Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

Hotmail now allows free forwarding

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Thought I'd never see this day.  My circa 1995 Hotmail account finally allows me to forward email to another account.  A sane move by Microsoft and Hotmail. But there is always a catch. All your forwarded mail gets deleted from the Hotmail site. No big deal there. But ...

Chain Text Message

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Love my buddy to death but why the hell would he send this? There is no why in hell various phone companies are going to get together and say, "Yeah, you know that one chain message?  How many thousand did you get? Ok, let's write it down ...

NASA Images.org Launches

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

NASAImages.org launched last week.  Computerworld puts it this way: [The site] combines some 21 separately stored and managed NASA imagery collections into a single online resource featuring enhanced search, visual and metadata capabilities. The new portal, located here, stores more than 140,000 digitized high-resolution NASA photographs, audio and film clips. The launch of ...

Google Lively

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

So Google Lively -- a virtual, web-based environment, similar to Second Life -- nearly passed me by.  I heard of it this morning from a colleague and surprisingly not from my Google Reader in which I subscribe to many feeds that cover tech news. Looks like it was launched July 8, ...

Error of the Day: Firefox Tabs

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

So this happened when the power went out.  Upon rebooting, I restored my previous Firefox session and low and behold: no "x" on two of the tabs to close them out.  Very strange.

Google Reader and Tasers

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Here's a little something I'm playing around with.  I am quite tired of reading about Tasers in my Google Reader and thought I'd try to bother someone else with this.  Instances of Tasers died down recently it seems, but they still pop up in the news with enough frequency ...

Speech-to-Text for Online Media

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I'm currently looking into a solution for converting words spoken in online videos or podcasts to text that can be included next to the content and easily be indexed by a major search engine. At the moment there is apparently no free, effective solution that I know of. There seems to be ...

Evil Gmail Milestone

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008