Whenever you hear of Star Trek, you probably think of classic lines like "He’s dead, Jim (let’s blog about it!)" or "Beam me up Scotty!" or "Computer, compute to the last digit the value of pi" etc.
But were you aware that some of the technologies conceived for the series have actually come into being in some form or another?
Confess - everyone KNOWS
that to truly manage your software builds, you need SABLE or SABLIME.
AND….to really take great pictures, you need a flash cube.
AND….to really get super music enjoyment, you need to balance the tone arm on the turntable.
And don’t get me started on that most magnificent of editors, VI! 
Did you know there’s now a site dedicated to them?
Yes indeed - Obsolete Skills. Visit it now - it will really start memory lane revvin’ on up! Especially:
Common Sense:
Common Sense
Field General Went Obsolete Middle part of the 20th century Made Obsolete By The invention of the lawyer/lawsuit Knowledge Assumed None When useful Everyday Unfortunately not too common any more.
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Brings back memories, eh?
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
ps - more obsolete goodies include:
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We have blogging answers!
We’re in the process of building a one-two-three site for newbies to blogging at
Drop on by and check it out! New questions can be submitted at:
Enjoy.
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
Yes, it’s probably true
when you think of the future of the Internet and Web 3.0, you think of extending the semantic web concept, weaving together technologies and creating the ultimate user experience.
Well, WRONGO!!! :) Okay, perhaps not wrong, but have you instead considered that Web 3.0 will really center up (drumroll please):
Social Shopping!
Yes, it’s true - forget about following what fashion analysts say online or TV. Instead, you’re going to become a fearless leader of lemmings (or perhaps a gung-ho lemming yourself) and first see what others are buying online before bravely making that critical fashion choice yourself. To wit:
…What happens when following the fashion herd becomes wisdom of the masses? When everyone can become his or her own fashion editor? When “citizen” journalists replace glossy magazines as oracles of fashion?
The next big thing in fashion is not a hot young designer or a new label but an online evolution driven by peer-to-peer recommendation and consumers who want what they see others are buying online – in short, a new kind of conspicuous cyber consumption.
“It’s what I call Web 3.0,” explains Dawn Bebe, managing director of the UK’s first social shopping site for women, Osoyou.com. While the Web 2.0 label is used to refer to the current interactive phase of internet development, defined by blogging, social networking and “wiki” sites built with user-generated content, Bebe believes, “The next evolution for the web is social networks that have a purpose – vertical social networks…. This is where social shopping comes in. The thing that bonds these people is shopping and fashion.”
“We believe that peer-to-peer recommendation is already essential in e-commerce because shopping is a social and emotionally driven experience,” says Malte Goesche, chief executive and co-founder of iliketotallyloveit.com, a social shopping site based in Germany and named after a phrase used by Paris Hilton. “Recommendations by friends help you to discover products you weren’t aware of and didn’t know you needed ….MORE….
Love that line…"didn’t know you needed."
Remember, you’ve heard it here first! When 3.0 comes roaring in like a freight train, daintily refer people to:
You’ll definitely, like, make an impression.
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
ps - and if you’re looking for designer fashion you can, like, totally love:
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Want to build
a website…but don’t know how to build a website? Not to fear, it’s Google to the rescue! To wit:
Google Sites’ ease-of-use, tight integration with Google services strengthens company’s position in Web-app race
Google today unveiled a powerful new weapon in its arsenal of lightweight Web-based productivity applications: a tool for easily and collaboratively creating and editing Web sites. Dubbed Google Sites, it’s built around JotSpot, the wiki platform that Google acquired in October of 2006 — and whose previously unclear fate has been cause for quite a bit of hand-wringing.
The search behemoth appears to have a broad range of applications in mind for the freely available tool, from building a private company intranet, accessible and customizable by users on a permissions basis, to developing a public-facing Web site for all the world to see.
Google has aimed to make the Google Sites easy enough for a beginner yet feature-rich enough for a power user. For example, building a Google Site requires no HTML, according to the company: It’s “as easy as editing a document,” the company says. There’s also a “growing list” of page templates to get users started, including “Web page, announcements, file cabinet, dashboard, and list,” according to Google…..MORE….
At first glance, it looks very promising! I wonder, though, how many business folk will actually exert themselves to take advantage of the technology?
More information can be found at:
What do you think?
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
ps - want newbie books on website building?
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Tell me the below clip out ISN’T cool!
