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Monthly Archives: February 2007

The Wells-Fargo wagon

I’m kind of like a kid at Christmas this morning. I’m awaiting the arrival of the FedEx truck, hence the reference to “The Wells-Fargo Wagon” From Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man,” with “somethin’ special” for me. I’m still using an old computer here that I bought in 2001. I’ve upgraded a number of things on [...]

How to use Firefox’s keyword feature

Life should be as simple as possible, I think.  That’s why I love the keyword feature in Firefox.  URLs are often extremely long and nearly impossible to remember, particularly as you grow older and your memory isn’t what it used to be.  Fortunately, there is a way to simplify navigating to websites that you visit [...]

The machine is us/ing us.

Update: John Battelle posted an interview yesterday that he did with the creator of this video. The interview itself is quite interesting as are the comments readers of it have left. Well worth the time to investigate.

Zoho Notebook

Raju Vegesna announced the Alpha version of a new Web 2.0 application called Zoho Notebook on January 30, 2007, and demonstrated it this week at DEMO ’07. It looks pretty amazing to me, and I’d love to get in on trying it out. Check out the 3-minute video below.

Family tree

A few days ago, I talked about Face Recognition that was available from this site. On that same date, I downloaded their free genealogy software, called Family Tree Builder (FTB). And in subsequent days I’ve gone through their 56-page tutorial, an optional but useful exercise that helped me understand the software and maybe avoid some [...]