Archive for the 'Web 2.0' Category

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Google Date

Google Date lets you enter a date and then searches using Google for what happened on that date and shows three results. Since Google isn’t very good at sorting documents for relevance when it comes to dates, it usually doesn’t give you a list of big events, but of the things happening in the lives of random people.

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AJAX Powered IP Location Lookup

Find the geographic location of an IP address using geoip data and google maps. [digg]

Very slick I must say.

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iWeb – A short review

A few days ago I purchased the new iLife Suite. It arrived and I have spent the weekend exploring some of the new features in this year’s edition. I was most interested in the new application, iWeb. The old applications have been upgraded, but not modified enough so that a user of a past version would experience any trouble. So, this is strictly a review of iWeb so that you can decide for yourself if this new package is worth your money.

I would buy iLife ’06, but seeing how I’m 15 and I’m trying to save up for the MacBook Pro, I can’t afford it, nor will I use it that much. But iLife ’06 does have some really cool new features (such as the new themes that you can add to iMovie – they look great!). iWeb seems like a pretty basic application that you can use to create a cool looking blog / photoblog. I would consider it to be usefull to the new people who don’t want to buy a domain and just want to try it out.
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