I just came across the free site Kwout - it allows you to easily make quote copies or website images of any page online. Truemors is a great site that offers breaking news, rumors and the like.
So! Let’s say that I wanted to quote something from Steve Pavlina’s blog - I could snip out a picture like so:
Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development Blog via kwout
and include it in my post.
What do you think? ‘way cool thinks I!
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
Awesome
doesn’t begin to describe:
5978 High Quality Icons for Web, Apps & RSS
I spent a lovely morning poring over them - WOW!
I think whatever you could possibly need for a web-based design is there (along with credit to the original author/artist). Words really don’t describe this page and blog posting - you MUST see it for yourself.
5978 High Quality Icons for Web, Apps & RSS
And if you’d like some graphic design resources, check out:
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
ps - more hi res goodies include:
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I’ll never forget
the SPARC 670 or SPARC 690. The size of a healthy refrigerator, it powered our department’s networks with the greatest of ease 18 years ago. Ah, memories.
SUN has certainly changed from those humble roots back then! But the big exciting news to me is that they just bought MySQL.
Now, you might know that MySQL is one of the most popular databases out there in the world - it powers just about every database-driven application used by the common masses. Talk about an impressive reach! Here’s more background:
….. Sun Microsystems Tuesday completed its $1 billion acquisition of MySQL AB, a decision that was announced back in mid-January. Coinciding with the completion of the acquisition, Sun also made available MySQL’s complete portfolio of products through its global sales and services organization. The company also recently announced several new universities deploying its systems.
MySQL Acquisition
MySQL is the most popular open source database and is behind some of the highest-volume sites on the Web, including Google and Facebook. According to information released by Sun, more than 100 million copies of MySQL software have been downloaded to date, with the current pace reaching about 60,000 downloads per day. Sun said that the reach of MySQL will help “bring new markets for Sun’s systems, virtualization, middleware and storage platforms.”The acquisition included $800 million in cash and $200 million in options. Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL, has joined Sun’s senior executive team as senior vice president of the new Database Group within Sun’s Software division.
Sun, along with O’Reilly Media, will present the annual MySQL Conference & Expo April 14-17 in Santa Clara, CA.
MySQL software is available for download now through Sun at no charge….MORE….
What do you think?
And if you’d like to learn more about MySQL, check out:
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
ps - MySQL goodies are abundant including:
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As you probably know
Apple released the iPhone 1.1.4 update. Yay!
Concerns were this morning that you could not update a jailbroken iPhone with this because your iphone would melt and then self-destruct into shiny little bits (okay, that’s a wee bit of an exaggeration).
However, The Unofficial Apple Weblog reports:
Our own Erica Sadun has confirmed that Zibri’s jailbreak does work with the 1.1.4 update, released today. We’re told that Nate True has tried it out with the new update installed, and that it does work.
So big news for jailbreakers — update away, because the jailbreak wasn’t one of the “bugs” fixed. Although if this update is, as we suspect, laying the groundwork for the SDK release, we may not have to worry about applications not working on the phone too much longer.
Update: While some users have upgraded with no problems, Zibri is asking that users not upgrade until the tool can be thoroughly checked with the new firmware. “People who donated will receive the next version a day before everyone else. Expect a new version in 2 days (3 days for non-donors),” he says….MORE….
Before you do ANYTHING, of course, I HIGHLY recommend you check out The Howard Forums take on it - 10+ pages of discussion and growing!
Here’s two more resources on the iPhone 1.1.4 update:
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
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The iPhone has
revolutionized how people interact with their mobile phones.
What if that technology could be transferred to notebooks?
I just found:
…Apple is betting that the iPhone’s breakthrough in the way we interact with mobile phones will transfer over to notebooks.
The new MacBook Pros and MacBooks introduced Tuesday aren’t all that much different from the ones that were on sale yesterday. Sure, they’ve got Intel’s new Penryn chips, and more potent configurations, but for the most part, it’s the same laptop. That is, with one notable exception.
Apple brought the gesture-recognition technology first introduced on the MacBook Air over to the new MacBook Pro systems, which will likely ship in much larger volumes than the MacBook Air and introduce many more of Apple’s customers to the idea of trackpad gesture recognition. The technology allows you to zoom in and out of pictures, for example, by using the same pinch-and-expand gesture used on the iPhone….MORE….
Intriguing (unless small toddlers find it unguarded). What do you think? And if you’re looking for ways to soup up your iTouch, consider:
ThankYouVeryMuch!
Owlbert
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