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Posts from April 2005

Another Software Monopoly

Adobe has acquired Macromedia in a $3.4 billion deal. This creates an obvious graphics and web development software monopoly. Adobe has the web and print graphics software market eating out if its hands with Photoshop and Illustrator. The only competitors were Fireworks and Freehand, but now it owns them too! The one area that Adobe [...]


Google Maps - Satellite!

The Satellite feature on Google Maps is the hot thing these days. While the street addresses on the program are not always correct, the satellite images are downloaded quickly and easily… much easier than NASA’s WorldWind. And, it’s certainly easier to use a website than Google’s KeyHole. Of course, those programs have much more features.
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Happy Birthday Gmail!

Gmail is one year old. And in what seemed like a response to Yahoo!’s increase of storage space for members to 1gb, Gmail increased their storage to 2gbs, and counting. That’s right, Gmail storage will be increasing indefinitely. Check out Gmail.com for the current storage count. Gmail also added rich text formatting capability. If you [...]


Master of Science in Human Factors in Information Design

I recently was accepted into the MSHFID program at Bentley College in Waltham, MA. The program starts September 6, 2005 and is 10 courses long. Bentley is conveniently located near Boston, and about 1.5-2 hours away from my home on Cape Cod. The program is one of the premier HCI degrees in the nation and [...]


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