Well if you have only been reading in your feed reader, you may not have noticed that the site has a distinctly more… pink look. No, it’s not an accident. I promise my daughter didn’t attack my graphics with her favorite color. Indeed, it’s actually…
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As one of the rare breed called the ‘female geek’, I have to admit that I was initially proud that some women had won the Yahoo! Hack Day top prize. That is, until I read what they made… Diana Eng, Emily Albinski and Audrey Roy…
So that’s the question I’m pondering today. With the advent of the new Parallels Desktop for Mac, will Mac users who’ve clung to their IE 5.5 ditch the legacy browser for the ability to run the newer versions of IE through Parallels? I’m really not…
When I heard about the new IMVU I had to wonder if this was the next step in chat. At this point, my money is on that answer being a yes. Essentially, IMVU is this (here’s a quote from their site): IMVU is the world’s…
I found OpenLaszlo recently and I am definitely intrigued. Laszlo (which I continually misspell Lazlo) carries the tagline an open-souce platform for rich internet applications. I think it definitely fits that description from what I’ve seen. Laszlo is powered by a language called LZX, the…
An excellent article on the new OpenSearch technology from A9 can be found on Last-child.com, along with a full explanatoin of what the technology is, and how it can be used. I look forward to playing with it more in the future, and will post…
Most people, even the non-technical of the world, have had some invention idea that they think would make their lives easier or better. For those interested in computers, there is a contest going on to help you make your ‘Dream App’ come true. The site,…
It looks like Lycos is stepping up to the plate of oversized email accounts. They are now offering a 3gig free email account option for sign-up. The free account is, of course, ad-supported, but what isn’t these days? No big deal there. Looks like the…
Well, Writely is back, and now re-open for public release. I wrote about Writely before since I was an early account holder. Writely has been closed to new users now for several months, but if you are interested in trying it out, you have open…
Microsoft has launched their Dreamweaver competition product in a free trial download. The new product is called Microsoft Expression Web Designer (MEWD). The Microsoft page touts the following as their most highlighted features of the product: Standards-based Web sites Sophisticated CSS-based layouts Extensive CSS formatting…