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Google adding Chrome Desktop Notification for Gmail

01/28/2011 Cool Apps In the News No Comments

This is pretty interesting, I was in my gmail this morning, and noticed a message that I can enable desktop alerts just by using Google Chrome. Now you can get chat / email alerts without popping back and forth from your work to your gmail account. To activate the feature,…

Webmojo.ca relaunched!

01/13/2011 In the News Thoughts & Rants No Comments

Woo, well I’m happy to announce that after slaving away on a few dark wintery nights, I have put enough time into building a new version for my consulting company — Webmojo.ca About Webmojo… Webmojo is a collaborative effort by skilled individuals, each with their own unique set of skills…

Apple Nano Watches?

11/17/2010 Apple In the News Thoughts & Rants No Comments

This is ultimately pretty cool, but very unusable as an every day piece. I really like my watch for the simple fact that it is always reliable, I never have to worry about charging it, the battery dies once in a blue moon (every couple years), plus I don’t own…

Auto Industry’s Fastest Processor Is 128Mhz

11/15/2010 In the News Thoughts & Rants 5 Comments

Found this on Slashdot, and found it really interesting that the ‘top of the line’ microprocessor is only 128Mhz with 3mb onboard flash memory. Yeah I’m sure that it has to ‘survive’ environmental conditions that most CPU’s don’t but come on. You can put the processor outside of the engine…

Windows 7 Icons not showing up or broken issue

07/24/2010 In the News SysAdmin No Comments

I got a strange bug the other day, where my Windows 7 icons would disappear, simply reverting to blank icons, even tho right clicking on the icon > properties, resulted in an image of the programs icon. So I did a quick search and found a valid solution… to delete…

Drag images into your email messages using Gmail

05/13/2010 In the News Javascript Thoughts & Rants No Comments

I read this morning that Google added the ‘drag-n-drop’ feature to image attachments to mail. Which is pretty exciting because if you think about it, you are really dragging an image INTO a browser. I’m really curious what type of Javascript handling you need behind the scenes in order to…

Fallout: New Vegas – Fall 2010

02/12/2010 In the News No Comments

Woo, Fallout: New Vegas is due for Fall 2010, I'm excited. This looks like possibly a 'refresh' of the canceled Van Buren game? Not sure, but I'm excited from the trailer, I just love the "War... War Never Changes" with the addition of o'l Frank Sinatra - Blue Moon.