Entries Categorized as 'news from the web'

boycotting walmart

Date December 14, 2005

i’ve had it.
i’m sick of walmart harrassing minority customers as they leave the store. it happens all the time. i’m a very passive person and i don’t usually stir up controversy. but in this case, i’ve lost all patience with wal-mart.
i’m not sure if most of you know about [...]

google transit opens its doors

Date December 8, 2005

google introduced yet another beta version of one their applications, dubbed google transit. this application enables one to map out trips using supported public transit systems. here is a snippet from google blog:

With it, commuters will be able to easily access public transit schedules, routes, and plan trips using their local public transportation [...]

google rss reader

Date October 7, 2005

yup. it’s here.
i haven’t actually tried it yet, but if it’s anything like gmail then i’m sold. right now i’m looking at this:

we’ll see if it’ll replace bloglines for me or not
update: ok, i’m not too happy with the interface. some things that would make it better are:

show the [...]

hurricane katrina

Date August 28, 2005

as most of you know, i live in south florida and hurricane katrina just recently passed through my area. i only had a uprooted tree in my front yard, and my barbeque grill was mangled in the back yard. other than that, everythings ok.

as for the next victims of katrina, she’s now a [...]

can you digg it?

Date August 10, 2005

i primarily use del.icio.us as my social bookmarks site, but i (re)stumbled across digg.com on some podcast that i listened to but can’t remember. from the feel of the site, it looks to be ajax, but i can’t confirm just yet. anyway, i added another thing to my sidebar with my latest diggs. [...]

flickr new stuff

Date August 3, 2005

i read over at theubergeeks.net that flickr has released a couple new features to their site. they basically have turned themselves into a technorati like entity for photos. you can find top quality photos easily with this new interface. go read the details over at the flickr blog, then go check it [...]

sweet oled keyboard

Date July 18, 2005

this keyboard is super sweet. basically allows you to program the display of your keys on the keyboard. while now, its a simple concept, i can see some powerful and useful applications of this technology. the first being learning a new language and instantly AND visually applying that keyboard layout. (how [...]

live 8

Date June 26, 2005

this caught my attention immediately as it’s a topic i have very much interest in.

Every single day, 30,000 children die, needlessly, of extreme poverty.
On July 6th, we finally have the opportunity to stop that shameful statistic.
8 world leaders, gathered in Scotland for the G8 summit, will be presented with a workable plan to double aid, [...]

gmail now even cooler

Date April 2, 2005

at first, i thought it was a april fools joke, but google has pulled out the big guns and increased their gmail storage size to 2GB. but wait there’s more! they also are increasing the storage space by the second. it looks like you’re getting about an additional 1MB of space every [...]

google desktop released - with new features

Date March 8, 2005

it’s soft of odd that that a product can come out of beta with new features, but who’s to question google? google desktop was released to the public with the following new areas to search:

Netscape Mail / Thunderbird

Netscape / Firefox / Mozilla

PDF

Music

Images

Video

i’ve installed it and its been indexing my drive for about 3 hours [...]

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