I recently took a “Writing it Right” course at Memorial University where the following poem was handed out to illustrate limitations with Microsoft’s spell-check functionality; I found it amusing: I have a spelling checker. It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot sea. Eye ran this poem threw it, Your sure reel glad two no. Its vary polished in it’s weigh, My checker tolled me sew. [...]

Google Wave…the future of web-based personal communication/collaboration. Coming in late 2009.

Check out the evolution of answer-engine technology at Wolfram Alpha (tentatively scheduled to launch later this evening).

I’ve been playing with some software over the Christmas Holidays and I’m quite impressed with Digsby which is a multi-protocol IM (Instant Messaging) client.?On the never-ending quest for PC environmental simplification, I have used a number of multi-protocol IM clients over the years including;?Miranda,?Pidgin and?Trillian but never stuck with any of them. Up until a few weeks ago, I had been using?Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk (which alerted me to emails from my primary?Google Apps [...]

Busy day at?Google as they took a shot at Microsoft and Mozilla with their Chrome browser and also released a major update to?Picasa. Please visit the Official Google Blog for more detailed information on both announcements. At a glance: Chrome: It shouldn’t come as a shock to see simplicity and user-friendliness reign supreme in Chrome. However, don’t be sand-bagged into thinking Chrome is a “bare bones” browser as there have been a number of subtle [...]