News update
April 28, 2009 at 11:10 pm | Posted in tech | Leave a commentTags: news
Video – Bill Gates on what he learned from his father
Bricked MacBook: TX man claims BestBuy sold him a brick instead of laptop (always open the box BEFORE you leave store folks)
GMapsMania scrapes data into Google spreadsheet and posts it to Google Map
tools used: data scraping wikipedia from ouseful.wordpress.com and Google Maps spreadsheet wizard
SFGate.com: most bizarre video games of all time
News roundup and rumor mill
April 27, 2009 at 9:37 pm | Posted in tech | Leave a commentTags: news, Rumors
News roundup and rumor mill
April 27, 2009 at 9:27 pm | Posted in tech | Leave a commentTags: news, Rumors
Tearful goodbye to Geocities free hosting and all those animated gifs
Family billed $62K for downloading WALL-E
Verizon/iPhone deal may be in the works for 2010
Video – homebuilt pre-Tumbler Batmobile
now I’ll buy an iSomething to use the remote control USB missile launcher
Case Study: When tech is good enough: Flip Video
April 27, 2009 at 9:18 pm | Posted in tech | Leave a commentTags: gadgets, invention
http://gizmodo.com/5229951/the-new-mantra-of-tech-its-good-enough
Track swine flu on Google Maps
April 27, 2009 at 10:28 am | Posted in tech | Leave a commentTags: google maps, swine flu
Follow the link for a Google Map showing real time(?) swine flu diagnoses, deaths and false alarms.
The legend:
Pink markers are suspect
Purple markers are confirmed
Deaths lack a dot in marker
Yellow markers are negative
I’m not certain of the data source – World Health Organization or Centers for Disease Control.
While panic is not the solution some knowledge goes a long way. Here’s how to reduce your chances of catching any flu.
Future domain names will be local and international
April 26, 2009 at 11:04 pm | Posted in tech | Leave a commentTags: web design
ICANN, the international body that governs top-level domain names, will increase new domain name endings by 20%. While the .com ending and U.S. based websites have dominated the Internet since the mid-90’s, the new domain name endings will be written in languages not based on the Roman alphabet.
You can also look forward to local endings like .berlin and .nyc. No word yet on .sf.
White House pile o’ cell phones
April 26, 2009 at 10:48 pm | Posted in tech | Leave a comment
Numbers
April 23, 2009 at 9:53 pm | Posted in tech | Leave a commentTags: numbers
Zero Palm Pre’s sold – but here are more “leaked” photos
New offerings from Google Labs
April 21, 2009 at 3:25 pm | Posted in tech | Leave a commentTags: google
The Google News Timeline feature runs your search term through a news archive that includes Time Mag and many local newspapers. Goes back to the forties. History teachers are already giddy about this new tool.
Google Similar Images finds…similar images. You find a pic of a Space Shuttle launch, click similar images, and view images that are close or exact matches to the original.
If tech development stopped 25 years ago…
April 21, 2009 at 2:36 pm | Posted in tech | Leave a commentTags: future
…this is what life might be like for many of us. The typewriter picnic shot is my favorite.
Visa Australia: Evolution
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