How to Create a Modified Laptop with Mac Mini

We have lusted after the MacBook Pro for some time. We were on the verge of buying one, after we realized a few things:

We don’t like typing on laptop keyboards
We don’t like using laptop trackpads
We don’t like the positioning of laptop screens
We prefer portrait to landscape displays (we have found portrait displays better for [...]

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Google Blog Search

We do a lot of research online. Of course we use Google. However, one of the problems is there is a lot of business produced information which is mostly promotional and not truth based. However, blogs tend to be better. Unfortunately, companies are beginning to create blogs, which is a problem, becuase companies are not [...]

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Job Feeds and RSS

We think that job searching is a perfect application of feed technology. This is because job searching requires going the same thing over and over again (finding the site, entering the search terms, reviewing the output). We thought we would do a little research to see how common job search RSS feeds are in common [...]

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Mac Finder Should Emulate Opera Browser

Opera Tab Filter
In our last post we heralded the fantastic tab filter technology in the Opera browser. This functionality is not new, but we someone missed it for some time (actually we do not know when it was introduced).
http://infoknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/opera-tab-window-filter/
Working With It
What this functionality does is allow a large number of tabs or windows within [...]

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Interesting Comment on Google Services vs MobileMe

This is from Engadget.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/t-mobile-g1-review-part-2-software-and-wrap-up/
Accurate or not, the phrase “it just works” has been closely tied to the Apple camp for eons — and obviously, the iPhone tries to ooze that mantra from its every pore. Without ever having made a phone, though, Google already had a leg up in delivering on this promise to handsets [...]

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Wow – The Nike Website

We had to stop and write a quick article about the Nike website. We stopped by for a purchase and were amazed with the interactive features of this site. If this is the future of how the web will look it makes us pretty excited. However, an interface like this could just as well work [...]

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Netflix and the Long Tail

This is an interesting development that is worth writing a post about. Some of you may be Netflix subscribers, but most likely all of you have heard of Netflix. Netflix grew from a small operation in a business that most people would have guessed had no real upside – that is the rental of DVDs [...]

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The Future of MS Word

The development of Microsoft Word as the dominant form of creating documents in the world is an interesting one. Taking the mantle from Wordperfect, the original word processors developed before the internet. Word processors offered many writing enhancing capabilities that had no alternative a the time (spell check, text movement, etc..).

More sophisticated document engines like [...]

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