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Google Predictions 2010

My Gmail predictions for 2009 failed miserably. I may have been guilty of wishful thinking.

So, continuing on the theme of wishful thinking, here are my 2010 predictions:

Google Library: the Google Books project will be expanded to allow for book rental, with appropriate payments to the copyright holders. This will not only give access to hard [...]

My Swiss chalet treehouse: final touches

The next step was to finish the roof structure in preparation for the steel roof, ordered from Dunn Lumber.

We chose a red roof to match some of the red tile and rusted steel roofs of some chalets in Switzerland. G. also provided some sample-size windows – two on the South side and one on [...]

My Swiss chalet treehouse – Inspiration and Sketches

I wanted to document my Swiss chalet treehouse for a few friends that have expressed interest in the project. I’ve thought for several years about building a treehouse, a shed, or both, in my backyard. The kids had heard this so many times they were treating it like another castle in Spain. And yet, this [...]

"Whoadmitsyou.com" Social Virus

Link to Msn Messenger status detector. We will tell you who blocked your msn account

Google Cache:

This questionable service – finding out who has blocked and deleted you in MSN is either:

a social VIRUS, preying on your deepest wish to find out who doesn’t like you
a phishing scam,
a hacking exploit into MSN
a reverse [...]

Finally: a Blackberry that plays media files

As a recent 8700 owner, I could ot understand why my streaming speed capable device couldn’t play media files. I had a theory that RIM didn’t want the additional data load on their servers – looks like I was wrong. With Blackberry’s new device, this functionality is unveiled and – hopefully, will be available for [...]

PDA Testing

PDA Browser Spoofing

One effective technique for basic PDA smoke testing is to use browser spoofing, in effect making a desktop browser lie about its identity to the server and thereby requesting a PDA version of a page.

Spoofing Advantages & Disadvantages

Spoofing is useful to look at pages and track basic functionality, [...]

What color is this?

Many hours are lost by the analyst trying to figure out what color(s) is used in a Web site. To simplify this task, I recommend two different tools:

Colorzilla, a Firefox extension which places a color picker in the status bar, and helps determine the color of any item in a Web page in Firefox.
Cpick, an [...]