links for 2006-08-04
- Photoshop CS2 HDR A really wonderful photography site describes a technique for making digital photos really pop. (tags: hdr digital [photography](http://del.icio...
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August 2006
When is a native app not a native app?
Quite interesting analysis (at least to us Geeks) showing that the notion of a ‘WIndows XP’ standard or native UI is actually a myth. Read it here: Prashant Deva’s blog: How many of your Windows apps use the native Windows UI?
Mail rule to catch image spam
This is Mac specific, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people with more primitive computers could do something analogous. Basically we create a Mail rule that matches image spam messages: “The rule is based off of Bill’s observation that these spam emails always come from a different address, and the content type header (as you might now assume) begins with multipart/related'” Read more: A Mail.app rule for catching image spam – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
The role of RSS in Science Publishing
This article: The Role of RSS in Science Publishing: Syndication and Annotation on the Web is a very interesting survey of RSS and issues that folks in the Science community have to be aware of.
links for 2006-08-03
- FlightStats – Worldwide flight status / tracker with historical performance data Comprehensive airport and flight information: delays, actual times, estimated times, scores etc. (tags: travel [flight](http://de...
New York Times from the future
Look closely at this screen grab off the New York Times site. It was published on August 6, 2006. Look at the calendar on the wall. It’s only August 2, at least here in Boston. Maybe time moves quicker in New York? 
Technorati Tags: funny, newyorktimes
links for 2006-08-02
- My Brain Doesn’t Work That Way An interesting bit of ‘UI’ in MySpace for those of you who are interested in following this kind of stuff! (tags: myspace [customization](http://del.icio.us/...
Look closely: it’s a mermaid!
Yeah this is extraordinarily weird. As Yakov Smirnov says: “America, What a country!” It’s from EBay. Anyone want to bid? 
Technorati Tags: weird
July 2006
Check out BlogBridge 3.0
Just announced over on the BlogBridge site, BlogBridge 3.0. Check it out! I think you’ll like it. It has lots of new goodies, too many to mention here, but see the announcement for the juicy details!
links for 2006-07-28
- Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Why we all sell code with bugs Fun article about why there’s always bugs in software. If that’s a surprise to you, well… read this article! (tags: [software](http://del.icio.us/pitos...
“The Search” – A good read for most of you
If you read my blog chances are you’ll really enjoy John Batelle’s book The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
links for 2006-07-26
Guy Kawasaki misses the most important ‘Art of Firing’
Kurzweil AI.net has some good stuff
I knew about this site but recently came across a link to another quite interesting article, “Why We Can be Confident of Turing Test Capability Within a Quarter of a Century”. Yes, Kurzweil’s books are too long and repetitive, and he does hold some unusual views, but ...
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Has my email somehow been hacked?
Ok, oh wise listeners out there. Here’s what’s happened to me twice now in the last week. Basically I receive a large number of email bounce messages which were sent ‘from’ xxx@blogbridge.com, where I never heard of xxx. And there are a ton of different xxx’s. When I say a large number, it’s aroun...
Read more →Web Innovators meetup Monday, July 24th
Yes the meetups keep on coming fast and furious. Check out the “Boston Web Innovators Group” meeting, which is happening July 24th (yes that’s this coming Monday.) I’ll be there! Technorati Tags: geekdinner
links for 2006-07-21
- Backbase – DevNet One of the many ajax libraries. Also check out Dojo. (tags: ajax) - Graffletopia A site containing a collection of Graffle stencils, for all you Graffle users out there! (tags: graffle stencil soflow)
links for 2006-07-20
Reminder: Tomorrow, Geek Dinner, July 19 (tomorrow!)
Just a quick reminder that we are having another super-informal-geeky-but-not-exclusively-geeks Geek Dinner, and we have a lovely new location, sponsored by our friends at Permabit. The location is on First Street, in Cambridge, MA, USA, in the so-called Davenport Building, on the second floor. See you there! Here are the coordinates: > When: July 19, Wednesday, 6:30pm to 9:30pm Where: Permabit, 25 First Street, 2nd Floor. Across from the Galleria Mall. Topics of discussion: AJAXPHPOPMLRSSJAVAETC Please confirm your attendance by clicking here!