Archive for: 3-2008
Monday, den 31. March 2008

When the network administrator at a small private school in Alabama suddenly left his job, the school was aching for a network/computer support administrator. Why not look in the direction of your own students? Jon Penn, son of an employee of the school, was just a sixth grader known for being a wiz at computers. [...]

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Tuesday, den 25. March 2008

Ever get frustrated that you couldn’t find exactly what you need on Google. Sure, Google knows everything but sometimes it doesn’t want to tell you. Well, many companies have realized this and decided to take a more human approach to the internet. They are “curating” Google’s index, as in, they are trying to find the [...]

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Monday, den 10. March 2008

If you are like me, and have been looking for an inexpensive, easy, and non-invasive way to sync your Google calendar with your Outlook calendar, then today is your lucky day. I logged into my Google Calendar account today to find that that they added a link at the top that says “Sync with Microsoft [...]

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Friday, den 7. March 2008

Yesterday, Apple’s Software Development Kit (SDK) was released to developers who want to develop software for the IPhone. With the announcement, they also added that any software for the IPhone would either be downloaded through the App Store, which resembles the Music Store already on the IPhones, and the ITunes Store. While I would argue [...]

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Friday, den 7. March 2008

A freshman at Ryerson University in Ontario is awaiting his committee meeting to discuss a possible expulsion for… brace yourself… using Facebook to run an online study group. This group had 147 members (including himself), and he is being charged 146 charges of academic misconduct (one for every student but himself). So, what’s the problem [...]

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Wednesday, den 5. March 2008

One of the newest additions to the Google software list is Google Streets. This is an addition to Google Maps that actually lets you go down to street view to see the surrounding area. This will help all those people who are direction handicapped by adding landmarks to the list. Check it out (when you [...]

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Monday, den 3. March 2008

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple computers, recently spoke in Australia, and had less that favorable opinions about Apple’s IPhone, Macbook Air, and Apple TV. Some of the criticisms are the lack of the G3 broadband network on the Iphone, the lack of a DVD drive and ethernet port on the Macbook Air, and the 24 [...]

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