Here are some interesting links from today:
- iPhone, Blackberry locked in titanic struggle for supremacy
Determining exactly what impact the new iPhone will have on RIM's chunk of the smartphone market appears to be tricker than you might think, though. At least one market analyst seems to think RIM is doomed…
- The New iGoogle Gets Full Screen Gmail
Now the Gmail gadget can go full screen, and it looks and feels very much like regular old Gmail. You can read, compose, and archive email just as you would from Gmail (no labeling yet). Likewise, RSS feeds now look and feel very much like Google Reader.
Here are some interesting links from today:
- Portable Gmail Contacts
Google Contacts Autocomplete is a Greasemonkey script that brings your Gmail contacts everywhere you go on the web. When you start to type the name of your friend or his email address, the script shows a list of suggestions.
- Gmail and Google Calendar to Add Offline Support
It seems that this year Google's most popular web applications will work offline. After Google Reader and Google Docs, two other services will integrate with Gears. Gmail and Google Calendar will add offline support in approximately 6 weeks.
- Updates to Gmail contact manager
We've heard from some of you that Gmail's auto-added contacts can lead to too much address book clutter. One of the advantages of automatically creating contacts is that all of the addresses you email subsequently show up in auto-complete.
- Cleaner skies explain surprise rate of warming
GOODBYE air pollution, hello brighter days. That's been the trend in Europe for the past 30 years; unfortunately cleaning up the skies has allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere, contributing to at least half the warming that has occurred
Unless you live under a rock you know the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, opens tomorrow. Heath Ledger plays The Joker in what is rumored to be his best performance ever…
The buzz over Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker in “The Dark Knight” for the last several months was justified. With his final full film role, Ledger delivers what may be remembered as the finest performance of his career.
On a lighter note, here’s The Dark Knight trailor made by kids…
Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:
Here are some interesting links from today:
- The supercomputers of Oak Ridge National Lab
Oak Ridge National Lab, which is a DoE research, is probably most famous for being the place where the first plutonium was processed. But these days, it is a hotbed of research into materials sciences, energy efficiency and, of course, supercomputing.
- Congressman Culberson Pioneers Real Time Representation
I discovered the extent and potential of social media this past May, and I will keep expanding my use of these tools beyond Qik, Twitter, Utterz and Ustream to communicate with constituents and anyone interested in a polite thoughtful debate/discussion.
