In the last two weeks, I’ve shifted from keeping all my emails, contacts, and calendars on my computer (using Apple’s Mail, Address Book, and iCal) to Google’s well-implemented suite of online applications. I’m pretty satisfied with the results: Now I can get at my important data from any computer I’m using, as long as it’s got an internet connection. This way, I don’t have to lug my 17″ laptop around wherever I go.
I’ve always been a big fan of Google’s products. Even more so than Apple, they seem to really understand the needs of their users. Their interfaces seem to be comfortable for n00bs and experienced users alike. That said, the more I use Google’s apps, the more I want from them that I don’t quite have. Here are some of my biggest gripes so far (blogged in the hopes that they will be fixed someday):
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Spammers are good poets:
The pain of being born into matter.
I’ve drifted somewhat from the distant heart
Reshaping magnified, each risen flake
Is the moon to grow
With its lament, it often sounds, instead,
Escapees from the cold work of living,
What is there in the depths of these walls
One flash of eye, or blow one clarion-blast;
To run, as in the time of the bee, seeking
He terrifies the Vast, he seems so wild;
and the Splendid Splinter. For a few dreamy dollars,
Or by the loud hand of painting, always puts.
Unreadable from behind—they are well down
VII. Hudson and His Strait; Baffin and His Bay
They tear apart the mist, it is as though,
Pierced by the mist that fades away,
The face of a Quos ego),
They move against, or through, or by, or toward.
No name, no meaning. Oh my friends
My brother assumes that they use the old computer program Racter to come up with these poems.
There is nowhere near enough stuff in the public domain. Today, while attempting to put together a blackjack game for my computer science class, I was diverted by the completely unrelated and entirely useless task of drawing my own playing card graphics.
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I have a really cool idea that’s got so much potential: We totally need to begin making cars that can wirelessly communicate with each other. It’d be like a modern version of CB radio!
This idea has a lot of pretty interesting correlaries. Imagine the idea of Web 2.0 information sharing being carried over to the highway! It’d improve traffic safety, make road trips take less time, and reduce highway congestion. It would also create a very accurate database of information about traffic patterns, which could be made public domain so that highway departments would have a far easier time improving traffic flow.
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I’ve done some work toward redesigning my business home page. It’s a lot more sparse than it used to be, but I like it because its short and to the point. I’ll probably be tweaking it quite a bit in the coming months. I’d appreciate any input you’d like to give!
What it needs most right now is thoughtful link rollovers for the image links, so that the user is aware that they’re actually clickable. Also, the alignment of the “contact me” and the “read my blog” bits are a bit off. Is there too much white? I don’t know.
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