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Archive for May, 2007

Google Gears Gives Off-line Access to Data

When I read about Google Gears (Beta) this morning, it really didn’t click with me until I read LifeHacker’s article explaining how to use it to read you Google Reader RSS feeds off-line. LifeHacker also mentions off line support is possibly in the works for GMail and Google Docs as well.
If Google wants to compete [...]

DotNetNuke = Cheeky Monkeys

Version 4.5.2 of DotNetNuke was released on May 29, 2007. Since I’m still heavily developing the site redesign for work in DotNetNuke, I downloaded the upgrade and installed it. It was a simple enough upgrade and worked flawlessly (as far as I can tell).
One thing did bug me. The SEARCH feature added two radio buttons [...]

Gas Prices, The Maxx, Instructables, and 100 Scary Scenes

Quite a few good finds in today’s Digg and RSS feeds, but none quite worthy of a full post, so it’s a list of links today:
Why is Gas so Expensive is not only a good explanation what goes into gas production, it actually explained several terms I hear around the office quite a bit. Definitely [...]

Update: Silver Surfer and the Law Breaking Quarter

It looks like 20th Century Fox should have done a little more research before releasing 40,000 Silver Surfer themed quarters into circulation over the Memorial Day weekend. Created by the Franklin Mint, the quarter violates federal law and the U.S. Mint isn’t happy.
The U.S. Mint said in a news release Friday that it learned of [...]

Update: WizardWorld.com Redesign (Wizard Magazine)

About 2 weeks ago I made a post about the redesign of Wizard Magazine’s web presence. WizardWorld.com seems to show slightly out of date content, but all links connect to the WizardUniverse.com domain. Many other sites and forums echoed my opinions. It looked like the world wide web universe generally agreed.
I guess Wizard agreed [...]

SuperFriends: Big Foot

In today’s cartoon, Apache Chief, Batman and Robin have to stop a group of intelligent Big Foot (or would that be Big Feet…Big Foots?). Enjoy.