There are 3 different resources for photos: iStockPhoto stock.xchng (This one has been most useful so far) yotophoto (A search, but so far, I have had to wade through many images you have to pay for) This site has been helpful for clipart: Open Clip Art Library The problem I Read more…
Business Standard published an interesting article called “Gphone: Phantom marketing at its best“. I like the phantom marking label. Anyway, the most interesting thing in the article is the mention of a time line of developments. I found the time line in the article, “Gphone? The Google Phone Timeline“.
Here is an interesting link if you have kids: International Digital Children’s Library I came across this resource when I saw Allison Druin give a Tech Talk at Google: If Google Becomes Giigle. In the talk, she was mentioning the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, which partnered with kids to determine things Read more…
I just came across this article: Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete Are we really ready to call relational database’s “legacy technology”? My first reaction is that column-oriented will only ever be niche software. The article points out that data can be read faster because the columns are together, 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.
I just saw this post about blogging source code. I have been wanting this for quite a while. Now, I just need formatting for the PeopleCode language. Further enhancements that would be nice: Add a button to the advanced toolbar for “format as source code” or “paste as source code”. Read more…
We have just had a great couple of weeks traveling. We went to North Carolina for a week of vacation, and then we flew to Missouri for me to teach a class at the University. Kent did a number of new things: Tweetsie Railroad Kent went to his first theme Read more…