If you’ve been paying attention to the news you’ve probably seen announcements for a couple of new Google products, including “Google Trends”:http://www.google.com/trends. Another newly released product now making waves is “Google SketchUp”:http://sketchup.google.com/, a recently acquired 3D modeling suite that is now free, with the added feature of being able to build native 3D objects for… Read More Google ventures into 3D modeling
Amazon.com decided to give me a 4-month free trial to their “‘Amazon Prime’”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/13819211/qid=1147053110/sr=1-1/002-7197462-6463219 service. Amazon Prime is a $79/yr subscription service in which members get free two-day shipping on all items with no order minimum (they discount overnight shipping pretty heavily too). By default Amazon already offers free ‘Super Saver’ economy shipping on qualifying orders… Read More Amazon Prime free trial
A company called “Blue Security”:http://www.bluesecurity.com/ has an intriguing new anti spam concept. It’s intended to provide active spam prevention rather than the passive blocking schemes I’ve usually seen. The idea is that they use their large (400k+) user base to identify spam and issue complaints to the originating sites, with their software automating the process.… Read More New anti-spam tool
I’ve not posted much the last couple of days since I spent most of yesterday travelling to Utah to visit Elisabeth. I left Easley at 3:30am to catch my flight and finally arrived in St. George at 4:15pm. It made for a long day, but it’s been really good to be here already, and now… Read More My Trip
“ReactOS”:http://www.reactos.org/xhtml/en/index.html is taking an unusual tack from most other free-OS developers. Rather than building a new UNIX-based distribution, their goal is to create an operating system that is completely binary compatible with Microsoft Windows using only open source code. That means it should be able to install and run both applications and drivers designed for… Read More Windows clone
Welcome to my new website! I’ve been wanting something for quite a while but I’ve just started working on this in the last week or so. Hopefully I’ll be able to post frequently and keep it interesting.… Read More First post