TiVo making a come back? Watch out Apple TV.

I personally have never owned a TiVo box, primarily because I knew there were a number of DVRs on the market that did not require a monthly subscription and I didn’t see the benefit to paying $12/month for something I thought I could get for a one time fee. TiVo and Amazon have signed a deal...

Mar 25, 2007 6 minute read.

Google App Engine: Google I/O 2008 Part I

This week I, as well as my Wife Barbara , and my co-worker Dan , went to Google I/O . People who have read my blog for a while may remember that last year I attended Google Developer Day around this same time in San Jose. This year Google decided to expand from a single-day to a whole two-day...

Jun 01, 2008 4 minute read.

The Opening Keynote: Google I/O Part II

Google is following its trend from last year’s Google Developer Day by posting up videos of all of the sessions on YouTube, but so far I can only find the Opening Keynote. They promised that they would upload them all within a week, so expect more parts of my reviews of Google I/O as they become...

Jun 01, 2008 4 minute read.

Interview with Nick Moline published in PC World Magazine!

Ok, I admit it, I haven’t been a subscriber to PC World magazine in a few years, even before I became a member of the Mac camp, but I’m really excited to say that a couple of interview questions with me are now published in PC World! in an article about Google I/O. It was very cool to be able to...

Jun 02, 2008 1 minute read.

Amazon down but not out

Amazon.com is experiencing an outage, the most complete I’ve ever seen on the site. The last time I saw an outage on the site was Christmas before last when they were offering mad sales to the first 100 customers on certain items, but even then they had a helpful error page, rather than just a...

Jun 06, 2008 1 minute read.

Amazon Still down, money down too

I previously reported that Amazon.com was down with a non-descriptive error message. After almost 2 of downtime it seems they’ve decided to have a friendlier error message , so it seems at least they are acknowledging that something is wrong now, but it is still down. According to CNet, this...

Jun 06, 2008 1 minute read.

Facebook - whoops there goes another major site!

Two weeks ago I posted about Amazon.com being down for hours , tonight, another major website has gone down without warning, and has a very ugly error message, just like Amazon did. At this time the error message (shown on the right) has been up for at least 20 minutes with no sign of repair, in...

Jun 19, 2008 1 minute read.

Blogging on the iPhone

I’ve blogged from my iPhone before so this isn’t exactly new, but this post was written using the new WordPress iPhone native app just released in the app store today. I like it! As an update, I still haven’t acquired a new iPhone 3G, but JMac seems to have finally joined the iPhone revolution...

Jul 22, 2008 1 minute read.

GMail Down

In the latest in my ongoing series of Major websites experiencing outages, GMail has been down for at least the last hour. Google’s Mail service is excellent and over all I’ve always been pleased with it. Their servers are redundant, I don’t have problems with lost email messages, and the spam...

Aug 11, 2008 2 minute read.

All Primed Up: Amazon is Brilliant

I’ve been a member of Amazon Prime for over about 2 years now, and I was just thinking today what brilliant marketing it is. By paying a nominal yearly fee, I get free two day shipping, or really cheap next day shipping on everything I buy from them, but does it save me any money? See before I...

Aug 27, 2008 2 minute read.

Google I/O 2012 Here I come

I’m all registered to go to Google I/O 2012 on June 27, 2012. I’ve been to every Google I/O so far (and Google Developer Day before that ) and am really looking forward to going again. The price was really hiked up this year ($900 as opposed to $450 last year), but they have done away with the...

Mar 13, 2012 1 minute read.

What's all the Hubbub about anyway?

I’ve been fighting with the PubSubHubbub protocol over the last few days. I apologize for the test posts which have been causing annoyances to what few readers I actually have. For those of you who have no idea what PubSubHubbub is, it is a method of allowing people to get updates about new blog...

Mar 20, 2012 2 minute read.

Google's Code Mistake, and what they did to make it right

A Coding Challenge to get into Google I/O 2012 went awry when Google's developers made a simple validation mistake

Apr 19, 2012 5 minute read.

You'll never probably need to delete another message

Remember when GMail first came out ? 1GB of email was unheard of, especially in a free service at the time. One of Google’s big selling points was “ you’ll never need to delete another message. ” It was right there on the home page. If you compare the home pages from 2004 and today for Gmail...

Apr 24, 2012 3 minute read.

Web Intents are Great | Web Intents are Horrible

Web Intents in Google Chrome 19+ changed what happens when you view an Atom or RSS Link, here's how to get your XML Back

May 30, 2012 2 minute read.

Getting full resolution on a Macbook Pro Retina Display

UPDATE 2012-06-18: My Justia colleague, Dan Vu Quoc , has let me know that the 3rd party shareware Screen Resolution utility for Mac SwitchResX is capable of pushing the Macbook Pro with Retina Display’s resolution up to the full 2880 by 1600 resolution even when not plugged into an external...

Jun 16, 2012 5 minute read.

Google I/O 2012 starts tomorrow morning

Google I/O is almost here, and the Google Developers have created a nifty widget for enabling the live stream of the video on your blog, as well as embedding my own Google+ stream as a Live Blog of sorts, so head on after the break for my live blog where I will post about the stream while it...

Jun 26, 2012 1 minute read.

Losing my Geek Cred: Nick.pro hacked

If you attempted to visit my blog on Friday using either Firefox or Chrome, you most likely received a warning that the site was compromised and dangerous. While I’m still not sure how they got through, I can tell you that my blog was compromised. Code was injected into the site in every place...

Nov 12, 2012 3 minute read.