Laptop Design

It's nice to see some innovation in the relatively-stagnant laptop market, checkout how the screen on this laptop folds forward:



Read the full article on Sci-Fi

Google's View of TiltedAxis.com

Google currently lists the following words as important on www.tiltedaxis.com:

• news
• asp
• blog
• technology
• business
• headlines
• msdn
• new
• press
• products
• recent
• alley
• elections
• entertainment
• mfc
• national
• original
• project
• server
• software
• stories
• tour
• trailers
• verious
• zone

The perfect Christmas gift

If anyone is looking for the perfect gift to get me this holiday season, I would really like a Panasonic 103-inch high-definition plasma TV. I'm not entirely sure it would actually fit in my living room; however, I'm willing to make some modifications to my house for this baby. :)

Avoid sending e-mail messages by mistake

Have you ever accidentally sent an e-mail before you were done? Or sent something that you immediately wished you hadn't?

Here's an article that explains how to configure Outlook to delay the delivery of messages, giving you an opportunity to stop them from being sent:

Avoid sending e-mail messages by mistake

Google accidentally deletes blog...

According to News.com, Google accidentally deleted their own blog, which allowed another user to register the username:

Google has admitted that it accidentally deleted its own official blog on Monday night. "We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad," Jason Goldman, Blogger Product Manager, wrote in a posting on the Google Blog. Apparently, the Google Blog was unavailable for a short time on Monday.

You can read about it on Google's Blog.

Google accidentally sent e-mail worm...

According to News.com, "Google on Tuesday inadvertently sent the Kama Sutra e-mail worm to the 50,000 subscribers of a Google Video e-mail group."

Read the full story.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

According to Wikipedia, the RSS-DEV group created RSS 1.0 in December 2000. While the technology has been available for nearly six years and mainstream for at least two or three years, I have only recently started producing and consuming RSS feeds.

RSS feeds have several pros and cons. On the pro-side, RSS makes it very easy to aggregate content from multiple sources; however, on the con-side, the RSS aggregators often download RSS feeds that are never viewed by a human leading to large amounts of wasted bandwidth.

Mobile YouTube

Chad Hurley, YouTube co-founder and chief executive, said "Within the next year we hope to have something on a mobile device, it's going to be a huge market, especially for the video mind-set we're dealing with, it's a natural transition."

News.com has additional information on the proposed mobile YouTube service.

.mobi

ICANN has approved another TLD (Top Level Domain), the extension is ".mobi" and it is intended for mobile websites. My question is did we really need a TLD for mobile devices? Does anyone really want to remember a different domain name for their favorite website, just so they can access it through a mobile device. Wouldn't it be better to put technology into place to detect a mobile device and redirect the user to mobile content at the main domain name?

Microsummaries

One of the features I really like in Firefox 2.0 is the new Microsummaries feature, which is described by the Mozilla Foundation as:

Microsummaries are regularly-updated short summaries of web pages. They are compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and they get regularly updated as new information becomes available.

Mozilla Firefox 2.0

Firefox 2.0 has been released:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

C# / ASP.NET

I have been working with C# / ASP.NET for quite some time; however, I recently switched from VB6 / Classic ASP to C# / ASP.NET as my primary development environment and let me tell you, there is no turning back. Things that used to require an arcane mix of Windows API and low level hacks in VB6 are completely unnecessary in C#. In fact most of the "workarounds" I used to implement in VB6 are natively supported in C#.

Internet Explorer 7

Microsoft has finally released Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). This is a highly-recommended upgrade that adds features such as tabbed browsing and improved security. According to News.com Internet Explorer has captured over two percent (2%) of Firefox's market share over the past few months and is continuing to make inroads into the open source browser's turf.

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