Computer and Web Services
Armed Robbers Apologize to Army Reserve Victim – ABC News The 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sophomore, who joined the Army Reserve a year ago, said he was walking home from work early Tuesday morning when four masked men forced him into an alley at gunpoint. After ordering him to the ground, the reservist said the…
Google Translate I happened to use Google Translate recently and realized they have changed its face since my last visit. If you don’t know about this service visit the link. When you visit a website in a language you can’t read just visit this site and put the link in the form. If you have…
This is the most common view here in Oregon and I like it. But it’s causing some friction with my sun loving wife and friends who are ready for the California style spring. So we wait and watch things turn green and grow long and hope sometime we’ll be dry enough to go mow the…
Parachuting has come a long way in my lifetime. Have a look at this video on jumping from a helicopter I believe from the Alps:
15 Tips to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Those who know me know I consider most SEO (Search Engine Optimization) a waste of time. There is no substitute for real content on your website or blog to get you up in the rankings of the search engines. Period. But once you have some information or…
Street View Gallery > Top If you haven’t looked at Google Streetview yet you likely at least have heard of it. Google is now using web cameras to display 360 degree views of streets and has them displayed for a number of major cities already. Yes it is likely coming to your home too soon.…
Google Launches Free 411 Service When I was young directory assistance was free, a human, and very good. I used it a lot and maybe folks like me are why Ma Bell dumped it. But there is a good reason to keep information flow free and apparently Google agrees with me. What they have done…
CellSwapper Solves A Very Annoying Problem What an idea! I *HATE* cell phone companies. The whole Reagan revolution meant the downfall of customer service and cell phones debut in the same period led the way in customer NO-service. A major part of the NO-service was the inclusion of terrible contracts for long time periods with…
Vyew.com – FREE Anytime Collaboration and Live Conferencingâ„¢ From my PC Users Group to the church meetings I attend I am always looking for good “cheap” meeting software so that folks can attend online as well as in person. The best I have found is GoToMeeting.com but it’s not cheap and for non-profit groups it’s…
Blue Oyster Spiral Fractal Zoom – Google Video This is an interesting demo of two nice items. First this is from Google’s new “Captioned” videos they have available. I am listing this one because it is a relatively short show, but you can also see full programs and movies more than an hour long now…
Google Reader (100+) Today Google updated their page format of Google Reader. It now can look much more like Bloglines or Pluck in addition to its old style of display. Personnaly I think this is a great improvement once again making Google the big bully on the web, M$ is falling backward again. Consider this…
Closed Captioning Hits Google Video This is great news for the hearing impaired. Now Google is captioning the videos on it’s site. I wonder if it uses software or skilled people to do it…