InfoWorld asked the question, Low-cost laptops are great, but who will pay? Can I suggest an answer? I think the Church should pay some of the cost and should take part in the distribution of the laptops. It makes perfect sense for two reasons: The Bible instructs us to take Read more…
I just read an article from InfoWorld about Google Gears. I have sat on this post for quite a while without publishing, and then, I saw a video called “Gears and the Mashup Problem“. After that, I had to go back through and kind of re-work the post. What is Read more…
According to InfoWorld, the one-laptop-per-child is looking to cows for energy to power their laptop in developing countries. From the looks of it, they are attaching the cows to a generator that will produce the power the laptop needs. OLPC experiments with cow-powered laptops … seriously
It does not look like there is a strong concensus, but some consider today (9/13/2007) as programmer’s day. From what I understand, today is the 256th day. 256 is a number many computer geeks see a lot because computers work with binary numbers. Wikipedia apparently had an article at one Read more…
Last Friday, Electronista claimed that the Google phone would be announced in two weeks. Does that mean that now it will be announced in one week? Google phone just two weeks away At the time, my Google news feed had listed three or four articles with a similar title. But, Read more…
Google Tech Talk about handling email called Inbox Zero: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=973149761529535925
The search has been a dearly missed feature in Google Reader. A number of times, something has come up in conversation that I said, “oh, I read something about that just the other day, but I could never find it again.” Now, I can search back through the feeds to Read more…
According to this article, you can use Google Search to search for just pictures with faces in them. Here is another article along the same lines. According to the second article, the option is in the advanced search options now.
Now is the information age. We have access to plenty of information, but can we harvest it? News companies and websites are spewing information on current events, and bloggers are adding their personal treasures as well. But, visiting every one of the websites on the Internet to check for new Read more…
This is a little bit late, but I noticed that Google has added some traffic tools for major cities. For those of us in the Tampa area, we can use Google traffic to see what driving into town looks like. As far as I can tell, Google does not have Read more…