TechnoMagicians Blog

Cover It Live (www.coveritlive.com) is a new tool that you can add to your website to enable live blogging. Basically a much more advanced BlogChat. Other features include publishing pictures, video, and email. Instant replay when the live event is over. Not sure what other features are available as the website isn’t that great at […]

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Looks like the Google GMail team is doing some interesting things with HTML5: The HTML5 draft adds a lot of exciting functionality to browsers. Perhaps the most exciting is adding a way for websites to be launched offline. For devices that have a high bandwidth and highly available connection, offline functionality might not be so […]

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I agree 100% with this so am reposting the entire blog post here from GigaOM. Microsoft always used these techniques and I always thought it was one of the worst methods of conducting an interview. If Sergey Brin applied for an engineering position at Google today, would he pass the requisite phone screening? Don’t be […]

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When I first heard of this I dismissed it as I thought they were talking about the demise of email due to Twitter. That would be a ridiculous notion. However, after getting into the presentation further, (found here) I realized Daniel Sandler might be onto something. From the BirdFeeder website: Birdfeeder is the prototype implementation […]

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See this old post for history. I finally got Dell to replace the GPU today. I was mistaken about them replacing absolutely everything except the nVidia GPU. Apparently the heat sinks and fans were not replaced either. I found out that there is one heatsink and fan for the CPU and another for the GPU. […]

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BCE Inc. is proposing to change the way it bills independent internet service providers who rent portions of its network, changes that small ISPs say will ultimately mean the end of “unlimited” plans for consumers via Bell proposal puts ‘unlimited internet’ plans in jeopardy, critics say. Also see this post.

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Finally the Trillian Astra Beta is available. Trying it out now since I’m a very long time Trillian supporter. It has been an extremely long wait for the GTalk, Facebook and Twitter integration which I’m trying out now. Up to this point I’ve been running 3 separate programs: Trillian old version for ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, […]

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