I recently took a “Writing it Right” course at Memorial University where the following poem “An Owed to the Spelling Check” was handed out to illustrate limitations with Microsoft’s spell-check functionality; I found it amusing:
Technology
7-Zip: A file archiver with a high compression ratio.
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.
Gizmo’s Tech Support Alert is a great resource for finding legitimate freeware that, oftentimes, rival applications you are required to pay for.
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.