Reality, Virtual, Augmented, and Other

It was interesting to read of more growth along the lines of an idea I worked on in2006. Google seemed to be the first big company to latch on to it. They had their street view panoramas, with very obvious usefulness. Then they began to overlay information on them, again, obvious and very useful.

Now it seems one of my favorite companies is warming to the idea as well.

http://www.MacRumors.com/2011/08/18/apple-exploring-enhancing-maps-with-...
http://www.AppleInsider.com/articles/11/08/18/apple_investigating_augmen...

Drupal 7!

There is a new version of Drupal out! Drupal 7.

I tinkered with a few betas when I had a few minutes to do so.

I recommend Drupal highly!

Get a Mac!

So there's been quite a bit of news about Apple recently.

But the bottom line is the overwhelming majority of people like the iPhone 4 and are having no problems with the antenna.

I also read about how Microsoft is putting up a bunch of propaganda to continue to scare people away from Apple Macs. What a load of BS.

You are FAR BETTER with a Mac. Macs are more powerful, and since you can also install MS WIN, you can do everything that OS can do AND MORE. But personally I prefer and recommend to avoid MS WIN altogether.

NEVER DO BUSINESS WITH EARTHLINK

This post is born of 10+ years of frustration in dealing with the Internet Service company that once was MindSpring, but was bought buy Earthlink, aka ELNK.

Back in the 1990's I bought a domain name though them, for a pretty penny. I won't go through all my woes with them, but will point out my main frustrations.

Storing Your Many Passwords, Download My Free FileMaker Pro Password Database

Introduction

There are many programs out there to store your passwords in. Here's another one!

If you're like me, you have FileMaker Pro and like it a lot. I made a flat-file database to hold my passwords many years ago, but a few years ago it was not enough, I needed a relational database.

But before I get any further I should say this database evolved to be able to store any private information. It can be used to not only store information about web site login IDs, but house alarms, where you keep important documents, and whatever else you want. Near the end of this article I discuss some security considerations you should keep in mind.

PC World Pokes Fun at Microsoft

Want a laugh? Here is a funny article teasing Microsoft, which recently announced it would open a bunch of retail stores.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/159521/10_ways_microsofts_retail_stores_w...

News Feeds and News Aggregation with Vienna

(The following is a 1st draft article. I'm publishing it in this state anyway, since I know some people who could benefit from this introduction. I hope, before too many years go by, I'll be able to give it a "going over" and maybe add some zest with some JavaScript fanciness on showing the graphics, which are a bit clunky in places, sorry.)

Introduction

This article is written with beginners in mind. People who have either not heard of this subject, or have been using Safari's or Mail's built-in news reader, but want more control and power, as well as a better looking interface. (It should be noted that in 10.4 only Safari can read news feeds, with 10.5 both Safari and Mail can fetch news feeds.)

Even though this article is geared towards Apple Macintosh users, and the program Vienna, it can still be a great tutorial if you are using another Operating System, or another of the main news readers available for Apple's OS X.

Back Online!

CompuDrew.com is back online after a brief outage due to a number of factors beyond my control.

I moved my domain and consolidated my web sites' code, but it seems I moved it all to a hosting account with outdated support, and that lead to a series of unfortunate events.

However, i was able to get my host to wipe the slate clean, as they say, and it seems this new hosting environment is better.

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