Blog Master G

We live in an automated world. From programming your TV to record your favorite shows to telling your coffee pot to have the morning brew ready for you, there’s not a whole lot that can’t happen automatically these days. Will cars drive us around automatically some day as depicted in movies like Total Recall and […]

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Think Hotline of the mid-90s or Napster, but legal. And you get paid, too. That’s the idea behind Peer Impact, a legal peer-to-peer music sharing service that’s quietly making waves in the industry. The concept is simple: Put your legally-owned music online to share with others, someone buys it, the music label gets a cut, […]

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A modest proposal: The copy ‘n paste feature built in to every modern computer should be awarded the greatest computing feature ever. Think about it. Besides typing and mousing, what feature do you use more often than any other? Does a day go by without using copy ‘n paste? What other feature offers such an […]

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My oh my, how times have changed. Imagine carrying this thing on a plane with you.

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I spent a good part of my Thanksgiving break and the early part of this week revamping my two PCs — backing up, reformatting, partitioning, reinstalling Windows XP. It was the biggest pain in the ass and truly made me appreciate even more the beauty, simplicity, and superiority that is the Mac OS. After much […]

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Craigslist Albany has, at long last, arrived. It must have just launched in the past few days since there’s not much activity yet. Now the goal is spreading the word around the Capital Region to make our local version of craiglist as popular and as useful as it is in San Francisco and New York. […]

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Woohoo! As of this morning, Google has incorporated my most desired feature into Gmail: Save Draft. This basic functionality was hard to live without, but I’m really glad to see that enough people asking for it has encouraged Google to roll it out. My keyboard shortcuts and email address auto-completion seemed a little buggy this […]

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Body Shots: “It’s a typically raucous Saturday night inside the Baja Beach Club, a wildly popular discotheque in Barcelona, Spain. House music blares. Ecstatic partygoers grope blindly on the dance floor. Voluptuous waitresses in pink bikinis and grass skirts crisscross the crowd delivering overpriced mai tais. A miasma of cigarette smoke lingers just above the […]

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I’ve written some praise in the past about Gmail. I now use it as much as I use email on my own Web server. It’s fast, reliable, and the search, of course, is great. I have some Gmail invitations to give out, so let me know if you’re interested in one. (Friends, family, and people […]

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I’ve been using Gmail for 10 days now and I love it. It seems that those of us who like being the first to try out new technology have, for the most part, had our chance to do just that. The eBay prices on the accounts have all dropped down to 99 cents or so, […]

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