November 5, 2009 @ 7:49 pm
Google launched a new feature (not really a feature, actually) today called Dashboard that lets you easily see all of the information that Google stores about you in one place. The site is an easy way to get to each Google product’s settings/privacy pages without having to log in to each service.
If you use Google products and services on a day to day basis, I recommend that you go to your Google Dashboard and see if you’ve got any settings you might want to change.
April 20, 2009 @ 9:28 am
I really hope the next big update to Mac OS comes with some sort of hotkey for locking your computer. I’ve mentioned how you can use the Mac app LockTight to implement a hotkey for locking your computer, but it seems silly that this isn’t a native and standard keystroke on all Mac systems.
Until Apple gets their stuff together on this, you can also try this handy Locker Widget that makes locking your computer as easy as double-clicking an orange icon. The app sits in your Dashboard and acts the same way as the fast user switching menu. I find this particular app to be more pleasant to use than LockTight.
January 21, 2009 @ 1:25 am
So my dad and I are looking at new cars and one of the ones we’re both pretty fixated on is the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid. It’s a rather ordinary looking car but underneath it’s a bit more than extraordinary. It offers quite substantial mileage per gallon over the other cars in its class and it has a wonderfully design dashboard that really extends the center console unit to a great degree. And according to Ford, if you’re driving below 47mph, the car is almost 100% electric. So in most city-driving situations, you won’t be using any gas at all!
I really wouldn’t mind driving this car. It’s spacious, not too ugly, decently priced, and it has an awesome webpage. Sadly, I doubt we’ll get this car because it’s only available in automatic. :(
December 4, 2008 @ 2:29 am
The big news in the blogging community is the release of WordPress 2.7 at 8PM EST tonight (December 4, 2008). I’ve had the pleasure of testing WP 2.7 in the past few weeks and I am excited for a final release of the blogging system. The refreshed admin panel alone is worth the upgrade along with several behind-the-scenes features which will benefit publishers (readers of any blog won’t know that a thing has changed). The layout of everything in the admin panel is just so much smarter and easier to get to than before, thanks to nested menus (built-in) and a better dashboard layout.
Anyway, I’ll be glad to leave some of my plugins behind when I upgrade to this new release of WordPress. Having certain features built-in is just so much more stable than relying on a plugin.
UPDATE: Just to clarify, WP 2.7 will be out tonight on WordPress.com blogs, and if all goes well, the full version will be released on December 10 for those of us who are self-hosted.
