By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] A while back, I wrote about the RSS feeds that I use to look for stories. Well I have now come across another potential source of new online information, albeit a slower, more laborious one. inSuggest is a service that scans your Del.icio.us bookmarks, and based on the sites […]
The following video shows an interesting demo of an experimental user interface for a future mobile version of Firefox. This is well worth the watch for those of you who are anxiously waiting for a good browser to be released on their favorite mobile platform. Yes, yes, I know, the browser on the iPhone already […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] One of the extensions that will NOT be graduating with the Firefox class of 2008 will be Google Browser Sync after the company decided to consign it to the internet graveyard. It seems the team responsible for its development has “moved onto other projects” (is that like a politician […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Mozilla has finally announced the release date for Firefox 3 – Tuesday June 17th – 5 days from now. Mark it in your calendars folks! It’s taken 34 months to develop Firefox 3 and anticipation is high. I tried out one of the preview versions when I was helping […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Being a Brit in Germany, I am constantly learning the German language and I know a lot of Germans constantly learning the English language. So Lingro is a perfect web app for all of us. It’s a translation tool but with a nice difference. Normally if you want to […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] In what must be the biggest tease ever on the internet (9 months and counting), the new Delicious 2.0 is still not available, leading me to believe that one of the following scenarios applies : Delicious is missing, perhaps dead. Delicious has been put into deep stasis and blasted […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] I’m sure you’ve all seen Google’s new icon by now. Instead of the nice smart looking Google icon that has been around for the last 8 years or so, we now have this ugly looking stringy blue “g”. The person who designed it should slapped behind the head and […]
By Mark O’Neill Twitter has been crashing so much lately that it isn’t news when it goes down. But now, in an ironic twist, a mini-industry seems to be springing up to cater to Twitter users for when the service is not available. No, it’s not tea and sandwiches. No, not 24 hour suicide watch […]
By Mark O’Neill
I went to Disney World today – well not the real Disney World, rather I went to the online digital version, courtesy of Google Earth. Not as good as the real thing obviously but it’s as near as I’m ever going to get to it. The Google Earth version doesn’t give you the chance to sit on Mickey Mouse’s knee (although I am rather partial to Minnie myself).
The online version of Disney World comes courtesy of the latest version of Google Earth and I have to admit it’s not bad. It didn’t have me jumping up and down for joy but then again I’m not five years old either. The graphics were pretty good and smooth and by clicking on Mickey’s ears, you could go to different areas of the park. But the big downside was that Google Earth was chewing up huge amounts of my CPU (300,000K +) which meant I had to shut down everything else to keep it going. I seriously hope the CPU thing was a temporary glitch otherwise this visit will be a one-off!
By Mark O’Neill
Google have announced their latest project – Google Health – which is a service where you can have your entire medical history uploaded into your Google account. But before you start hyper-ventilating, Google has promised that everything in your medical records will be password-protected and therefore will not be publicly indexed in Google Search (I certainly hope not!).
The whole theory behind Google Health is that wherever you go in the world, your medical history will follow you. I mean, how many times have you relocated to another part of the country or another country altogether and your medical records have been lost? Mine have been lost more times than I care to remember so Google Health wants to help people keep their records in the one place, fully organized and fully digitized. Never again will they go missing.