Scott’s penguin sketches found
Penguin sketches made by Captain Scott and Ernest Shackleton are found at Cambridge University. Powered by ScribeFire.
links for 2007-12-21
Remember The Milk for Gmail The RTM blog reports on their new GMail integration tool. (tags: gmail firefox gtd Google rememberthemilk rtm tools) The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1) The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available for download. It’s an official release, not a beta. (tags: microsoft [...]
Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost
Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include Google’s co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/technology/18solar.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
links for 2007-12-18
FireWire speeds set to quadruple On Thursday, the 1394 Trade Association announced the S3200 electrical specification for FireWire. The specification builds upon the existing IEEE 1394b standard by boosting the maximum speed from 800 megabits per second to 3.2Gbps. (tags: firewire 1394 speed s3200) Map extensions for Firefox Whether you refer to online maps occasionally [...]
The Bible According To Google Earth
What if we’d had Google Earth and satellite imagery back in the day? Here is some interesting artwork depicting Biblical events as if a sattelite took the photos.
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http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/the-bible-according-to-google-earth/
Microsoft Bloggers Release Office 2007 Powertoys
Here is a list of Powertoys for Office 2007. Most of them revolve around One Note but still a handy list.
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http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!2621.entry
links for 2007-12-17
Google debuts knowledge project If you missed all the hubub last week, Google has kicked off a project to create an authoritative store of information about any and every topic. Aimed at the niche that Wikipedia currently fills. (tags: computer Google Information internet knowledge media new news portal reference web wiki Wikipedia knol)
RSS To Speech Gadget
Here is an RSS news reader gadget for for Google Desktop and Vista Sidebar. This gadget downloads RSS feeds from any Web sites and then reads them using Text-to-Speech and shows the feeds on a black screen.Vista ships with a voice installed.
Shortcuts for your WordPress blog
Jeremy Zawodny has news of a new plugin for Wordpress from Yahoo! Yahoo! Shortcuts Wordpress Plug-In is supposed to help as an assistant looking for links, images and other shortcuts. He links to a video that will help explain it.
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http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/12/13/shortcuts-for-your-wordpress-blog/
Sync your Google Calendar with your Blackberry
Your Google Calendar stays synchronized whether you access it from your computer or your phone. You can add or edit entries right on your BlackBerry® smartphone or on your Google Calendar on the web.