Google has done it again with a subtle little change to their Maps. You can now drag and drop route corrections on the fly. I’ve been waiting for something like this for quite a few years. It works spectacularly, although it remains to be seen how many of these intermediate drag and drop points are […]
In 2003, the State of California passed legislation that allowed for test-only emissions certification shops. Apparently, there had been a rash of shops that were failing motorists in order to be able to charge them for emissions repairs. Having test-only shops was a good idea, because then the shop owner didn’t have a vested interest […]
The other day, I noticed that Google Maps was available for mobile devices, particularly my Pearl. So, a week ago, I installed the suite of Google applications (particularly after blowing it with a search via the Google website in my mobile browser). Before, I had installed the gmail application I found online and it worked […]
Yesterday, Apple released Safari 3 beta. Mainly, it makes Safari available for Microsoft Windows. There are a few enhancements that Mac people might notice. Increased speed – Safari is apparently faster than it was, but if I run Safari 2 and Safari 3 side by side, I don’t notice much of a difference.Bookmark improvements – […]
So, I was supposed to go to Staple on Friday night, but I overslept my disco nap (sorry, Fil). I decided to get my ass out of my house for a change and lined up a few Saturday night parties that might be worth checking out. Leaving my house about 10:45, I headed up toward […]
Recently, Camino 1.5 was released. I took it for a test drive. What I like RSS Feeds. Finally. Camino does something interesting in that it doesn’t try to display an RSS feed, but asks for a designated application to handle the feeds. I haven’t seen this in any other browsers.Session Saving. If you crash, you […]
I was thinking about my friends this afternoon and I remembered that I haven’t talked to Ian in a little while. I visited his website and noticed, from his blog, that he’s having some difficulties selling his own music, because of a mixup between two companies about who owns the copyright. I also had no […]
On this day 63 years ago, my grandfather and nearly three million Allied soldiers invaded France in the largest seaborne invasion of all time. He came ashore on Omaha Beach in his tank, after the infantry had cleared the way for the armored divisions. After this invasion, Grandpa stayed in Europe for almost three more […]
Marc Andreessen, an undisputed Silicon Valley technology leader, addresses the Web 2.0 bubble misconception in an essay that has lots of great points. He mentions that all of us in the technology industry are a little gun shy, since many of us were hit very hard by the dot com crash of 2001. I even […]
Yahoo recently relaunched their Maps application. It’s very pretty. I’m going to stick with Google Maps, though. Here’s why: I can’t navigate Yahoo Maps with my keyboard. On Google Maps, I can arrow any way I like, use the + and – keys to zoom, use the mouse wheel to zoom, page up/down to move […]
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