Well, I’ve said good things about Google maps, so when I saw that Microsoft had rolled out Virtual Earth I wanted to take a look. I’ve been trying to get in for a little while. I think it’s still very beta-ish, so well give a pass on availability. I like the wider satellite and map view that you can get. They take advantage of a bit more screen real-estate in their overheads. (more…)
Category: General Web/Tech
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Daylight savings changes in the works
According to several sources, including a CNN story, it looks as though daylight savings time won’t be quite the same. The House and Senate have agreed on a compromise Energy Bill which will add 4 weeks to daylight savings time. It would start 3 weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March and end one week later, the first Sunday in November. (more…)
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Shortwave Listening Over the Internet
Ok, so with the post on the shortwave schedule viewer software, I got the idea to mention a site I’ve played with and think is a pretty neat idea. Of course, part of the concept of shortwave is, with the longer radio frequencies they can travel hundreds (even thousands) of miles and you can hear a breadcast from literally the other side of the world.
There are problems these days, interference (more…)
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Google Maps – Satellite with Roads overlay
Wow, I’ve been hoping for this for quite a while. Of course, I’ve mentioned that I use Google Maps quite a bit. They have had a satellite view and regular map view which has been invaluable. Sometimes though, I’ve wanted to overlay the road maps on top of the satellite to just make sure that I’m looking at the right road. Well now there is…Look at this (more…)
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Microsoft files for patent on creating smiley face
Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent You’ve got to be kidding. Apparently Microsoft has applied for a paten that translates a sequence of characters into a smiley face 🙂 I’ve typed that in with colon, dash, right parenthesis. (more…)
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Great Article on Google search positioning and blogs
I just read a great article at blogbusinessworld I think he’s got the right idea. Essentially, the point of the article is that blogs tend to interlink and form “content specific” communites. Political blogs would be a great example, usually there are a good deal of interlinkings between Political blogs. Since they are usually keyword rich it can help a sites search relevance in google by blogging and linking to (and being linked from) relevant and also highly linked to blogs. (more…)
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Google Moon
For some time now, I’ve used Google Maps fairly extensively. I love the ability to drag the street maps around and the inclusion of Satellite imagery has been absolutely fantastic and at the same time a bit scary. Of course there’s the ability to do local searches on the map with pushpins of a sort tagging the search hits. Very nice. I’ve even seen gps overlays and ways to pull gps coordinates from a map. Anyway…
Today I saw a news post somewhere that there was a new twist Google Moon Since July 20th was the anniversary (more…)