ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Notice any difference between the two images above? That's right. Google Apps, at long last, is out of beta. This includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk.
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
I just discovered LiveChannel.com, a site where you can download -- surely enough -- a little program called Live Channel. With it you can watch various live . . . . wait a sec . . . I'm dumb. The site is actually Livestation.com. With the Livestation app you can ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Not to totally knock satellite radio, but from what I've experienced so far, it is just not worth it.
I recently signed up for a free XM trial online. Limited to roughly 80 channels, the trial lasts only a few days and takes place entirely online where it seems all the ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
I've been using Songbird for some time now. It's basically an open source iTunes with Firefox built in. Today they released version 1.0. If you want to know more, check out their website or the TechCrunch post/review. It is a fine piece of cross-platform software for music and audio ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
So I thought I'd check out C-Span and see what they are serving up today. And lo and behold I had almost forgotten that you need the ever crappy Windows Media Player or the equally crappy Real Player to tune into one of several channels of their content.
Ben Bernanke and ...
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