Published July 4th, 2007
in Admin Tools, Blogging, Internet and Web 2.0.
I just found by chance today a new service, and a wordpress plugin for that service!
The service is MyOpenID.com, which provides a persistent login mechanism across websites which support the technology. This allows you to provide only your MyOpenID.com user account name to sign up for certain sites/services. This “single-sign-on” technology can greatly reduce […]
Published June 13th, 2007
in General and Internet.
I got this in an email today, and unless there’s something else, I just don’t get it. Maybe I’m getting stodgy in my old age…
http://www.1-click.jp/
Published June 11th, 2007
in Downloads, Internet, Tech News and Technology.
Apple announced at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today that the latest version of the Safari Browser (Safari 3) would be made available not only for Mac OS X, but also for Windows XP & Windows Vista-based PCs.
This introduces a fourth viable browser into the latest generation of the “browser wars” with […]
Published May 25th, 2007
in Google, Internet, Tech News, Tech Tips and Web 2.0.
Those clever gals and guys at the Google Labs are at it again. There’s a new enhanced version (the “universal version”) of search which combines results from image, video and text components in a single search result. This began to appear last weekend in search results from most of the major Google […]
Published March 19th, 2007
in General, Internet, News and Web 2.0.
Late last week Reuters reported that the Oxford English Dictionary has now recognized the word “wiki” as an official word in the English language.
The folks at the Oxford English Dictionary perform periodic updates to the dictionary to keep it current. Some of the other inductees from the class of March 15 2007 are:
bad girl […]
Published January 28th, 2007
in Development, Internet, Microsoft and Web 2.0.
This past week marked the official launch of Microsoft’s ASP.NET AJAX libraries for the .NET platform (formerly “Atlas”). The uptake on this new implementation of a not-so-new technology has been moderate, with the folks who really want to use .NET to target a Web 2.0 solution being the most enthusiastic.
AJAX in and of […]
For the geek in all of us…
I stumbled on a couple of articles recently pointing out the history of programming languages. What originally pointed me at this was an article in Nikhil Kothari’s blog. He pointed to a chart on O’Reilly’s website which listed out the history of programming languages from the 1950’s right […]
Published November 26th, 2006
in Gadgets, Internet, MacBook and Utilities.
OK, admittedly this article isn’t much good if you don’t have a MacBook. But if you do you have to try this. The program is called MacSaber, and it turns your humble laptop into the devastatingly accurate weapon of the Jedi knights. How you ask? Simple.
Most modern laptops (including all […]