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Sunday, September 11, 2011 at 11:01PM On August 25th, I linked to a Houston Press article that examined how 9/11 may have been different for all of us if we would have had some of the technology that we enjoy today. Check it out and see if you agree. Read it here.
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 2:43AM 260 million watts of electricity is the answer. More fascinating is that that number does not represent a day in the life of Google, that number represents what they use continuously at a time, ALL THE TIME. Enough to power 200,000 homes. Check out the New York Times article for more information and for Google's explanation on how that enormous amount of electricity use is actually very green and good for us.
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 2:35AM The other day I got a text from a friend telling me about a Groupon deal on something that I love. Of couse I had to check it out and the deal was one that I could not pass up. I have known about Groupon for awhile but dismissed the service as just another coupon, discount service that did not have much appeal to me. A second, unbelievable deal popped up again in the past couple of days and I am now hooked. Give it a try, you will see why the service is so popular, many of the deals are impossible to ignore.
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 2:28AM What is the big deal about this? Well, the only serious complaint that consumers have had about Apple devices has been Apple's refusal to allow flash to run on their devices. This pretty much locked out most sites that hosted video for you to view. Adobe and Apple have made peace, sort of, and now we get some form of flash. It still will not work for flash based games, animations and advertisements. Check out CNET for more information.
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 2:26AM We were expecting a nice iphone app, but instead we get a web interface app. I love Google Music, but hate it on the iphone because you have to access it through safari, which to this point, has been a pain. An app would have been nice, but we have to settle for a web app. This web app is essentially the safari web page restructured to look nicer and be more user friendly.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 11:41PM There may be times when you want to send a message that leaves no traces. Since "deleting" an e-mail doesn't really remove it from the sending server--let alone from the recipient's in-box and all the stops in between--you need a messaging system that keeps the message itself outside of either e-mail account. You also need to ensure that the text will disappear once it has been read.
That's the idea behind the free Privnote service. Write your note on the site, check the option to "Notify me when this note gets read" if you wish, and click Create Note to generate a link you can paste into an e-mail to the note's recipient. Compose your note in a text box on the Privnote site and then send a link to the note's recipient; after it has been read, the note is erased.
After the person opens the note and closes the page, the note disappears. The recipient can copy and paste the note's contents, so you can't be sure the message will not reappear elsewhere, but at least you know only the person who receives the link has access to the note. The recipient is given the option to compose another secure note. (Credit: Screenshot by Dennis O'Reilly)
