October 2007
The Archives
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Technology
Kudos to Amazon for Their Return Process
I bought one of the new aluminum Apple keyboards a couple weeks back for my home office. It’s a very slick keyboard that feels like a large laptop keyboard. I like the limited key travel, the dedicated media buttons and the appearance. What I don’t like is the keyboard, cuz it don’t work. In the [...]
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Technology
Weird Al: An Incentive to Join a Social Network
The other day I received an email from my alma mater trying to get me to join Poly Link, the Cal Poly social network. Weird Al Yankovic is a fellow alum and apparently there’s video of his recent return to the campus that you can only get if you sign up. For some reason is [...]
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Technology
Google Transit is Released From the Lab
Chris alerted me today that Google Transit is no longer a lab project, it has today become a full-fledged feature of Google Maps. Congratulations!!!! It was also announced that the Santa Clara VTA was added to the service, so you can get directions from Google’s headquarters to Yahoo’s headquarters (below). View Larger Map
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Technology
I Got the New Y! Mail
Today, I launched Yahoo! Mail and found that my account has finally been moved onto the new version announced a few weeks back. One feature, that appears to be brand new, is Yahoo! Mail Shortcuts. The client will scan the body of messages and highlight text formatted in common ways. Currently, email addresses, phone numbers [...]
