17June2008

Firefox 3

Firefox celebrates its third edition today. Please download it and use it if you like the Internet. There are TONS of updates with this release. Most importantly it’s less intensive on memory and it’s faster than ever.

Drop IE and go Firefox.

10June2008

Google Streetview Turns 1

Google Maps feature Streetview has turned one year old today.  To celebrate they added 37 new areas and expanded coverage for 15 areas.

MA: Springfield

NY: Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse

NJ: Newark

VA: Virginia Beach

NC: Charlotte, Winston-Salem

SC: Columbia, Greenville

GA: Atlanta

FL: Boca Raton, Cape Coral, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Sarasota, West Palm Beach

AL: Huntsville

MS: Jackson

TN: Knoxville

KY: Lexington, Louisville

OH: Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo

MI: Ann Arbor

MO: St. Louis

KS: Topeka

NE: Lincoln

OK: Oklahoma City, Tulsa

NV: Reno

CA: Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento, Stockton

The best part for me is they added several Ohio cities, including Columbus and its suburbs.

And as an added bonus they got a photo of my Dad’s ass…. just in time for Father’s Day. I don’t think their face blurring technology will fix that. He’s not going to be pleased when I show him.

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The coverage of Ohio is impressive.

You can read more about the update at the Google Lat Long Blog.

15April2008

Google Earth 4.3

Google is releasing an update to Google Earth today. The update will feature (but not limited to):

Realtime Sunlight

New navigational controls

Streetview in Google Earth

Google Sky Loads Quicker

If you haven’t familarized yourself with Google Earth recently, it’s time to get reaquainted.

Also, the picture to the left contains all actual data. The clouds and sunlight were in realtime when viewing. How is that not cool?

9April2008

Sketchcast

Sketchcast debuted last September, but I’m not sure I posted about it.

It allows you to record sketches in real time and then show them off. You can embed them as well. It’s easier to draw with a graphics pad rather than a mouse.

25March2008

Stop Using Internet Explorer 6!

So, Internet Explorer 7 came out months ago. But a scary percentage of people still use IE6. They have it install on the computers here at my workplace. A group of people have started a website dedicated to upgrading peoples browsers so that compatibility is easier to achieve.

From Techcrunch:

“Which is why a group of them have created SaveTheDevelopers.org, an organization dedicated to making the Web a better place for developers (and thus for users as well). Web developers can grab a piece of code to put on their Websites which will detect if a visitor is using an outmoded browser (IE6, cough). When the offending browser is detected, a pop-down window will appear (assuming those aren’t blocked) which will direct the user to a page where they can upgrade to IE7, or the latest version of Firefox or Safari.”

Spread the message. I’ve just installed this website with the script. By the way this website looks like crap when viewed in IE6 anyway.

24March2008

Hulu

Hulu, the joint venture from NBC Universal and Fox to show created content online for free just opened up to the public not too long ago. So if you miss one of your favorite NBC or Fox shows, and don’t have DVR check them out.

You can even embed full episodes on the web. Like this:

4March2008

Turn A Graphing Calculator Into An Intervalometer

Check out this Instructable.

I did it myself and it worked, which prevents me from laying down a couple hundred dollars to do the same thing.

16February2008

I love Flickr

I just got this message when I signed in to Flickr today:

7February2008

Google Adds Forms To Google Docs

Google recently added a very cool feature for Google Spreadsheets. You can now create forms to collect data and have it automatically entered into a spreadsheet.

You can read more here: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-sharing-spreadsheets-start.html

Also with Google Docs you can embed a spreadsheet or chart into any webpage, and you can even set it to update in real time with every change made to the document.

31January2008

Never Forget

As my first post on the WyomingJarbo.blog, I thought it fitting to remember that today is the one year anniversary of a very important event - the Boston Aqua Teen Hunger Force Hoax Massacre. Okay… perhaps it wasn’t a massacre. But those “hoax devices” caused quite a disturbance. NEVER FORGET.

Enjoy this moving and emotional video montage.