Archive for January, 2006

Google Online Bookmarks

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

One of the new features in the Google Toolbar 4 is Google Bookmarks. It turns out that you can access the Google Bookmarks from a web browser also.

Google Toolbar 4 beta available

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Matt Cutts is writing in his blog that Google Toolbar 4 beta available.
Main feaures:

Suggestions as you type
Send web pages via email (or blog, or SMS)
Server-side bookmarks

For some reason I was not able to install it on Firefox 1.5.

Google Toolbar 4 beta

Times are changing for online video

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Media companies have been extremely careful about selling content online. Now they are offering TV shows online through the Itunes store.
And now they have started to do something even more unthinkable just a year ago, selling TV shows online before they air.
The shows might not be the hottest shows around, the Comedy Central “Drawn […]

Ultimate PC - 2006 Edition

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

I give a lot of advice on what gadgets and PC to buy to friends. Many are impressed by my two Dell 2005fpw. I run it from a 2.4 GHz Pentium with Raid 0. The performance is ok. I also have a low-end tuner card in it. The graphics card only has one DVI, so […]

Bought some new Canon lenses

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I recently bought the Canon 17-40 mm and 85mm 1.8. The cheaper 85mm is really great considering the cost, around 370 dollar. This is one of my favorite pictures ever.

The picture is taken with a Canon 10D and a Canon EF 85mm 1.8 in southern Mindanao, Philippines.

Gmail Imap import script

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

I have now completed a script for importing imap email folders to Gmail. It is not 100% automatic and it does stop for some reason once in a while. And there are some possible spam issues. I have therefore decided not put the script online for now.
I did import more than a thousand email, many […]

iPod Hi-Fi

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Apple insider is reporting that Apple has filed for the trademark “iPod Hi-Fi”. If this is a general filing or if they are really planning to make better sounding iPods is unclear at the moment. We hope for the latter.

What a mess

Monday, January 16th, 2006

I have been looking into SMTP, Mime and other mail-related stuff for my Gmail import app. It is really messy. Even worse than state of HTML.
There a no mail clients that can decode and parse 100% of all mail. Many come close enough but creating a new mail standard with the inclusion of certificates […]