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Google on the Phone

When I first got my cell phone a few months ago, I tried browsing to GMail since I finally had a phone that could handle it. While checking my mail, I noticed a link advertising their GMail app. I downloaded it and ran it. Very cool! It’s just like using GMail on your PC (well almost). You can easily access messages and do all the GMail things you can do with your PC. Sweet!

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Fun with Google Earth

If you haven’t tried out Google Earth yet, you should. It’s free. It’s a program for Windows and Mac that lets you fly around a 3D globe and look at satellite images. It even has 3D terrain, so you can get a cool view of places like the Grand Canyon.

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Fab new gear

Jeremy up and gave me his old G3 iMac that was sitting around. He said he didn’t want to invest the time to get OS X running on it (since it needed a firmware update). I gladly took it from him and set it up this weekend. It turns out it didn’t need the firmware update after all! It’s a 400MHz G3 and it came with 384MB of RAM and a 10GB hard disk. It came with OS 9.1 on it, so I upgraded it to OS 9.2.2 and installed OS X 10.4. Amazingly, 10.4 works great on it, in lieu of the fact that it’s 6 years old. It’ll be great to have a machine with OS 9 on it for Julie’s older music software. My challenge now is to get my MOTU Fastlane USB MIDI adapter working on it so she can plug it into the piano and write music using the keyboard.

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Word Up

Something that’s annoyed me lately: You check your email and open a message from someone. The message is a memo about something or a laundry list of tasks to complete. Instead of just writing the memo or the list of tasks in the email, the sender insists on putting it inside of a Word document.

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