Google released a free version of Google SketchUp which allows easy creation of 3D models. There is also a pro version for around $500. Models can even be added directly to Google Earth.
In personal news, can you believe my wedding is only two weeks away?
I feel I have a duty to share when I come across something mind boggling - either to myself, or to someone else.
it boggles my mind to see folks who work in technology that actually make fun of other people for caring about…technology
She’s talking about “nerds in denial” of course. Now, I’m not sure that I would consider myself a nerd simply because I work as a web developer. I do love my work and I am passionate about it, but does that in itself make me a nerd?
Anyway, not trying to get into a philosophical discussion about what makes a nerd…just thought I’d pass along something that someone found mind boggling!
Fantastic “quick and dirty” redesign of the White House’s website. Looks great, hope someone from the White House sees it.
via Patrick
If anyone noticed that the site was down yesterday, I apologize. It seems my ISP changed my IP address, and I didn’t realize it until I was at work and it was too late to figure out my new one. Everything should be all set.
In other news, I’m preparing for my bachelor party this weekend. Any words of wisdom?
Over the past week, two new sites have launched that you should probably either subscribe to, or keep a close watch on. Both have the potential to be a “must read” for folks in the web industry.
Both are multi author sites, providing a variety of content. Vitamin seems to be put together by Ryan Carson, and has an all star cast already assembled. Bite Size is the brian child of John Oxton, and seems to be doing a bit of learning as they go. Both have potential, and I look foward to seeing great content on each.
For those that haven’t seen, Google has released Google Calendar. It looks pretty slick, and I’m looking forward to really diving in and getting some shared calendars and events.
In the interest of spreading information about anything that can potentially make your day better, I figured I’d better share the fact that April 20th is the 4th Annual National High Five Day!
via Patrick Haney
While I personally like dogs more than cats, I like cats a lot more than randomly generated text. Therefore, I really like the idea behind KittenAuth. It’s basically a replacement for those horrendus CAPTCHAs. Instead of the user having to decipher text, they simply need to click the three pictures of kittens.
You can also read the full article about the project as well.
Apple is officially releasing BootCamp, their technology to run Windows on your Intel based Mac, as a beta.
I don’t have an Intel Mac yet, but this could certainly convince me to consider one as my next “main” computer.
However, as someone who grew up around Apple computers, I’m surprised how people are reacting to this - does no one remember the first time that Apple did this?? In 1995, Apple released a DOS Card for the Performa and shipped it with Windows 3.1.
In January of 1995, Apple released the DOS Compatibility Card for the Power Macintosh 6100 series of computers. The card features a 486DX2/66 microprocessor and currently ships with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 included.
So now, 10 years later, Windows will once again be able to run natively on a Mac. It seems the implementation will be much better this time (it really wasn’t very pleasant the first time) and Windows itself has certainly come a long way.
I’m just guessing, but I would assume that the first time around it got people to buy Macintosh who otherwise might have purchased a Windows machine for business reasons. However, I would be surprised if their implementation of how it worked actually kept many of those customers loyal to Apple. Apple has a chance to redeem themselves, and really make a true dual OS machine - the question will be whether it really affects their overall sales.
While a lot of people who currently use Macs will probably jump at the chance to get rid of their second computer (if they have one) and run Windows directly on their Mac, will this be enough to convert people who were not Mac people to begin with? We’ll have to wait and see…
I’m sure plenty of folks know this one, but I just found out about it today, rather by accident:
If you hold the Shift key while scrolling up or down on the mouse, Firefox will navigate through it’s history!
This will be a great timesaver for me at work, where I have a mouse without the extra buttons on the side for back and forward.