Archives for the 'The Interwebs' Category
Free Airport Wi-Fi thanks to Google
Posted on November 15th, 2009 by Brad
Google announced on Nov. 10th that they were sponsoring free Wi-Fi in a bunch of airports around the country until Jan. 15th, 2010 as a holiday gift. Basically a lot of airports offer Wi-Fi internet access through various companies such as Boingo but you usually have to pay like $5 or $10 to access it [...]
Carolyn Marasan, you’re an idiot… and I’m being conservative
Posted on August 26th, 2009 by Jon
Carolyn is a writer for Business Week, and recently published an article about 12 words to not get caught saying around the office. Go ahead and check out what she said before continuing on. I thought I’d take a peek since the list is IT related, and I work in IT. I’m no genius, but [...]
Firefox 3.5 is out
Posted on June 30th, 2009 by Brad
So, Firefox 3.5 was just released. I’ll try it out tonight probably but I just wanted to make a few comments. First, version 3.5 supports the HTML 5 <video> and <audio> tags which just re-enforces my “no flash on the iPhone, ever” theory because it means that even more of the industry is accepting the [...]
Forbes tests a Panasonic Toughbook CF-30
Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Brad
They do some interesting tests but to be honest, I don’t really care about this article (although the Toughbook is without a doubt the best “tough” laptop out there) since I have no need for a Toughbook. I just couldn’t pass up linking to the article though because of this:
and tried to back over it [...]
Gmail inline images… finally!
Posted on April 13th, 2009 by Jon
Since the conception of gmail, it has been my choice of web-based email programs. I made a complete switch a couple of years ago, and haven’t looked back. Grouping email threads, tags, and a couple of other features did not make sense to me at first. Now I am pissed that Outlook can’t do it [...]