Archive for July, 2009
Google Wave
On May 28, Google unveiled their newest product, called Wave. I just finished watching the nearly 1 1/2 hour demo video from the Google IO event, and was impressed. Google has rolled email, instant messaging and online collaboration of documents into one nice package. This brief description doesn't give Wave justice, so following is a little bit [...]
3D Animations for Safari
I'm not sure how useful this will be, but you gotta admit it's pretty cool. I ran across an article at TUAW that talks about Safari's upcoming CSS 3D transform features. Charles Ying put together a demo of it. If you take a look at the article, you'll find out how you can install a Webkit build to experience the 3D prettiness on your own [...]
Ubuntu 9.04 vs. Mac OS X
I ran across a Linux Magazine Article by Nathan Willis that compared the latest Ubuntu release to the current version of Mac OS X. Apparently Mark Shuttleworth told a journalist that he was looking at OS X as the operating system to beat. I suppose he feels he finally has Windows beat. Anyway, the article goes into pretty good detail as it [...]
Microsoft Office Goes Online
Fortune Magazine reports that Microsoft has finally decided to make the move to offer their Office suite as an online application. Products like Google Apps have been dominating the online document market for a while now, and Microsoft wants in on it. They're being careful not to shoot themselves in the foot by offering a slimmed down version [...]
Google Apps Out of Beta
If you're anything like me, you love Gmail, and are growing to love the rest of Google's web apps - calendar, docs, sites, etc. Google officially announced on Tuesday that its apps are finally out of beta. Anyone that has used them for any length of time knows that according to 'normal' beta software standards, these apps have been out of beta [...]
TechJolt Coming Back to Life
I've severely neglected this site. I'm making a promise to myself to keep things update a little better so that things don't go static like it has been for, wow..4 months. For those of you still reading, thanks. For those of you just happening across the site, stick around. This won't happen again.
