At approximately 12:37 PM Eastern on February 23rd, 2006, Apple sold its one billionth song on iTunes, marking the end of their Billion Song Giveaway campaign. As they marked their way to one billion, the music fans who downloaded every 100,000th song won a prize package featuring a black 4GB iPod nano and a $100… Continue reading Apple sells Billionth song!
Google Page Creator
Google Page Creator is a free tool that lets you create web pages right in your browser and publish them to the web with one click. There’s no software to download and no web designer to hire. The pages you create are hosted on Google servers and are available at http://yourgmailusername.googlepages.com for the world to… Continue reading Google Page Creator
Gmail Smart Reply
In the past, users had to select which address to use if the “default” should not be the sender. The process simply didn’t feel natural when replying to messages originally sent to yourname@foo.com. By default, it would set the “from” address to “yourname@gmail.com” rather than the more logical “yourname@foo.com” ? even if you have the… Continue reading Gmail Smart Reply
How to Bypass Website Registration
Many people on forums are linking to news services that require registration. Examples would be NY-times, Washington Post, Toronto Star etc. I think that they are doing us all a great service by visiting various news sites and gathering the best the web has to offer. But, as readers, we cannot possibly be registering to… Continue reading How to Bypass Website Registration
Why does my program run faster if I click and hold the caption bar?
Sometimes, people discover that a long-running task runs faster if you hold down the mouse. How can that be? This strange state of affairs typically results when a program is spending too much time updating its progress status and not enough time actually doing work. (In other words, the programmer messed up badly.) When you… Continue reading Why does my program run faster if I click and hold the caption bar?