Computers

Google Maps Get Better

Posted by George on December 12, 2008 at 11:30 pm

Google continually evolves everything and Google Maps is no exception to that rule. During the past month or so I’ve noted some really cool new features like updated zoom/pan/navigation controls, new My Maps features, and navigable street view is available in some areas. Let’s take a quick look at new My Maps features, here’s a [...]

Site Design Basics – Navigation and Links

Posted by George on December 4, 2008 at 10:48 pm

I’m amazed at times to I see high profile websites breaking what I consider to be unspoken “laws” of web design. One of the first of which would be to insure that visitors to your site can distinguish between clickable and non-clickable text. For example, you want readers to easily see at-a-glance how to navigate [...]

Technorati Indexing and Google – Video

Posted by George on December 1, 2008 at 11:16 pm

If you blog, or are just a Technorati freak you might want to give a listen. Dorion Carroll (Technorati VP of engineering) on Indexing millions of blogs in real time. A little bit beyond that, check out 5 Tips to Better Technorati Indexing including this great bit: If your blog software supports categories and RSS/Atom [...]

The Gmail Email Reminder?

Posted by George on November 22, 2008 at 12:18 am

Gmail’s Forgotten Attachment Reminder now has a sibling, a reminder to types your email out instead of sending an empty email (maybe an email just with a subject line like “How About Dinner Tonight?”). Gmail lover that I am I’m going to rate this one next to useless, unless you are trying to break yourself [...]

Computer Maker Lenovo Pulls Malware Download From Their Website

Posted by George on November 21, 2008 at 9:06 pm

Recently computer manufacturer Lenovo (an IBM company) pulled a download off of its website that was infected with a Trojan. According to Ryan Naraine’s (security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab) post on ZDNet… Computer maker Lenovo is shipping a malware-infected software package to Windows XP users, according to warning from anti-virus researchers at Microsoft. Its unusual, [...]