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Comment [] Trackback [] Technorati Cosmos Permalink 10:41:08 AM.

The Word of the Day for February 8, 2005 is: facelift

The website needed it....

Comment [] Trackback [] Technorati Cosmos Permalink 9:09:52 AM.

Well Google is officially trying to take over the world....at least cyberspace...

http://maps.google.com/

The latest product to come out of google. WOW it is pretty dang fast..and full featured of course, but always with that Google flare that sets it apart.

Much like Gmail they have shortcuts:

Save time with keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are great, and Google Maps has a bunch of them. For instance, you can...

use the arrow keys to pan left, right, up and down

the page up, page down, home and end keys let you pan out even wider

the plus (+) key lets you zoom in and the minus key (-) is for zooming out.

Of course the maps are COMPLETLY DYNAMIC:

Now online maps are draggable

Maps are great for getting around, but online maps could be a lot better. So Google decided to make dynamic, interactive maps that are draggable � no clicking and waiting for graphics to reload each time you want to view the adjacent parts of a map. Want to be able to type in the name of a region or neighborhood and see any part of it as easily as with a regular street map? Now you can with Google Maps.

Since these maps are draggable, you can use your mouse or the directional arrows to pan left, right, up and down to see areas that are hidden offscreen. You can also use the slider to zoom in and zoom out.

It's like having a huge map you can scroll around in.

Google Maps - dynamic, interactive

...and you can't live without driving directions:

Directions that get you there

They do also have Local Business Search:

Locate businesses in your neighborhood

Use Google Maps to search within an area or neighborhood. It works like this: Say you want to find free wifi hotspots. Type in "free wifi" and the zip code, and the free hotspots appear at various locations on your map, with phone numbers for each location appearing on the right side of the page. Click on the link for a location and it gives you the name, address and phone number that goes with it, with links offering you directions to and from it. The results that you see on Google Maps are obtained from Google Local.

If you are looking at an area on the map and want to locate a business, say a pizza place, in that area - just enter "pizza" in the search box and we will search around the center of the map - you don't need to enter a location.

All in all...it is a great service that I will consider using over Mapquest...Let's see if I acatually remember to type out maps.google.com instead of the current industry leader.

Comment [] Trackback [] Technorati Cosmos Permalink 8:51:33 AM.

GoDaddy.com girl = Candice Michelle

Okay so we find out that the GoDaddy.com girl is named: Candice Michelle

Check out her Google Images page

and Personal Home Page.

Comment [] Trackback [] Technorati Cosmos Permalink 8:17:45 AM.

Dilbert for 08 Feb 2005.

Comment [] Trackback [] Technorati Cosmos Permalink 3:47:08 AM.

James donates!!!

Talk about a blast from the past...

James just donated $1 for Drew's iPod fund...but I noticed he was using RocketMail...That's awesome.

I haven't used that in YEARS...I'm supprised they are still around. I should see if my old account is active...I had some "good" emails between an ex and I....but geez, I was probably 17 at the time.

LOL...I tried to go there...they got bought out by Yahoo!

RocketMail Service Upgrade

RocketMail is now part of Yahoo! Mail
To login to your Rocketmail Account, please go to http://mail.yahoo.com and enter the Yahoo! ID and password specified
when you converted your account.
Hint: if your rocketmail address was your_login@rocketmail.com, you can login to
Yahoo using "your_login.rm"

Comment [] Trackback [] Technorati Cosmos Permalink 1:28:41 AM.

NickStarr.com get a facelift

Well if this is your first time to the site you don't notice anything new, but if you are a regular (I have those?) ..then you notice it looks different.

I have will be changing the header icon up top semi-frequently with an archive coming soon.

I hope you like what I've done with the help of Donovan Watts.

The old pages until now will (for the time being) be left in the old format. IF I have to reload the site for some reason they will switch to the current theme I believe. The content will still be there though. I've tested the site with Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari and they all seem to look okay. Changed a few things that were making it look ugly in Internet Explorer.

I hope you like it.

Comment [] Trackback [] Technorati Cosmos Permalink 1:19:10 AM.

$40 Donation!!!

If you might of notice I've been quite busy recently with other items, but the site is still alive...and we just got a HUGE donation!!! $40 from someone who wants to remain anonymous. I will plug his site though because it is pretty cool... Sleepyhead.org. (I subscribe to his RSS feed ,and love that he has a feed for comments....If someone can figure that out for Radio Userland that would rock)

We also had a donation from Zackary for $10...

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