I have always been a slow typer, due mainly to the fact the I have cerebral palsy, albeit a mild case. Unfortunately as a result of my car accident, I’m now a quadriplegic. I have some use of my legs, good arm movement and some hand movement, but I can only use my thumbs and … Read more
I initially thought that Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book” was going to be full-text searchable. Well, not exactly. You can search for words but the results are displayed as images of the page the text is on. This is mainly for copyright reasons and I guess it makes sense. If they were making a research … Read more
A couple of days of ago I installed the alpha of Thunderbird, the mail client from the folks now known as the Mozilla Foundation. My early impression is that it’s as good as any mail client out there, but being an alpha it of course lacks polish. Slightly more polished (beta) is the RSS reader … Read more
I just got Zone Alarm Pro for my Windows machine, not that I really needed it, I’m already behind a router so not a whole lot gets through anyway but ZA Pro has some good ad and pop-up blocking features and email protection. Update: the ad and pop-up blocking is nice but Zone Alarm is … Read more
Marc Andreessen was quoted Tuesday as saying “There hasn’t been any innovation on the browser in the last five years. And five years from now there won’t be any changes.” I think that estimate is a bit early but there is little doubt that web browsers are stagnant. However I do agree with Web Standards … Read more
Proving that information technology is everywhere, it was announced today that the NASCAR Winston Cup Series will be called the Nextel Cup Series. That’s quite a big jump to go from a tobacco company to a wireless company. Maybe it will mean free wireless networking and/or cell phones at the tracks.
I’ve bought quite a bit of stuff from the Apple/iTunes including Elvis, U2, and the Clash. I have to say I like purchasing the music better than using P2P software, because you know what you are getting and you support the artist. Although what the artist gets is largely dependent on their label and I … Read more
While Internet Explorer on the Mac is dead, the browser situation on the Mac is alive and well. Mozilla and its Gecko incarnations and Safari are at the forefront. And now the formerly dismal Omniweb is using Apple’s WebCore and JavaScriptCore in Omniweb 4.5 beta, which means it renders code just as well as Safari.
