Archive for the 'Technology' Category

flickr’s order of photos

I don’t know when flickr added this feature, but I am so happy that they did. Now only if they’ll do that for Photostream.

Adsense nonsense

Wow, I think I’ll go with the 25 billion songs site instead of these other two, despite all three ranking equally lame on account of their domain names. So these are the “highly relevant” Adsense ads I should be seeing in my Gmail, Google?

Tip: Using Gmail for all your e-mail addresses

Being a small happy company, we shunned anything “enterprisey” like Outlook/Exchange and have been happy with POP3 accounts and the freedom of using whatever mail client for our e-mail needs. However, our POP3 accounts’ webmail (SquirrelMail) left much to be desired in a web-based e-mail system.
Gmail introduced a new feature last week [...]

Did Google forget about the interface?

Google Desktop seems to be the Mighty Google’s answer to Apple’s Dashboard, even encouraging developers to write plug-ins (which are no Dashboard Widgets). The interface for Google’s desktop modules maintain their classic minimal and austere look, which makes it kind of hard (not to mention unpleasant) to look at when there are a bunch [...]

flickr’s stock photography

Am I the only one who finds flickr’s interesting pictures like some stock photo library? Huh, judging from the number of comments, I suppose people like that sort of photos.

Blog problems

I was looking on Technorati to see if there’s any blogs on QuickBooks, the worse software we must use for our business. Then I came across a bunch of results similar to this junk. How do I flag this page? This problem isn’t so uncommon, but it’s the first time it’s getting [...]

day in Ruby without leading zeros

I’ve been working with the Time class in Ruby today, and I’m finding some “quirks” that I can’t understand. For example, a very simple thing I’m trying to do is to print out the day of a month: let’s say for July 4th, I want “4″. And let’s say my_time is our time [...]