A blog about Art, Science and Technology
To synchoronize your Calendar & Contacts between your iPhone & Google. Indispensible.
The undistputed King of Pop who never wanted to get old, much less die, has died relatively young at the age of fifty. Blogosphere is probably abuz with this story as sudden as it happened with a report of a heart attack in the morning. Life is so unpredictable!
I just installed a new WP application for the iPhone which makes it super easy to blog. Now I should be able to blog even more as long as I have stuff to write about. It’s amazing how ubiqutous & easy it has become. I remember the early days of the Internet (God that makes me sound old) when it was so hard to update a web page (this is before blogging was invented). I created websites on tripod.com, xoom.com, geocities.com (which was recently discontinued by Yahoo). From telnet and FTP and HTML in notepad to ubiquitous Wi-Fi and smart phones, the times have changed so much! Are you having fun yet?
Scientific American has an extraordinary article about discoveries that astronomers are making with the technology of today: solar systems outside of our own. And they’re making amazing and sometimes shocking discoveries. Check out the article here.
I finally broke down and got a new iPhone! Just couldn’t resist the temptation.
Microsoft’s attempt at wrestling some market share from Google using its latest Search technology presented to the world at Bing.com seems a little more than a revised version of MSN Search (or whatever they called it before). What’s with the name? Is Microsoft trying to rhyme it with the old ping command. I could see Bing becoming a synonym for search: Did you Bing it? (as in Did you Google it?) I still think that it has no chance against Google – although I could be wrong, as a lot of analysts out there are saying it has potential. I see some bloat in the product right off the bat. My browser complained that there are some Silverlight components on the main page and I had to install the plugin to get going. Not good. Also, the structure seems to be copying Google’s style but the designers at Bing couldn’t resist adding some unnecessary stuff onto it just because…my only use of Bing has been out of curiousity as I’m sure the majority of the usage so far. If I were a Microsoft fanboy, I could see using Bing as my default search engine. Bing has a lot of work ahead of itself to compete with Google in my humble opinion.
