Archive for January, 2009

Welcome to 2001 – Windows 7 Gets a “Dock”, too!

Excerpt form an Ars Technica Article on the Windows 7 UI: An icon on the taskbar doesn’t necessarily mean that a program is running; programs can be pinned to the taskbar so that their icon is persistent. Clicking the icon starts the program (if it’s not running) or switches to it (if it is). …featured [...]

iWeb ’09 Adds FTP Support

Apparently Apple finally listened to the many users requesting direct FTP support. Quote: Rather use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to publish to a different hosting service? With the built-in FTP support in iWeb, you can do that, too. I am curious to see if this works as seamlessly as syncing via .Mac or MobileMe…

Activate Google Street View on iPhone

I was very excited that google street view was announced the same time I bought my iPhone, alas I could not figure out how to use it. Apple’s or Google’s websites offered no help, so it took some google searches to reveal how to do this (comment 3 here). Basically, you have to drop a [...]

iPod on the iPhone – First Impressions

I have had my iPhone for nearly a month now and absolutely love almost everything about it – the great exception being the iPod. Having been a 1st Gen iPod Nano user for three years, I surely was expecting the iPhone to support folders for my playlists. I still remember my excitement when iTunes started [...]

Tinted Windows – The Inside Perspective

I wrote in the past about my dislike for tinted windows. So far I only had the perspective of another driver. Tinted windows don’t allow me to look through the rear of windows of cars driving in front of me, thus preventing me from observing the traffic ahead which can give you additional warning and [...]

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