Oh boy what excitement Google announcement created. They will create a browser OS?! And this is somehow special and unique (InstantOn anyone?). Mike Arrington is up in flames posting on tech crunch. He can already see his CrunchPad running with beautiful new OS.
As always I am skeptical. For start the most important reason is:
* They [...]
Oh, Google OS
Upgrading to Win7
Today I took a plunge and went ahead to get Win7 early. Thing is that however nice Win7 is, it doesn’t really bring that much in terms of innovation, frankly I was considering not spending the money if it is $200, especially because we don’t have one, but 4 win machines. So being early I [...]
Wolfram Alpha launches today
I have one thing to say to that unfortunate google inspired startup called cuil: ‘watch and learn’ .
Today we got one more search engine, very unique in it’s design, very interesting and with fresh approach. I don’t think it will replace google, but it added new quality to how we can get information off the [...]
Enterpreneur visa
Paul Graham came up with really brilliant idea that is simple, costs nothing and can only do good. Only risk is whether it will do more or less good. Full article is here.
In short his idea is to create a new visa, which would allow anyone who can assemble small founding team and can find [...]
Getting productive
There is a new magazine on productivity, it is online only and you download it in PDF and print it or read it off the screen.
http://productivemagazine.com/
I bookmarked it few days ago but just got around to actually read it. No first issue should be without interview with David Allen of ‘Getting Things Done’ fame, so [...]
Switching to Zoho
Zoho App Suite Rocks, Google Docs Sucks.
This is realization that I got after using Google Docs for quite a bit of time and after using Zoho for short while.
First and painful issue is that GDocs sheets after download are not compatible with Excel and formulas (very simple ones) don’t work. This is major issue to [...]
Ubuntu 8.10 finally at my desktop
Huh. What a day. In the past I went through 3 machines and on this last one, this newest Ubuntu is the first one that would install and actually work. Reluctantly though. It didn’t really want to install, I have two graphics cards for two monitors, that confuses it enough that single one will not [...]
Dumb Revision3 move
I can’t believe they are canceling Internet Superstar and POPSiren at Revision3. What are they thinking of?!
I was convinced that Rev3 will continue to dominate online shows and even saw it in future as a big production of quality shows. Now this is totally, ridiculously, stupid move !
I am sure they have some metric but [...]
RubyFringe conference
I feel like I totally missed out on this one. From all I can hear and view online, it seems to be great event and they had a lot of fun there. Well.. there is always next year.
Update:
I am currently watching John Lam of IronRuby fame and I am totally sorry I didn’t go there.
Command line launchers revisited
I wrote about my experience with Humanized Enso. It left me feeling that it must be a way to do these things efficiently. I came across Launchy, an open source command line launcher somewhat similar to Enso. I kind of like it a little better.
There is also Colibri launcher that tries to copy Mac’s quicksilver [...]
