Two small but exciting improvements revealed today. 1. Google has at last made some design improvements to their search results (via Daring Fireball). I wrote about my frustration with Google’s lack of design vision some time ago. It’s great to finally see them trying to improve their usability and their aesthetic at the same time. [...]
When I first saw the title of this article over at Ars I rolled my eyes: Cloud Computing: a short introduction Then I read it. It turns out to be an incredibly thorough, yet brief, technical description of the term Cloud Computing. The article does a great job of defining Grid Computing and then uses [...]
I was recently reading an article on the Tao of Mac that said, among other things: “I’ve long preferred to use iPhone Twitter and Facebook clients over desktop ones…“ It’s true, there are a handful of iPhone applications that are actually better than the original apps they replace — Facebook, for sure, and my recent [...]
Well, as promised, I performed my little experiment and have come to the conclusion that, for this site at least, Google’s AdSense is an abysmal failure. Here’s how it all went down. Getting an AdSense account was pretty easy — just sign up and wait for approval. And approval was quick as I’d submitted my site [...]
Pingbacks are those little snippets of text that get inserted into your comments section whenever someone links to your blog from another site. You can turn them on or off and, I believe, they need to be enabled on the originating site as well. For some folks they can be really useful as a way [...]
You have to hand it to Google. They really seem to be thinking about what their users want. Even if users want out. I think it’s very impressive that the search giant has started a branch of the company dedicated to helping users join, but also leave, Google if they want to. It not only [...]
Just a note to say that my MacBook Pro arrived yesterday (Sep 9). I’ve not had a chance to play much with it beyond transferring my data, but I’ll be sure to report on it as soon as I can. Also, today (Sep 10) my Snow Leopard Box Set — which I pre-ordered from Amazon [...]
About all I have time or energy for at the moment is to note a few random items of interest. The first is Jeffrey Zeldman’s Write When Inspired (via Daring Fireball, of course). Take it as the rationale for the current blight of posts here. And take it as sage advice. Sometimes I beat myself [...]
So for, like, forever Google apps — in particular, Gmail and Google Calendar — have bore a beta label. Now, no one has any idea why this has been the case, but this week Google has decided to remove the beta label with little more than PR-speak as an explanation: “We realize this situation puzzles [...]
I just discovered this (yes, I am slow): Gmail allows for multiple selection using the same method as the Finder. That is, selecting an email with the email’s checkbox and then holding the shift key while ticking another email’s checkbox will select a range of emails between the two selections. Very handy!