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2008-09-02 21:20 UTC
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currently surfing with the Google Chrome web browser (only works in windows for now) - pretty cool so far. I'm reading through the comic strip that describes the engineering decisions (here) and every time I click on the arrow to advance a page, it advances two pages, and I have to go "back" - funny.
When I was in law school in 1993 (and for the next few years), I worked in the "Legal Information Institute", and we had what I still think is the first web browser for MS Windows, called Cello - (read more here) but we forgot it like a dentist appointment when mosaic for windows (and then Netscape) came out. It occurred to me that, besided lynx, pretty much all current web browsers shared a common ancestry (Mosaic, that is), and that the "aboriginal" browsers, like Cello, had all died out. But here's a new one -- that's kind of big deal, really.
Can't wait to try it on a mac.
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posting from minivan
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2008-08-03 19:40 UTC
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on vacation - got the macbook connecting to the internet via bluetooth. Currently rolling down I10 west of Fort Stockton (Jane's driving). Not too much bandwidth, but it's still pretty cool.
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world adaptor + usb charger
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2008-06-28 13:02 UTC
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yes! The coveted fujifilm world adaptor + usb charger is mine! Due to this huge flight delay, I'm spending a lot of time in airports - Iooked at display after display of charger adapters, and saw lots and lots of different combinations, some with multiple abilities, but this one converts anything to anything.
The one (and only) thing I like better about the blackberries than the treo phones is that they use a more 'standard' USB charger, which this device supports. I've got a pretty versatile charger for the treo, so this is more for my laptop and stuff. Still, it would be nice to ditch the phone charger and just use this. Maybe there's a special cable that will charge a treo out of a USB socket. |
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i don't trust itunes
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2008-05-30 13:07 UTC
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I use WinXP at work, and at one point I installed iTunes so I could listen to someone's song or something like that. Doing some cleanup now, and I notice it seems to have a bunch of related processes running and ports open, and when I went to uninstall it, I got a dialog box about halfway through the process saying I needed to close my MS outlook inbox before the uninstall could be completed. What was iTunes doing with my email??? No sir, don't trust it. I wonder if I can get it off my mac.
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