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Touch Technology Is Sooo Last Season… Well Almost!

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 greligioso

TED has become one of my favorite sites because of the creative and innovative ideas the community is pursuing. Take a look at this new technology straight out of the Minority Report… sort of. Yes Microsoft created the same gesture technology encased in a table, but this is the same gesture technology gone mobile. For just $350 you can make ANY surface your playground.

Google Whoops

Monday, March 9th, 2009 greligioso

Google Docs BETANo this is not about a new Google service. For those of you that weren’t aware, there was a major disturbance reported on the clouds of the Google Kingdom back on Saturday, Mar. 7th. The glitch took place on the Google platform known as Google Docs, where documents saved on Google Docs were shared with contacts who were never granted access. If a user had ever shared a document with someone using Google Docs, more than likely the user that was granted access gained access to any other documents the granting user had ever shared with anyone else.

Here’s the letter that was sent to Google Docs users:

Dear Google Docs user,

We wanted to let you know about a recent issue with your Google Docs account. We’ve identified and fixed a bug which may have caused you to share some of your documents without your knowledge. This inadvertent sharing was limited to people with whom you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document. The issue only occurred if you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, selected multiple documents and presentations from the documents list and changed the sharing permissions. This issue affected documents and presentations, but not spreadsheets.

To help remedy this issue, we have used an automated process to remove collaborators and viewers from the documents that we identified as being affected. Since the impacted documents are now accessible only to you, you will need to re-share the documents manually. For your reference, we’ve listed below the documents identified as being affected.

We apologize for the inconvenience that this issue may have caused. We want to assure you that we are treating this issue with the highest priority.

The Google Docs Team

This was an isolated incident, which only affected .05% of Google Docs users, but this was major privacy no no for Google. I guess when Google advertises free web services they mean free-for-all?… Whoops!

Hello Dave

Friday, March 6th, 2009 greligioso

Computers being aware of each other is nothing new, but these mini computers are more aware than you may think.

Impressive

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 greligioso

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If you’re a fan of first person shoot’em ups you may want to check out Quake Live.  It’s free to play and has all the goodies from Quakes of the past.  Sorry Mac users, but you’ll need to be a PC to access this FRAGFEST!!!

Frame by Frame

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 greligioso

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So elegant in it’s simplicity and use of stop motion animation in combination with some beautiful lyrics.

O’You Betcha Hee Haw

Friday, October 24th, 2008 greligioso

Sarah Palin is seen wearing a scarf emblazoned with donkeys at a rally in Nevada on Tuesday. The donkey has become the established political symbol for the Democratic Party.

Ubiquity for Firefox

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 greligioso

Although this is still a prototype, the idea of having the ability to create my own little mashup of data is amazing. Read about Ubiquity for Firefox or just watch the video. Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

JabbaWonkeez

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 greligioso

Let’s Do Things Differently…

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 greligioso

BMW GINA Light Visionary Model: Premiere