Despite my protests to never become “one of those Blackberry owners”, I have, for the past three months, sadly and somewhat hypocritically, become a proud owner of a Blackberry Curve. Isn’t she a beaut? After three months of fairly heavy usage, I’ve compiled a list of 12 suggestions and impressions for people who are looking at making a purchase or wondering what [...]
My favorite feed reader just got three long overdue updates: It can now count to 1000. Back before this Google Reader update (during the wild, young days of the internet), on days when I couldn’t check Google Reader, the unread post count would build up rather quickly. However, instead of being told precisely how many blog posts I had, Google [...]
Where I work, just like in college, I have instant electronic access to numerous databases. While I no longer have access to Scifinder Scholar (for Chemistry papers and structures and patents) or (almost) full access to journals on PubMed (which indexes every biological/medical paper published), my research workhorses are now Factiva (for news and magazine articles), [...]
Its been awhile since I’ve done one of my computer tip posts. The application I want to talk about today is something that I’ve come to be highly dependent on: Launchy. Launchy is an application launcher which is run completely by the keyboard. You use a special keystroke combination (on my computer, it’s Windows+Space) and [...]
For any of you out there who have an interest in strategy, game theory, prisoner’s dilemma, etc… here’s a scenario to think about: My friend Lester is coming to visit this weekend after a long semester at Tulane Medical School. And, after a nice brunch with the rest of the NextGen gang, and right before [...]
This is absolutely amazing: [Tencent is] a genuine concern for the Chinese government, which now fears that the QQ is deflating the official yuan. “QQ” is the virtual currency created by Tencent, China’s largest instant messaging platform based in Shenzen. Originally, Tencent sold QQ as a fun way for customers to purchase online games, greeting [...]
Now that Google has purchased YouTube, there is now one leading source of internet video. Of course, that also means one leading source of pirated content. No small wonder then, that Google is partnering with a number of music firms to “bring thousands of music videos to Google Video via free, ad-supported on-demand streams.” What [...]
lifehacker gives a review on the new Google Reader that I’ve been touting for some time. For you Bloglines people: Google Reader lacks hideous Bloglines teal bar (although you can remove that with a Greasemonkey script — I mentioned Greasemonkey the last time I was touting Firefox ) Google Reader on “startup” shows summaries of [...]
I’ve previously made a comparison between Yahoo and Google services. What about their search engine? Which is better, Google or Yahoo? Or, more appropriately, how closely do their results line up? Yahoo vs Google allows you to do a search string and then see how their results match up on a Flash interface. GahooYoogle.com splits [...]
http://www.nysun.com/article/39212 I don’t know if this is funny or just plain sad. I know that everytime I get an email from someone that has the line at the bottom “this email was sent by my blackberry”, I think to myself “loser” or how lucky I am that, although email is a big big part of [...]