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Mobile Bing on iPhone fails to deliver

October 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments

Microsoft just announced a Bing refresh for touch phones, including support for iPhone.  According to the announcement, the new mobile bing brings some great new features including Movie listings, NFL player stats, and flight stats. I didn’t try any of those: I tried the single most important thing a mobile search must provide: directions. Home [...]

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Tags: bing · computers · iPhone · microsoft

Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software

July 7th, 2009 · Comments Off

We’re programmers. Programmers are, in their hearts, architects, and the first thing they want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand. We’re not excited by incremental renovation: tinkering, improving, planting flower beds. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

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Nikon D40

June 26th, 2007 · Comments Off

The new D40x has the same exact CCD sensor that my D80 has. The body is far smaller, and quite comfortable in your hands. From first impressions at Target, it looks like all of the custom settings will be displayed in the LCD, instead of having dedicated buttons for White Balance, etc. Here it is [...]

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Tags: computers · photography

Down The Line

April 11th, 2007 · Comments Off

Down The Line Originally uploaded by rckrawczykjr. This is a test of blogging from flickr. To set it up, all I needed was my WordPress username and password, and the address of my blog. I got to choose from several nice layout styles, and picked one which wraps text nicely around a right justified photo. [...]

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Tags: computers