May 2006

Just a few days back Google in their official blog mentioned about their new upcoming products. One of the product was Google Notebook , which is going to be launched next week. It is supposed to be a personal browser tool that lets you clip text, images, and links from the pages you're searching, save clippings to an online notebook, and then share notebooks with others.

A Google employee named Erica Joy has posted a number of screen shots of Google Notebook, which will launch next week at google.com/notebook. (I am not sure whether it was intentionally done or was uploaded by mistake)

Notebook looks like it is designed

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Apple is quite fond of filing for patents, especially those that surround its widely used iPods. But who can blame Apple for doing so? Any creative or unique idea could very well turn out to be a big revenue generator for Apple, considering that iPod and music sales make up a huge portion of Apple's income.

While the new patent doesn't cover a touch-screen iPod video, it does give light into a new navigation system that Apple is working on for future iPods. Because more and more users are using iPods in situations where they are unable to look at the screen, such as while driving, Apple has made it so it is possible to navigate the iPod menu ...

Few guys might have noted some problems in wordpress publishing from the past 2 days. WordPress 2.0.2 had moved the essential trackbacks and pingbacks into a script that gets loaded separately from when you publish a post. Instead of cycling through all of the pingbacks and trackbacks (like in version 1.5), the publication process spawns a request for the special script and just continues normally. However there is one more feature in Wordpress which makes the publication process to wait on a response from an external site: Pinging. When you publish a post, Wordpress is configured by default (via the Options>Writing page in the admin) to ping certain servers to notify them ...

The WYSIWYG "editors" for posting blogs in Blogger or Wordpress are pretty slow. You need to login to the administration page whenever you need to write a new post. Blogger does provide a plugin for Microsoft Word, however you cannot post documents with images.

So I started searching for a nice tool to ease this task. My Google search directed me to a browser called Flock

What is Flock?

Its a "free" web browser built using Firefox. Its being marketed as "The browser for you and your friends". Currently the developer preview is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. If

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David Blaine wants to be the new Houdini, but he looked more like the boy in the bubble Monday. The performance artist lowered himself into a water-filled plastic sphere at Lincoln Center, which will be his home for the next week. He'll get oxygen and liquid nutrients through one tube and use another to rid himself of waste, which isn't exactly death-defying. But not to worry — Blaine promises he'll leave TV audiences breathless next Monday when his air source is cut off and he spends eight or nine minutes trying to escape 150 pounds of metal chains. The world record for breath-holding is ...