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October 26, 2006
MS Misses OS Deadline, Offers Coupons
For the holidays: Vista upgrade coupons - CNN.com
OK, I've stuck this in the "funny" category, although some people won't see why it's funny at all. Well, if you don't use/like Windoze, it's very funny.
Posted by lsloan at 10:49 AM | Comments (0)
October 25, 2006
Web-based Personal Organizer Works Offline?!
Posted by lsloan at 01:12 PM | Comments (0)
October 11, 2006
An OLED Display In Every Key
This is a very cool looking keyboard:
Optimus keyboard
Of course, their other designs are cool, too:
Art. Lebedev Studio Industrial Design
Posted by lsloan at 09:34 AM | Comments (0)
October 02, 2006
Javascript & DOM-based web.mail extensions
I've finally created some Javascript extensions to the mail web application on htp://mail.umich.edu/, which runs the Horde Project's IMP. They are short Javascript programs that can "wedge" themselves into any web page and add links to the U-M Online Directory for anybody with a "@umich.edu" email address or convert all mailto links to mail.umich compose links.
When I told colleagues that I use the mail web application at http://mail.umich.edu/ as my regular mail application, they were shocked. Their reactions were based on their experience when the service was first announced and it was incredibly slow. Even I hated it at that time.
I had been happy using Mulberry until I heard that support for it might just dry up. Then I switched to Thunderbird, which had enough extensions to let me work the way I liked to with Mulberry. But at some point, when I got a new notebook computer, a problem with the logic board and hard drive corrupted my Thunderbird preferences and nearly screwed up my mail on the IMAP server.
While my computer was in the service shop, I borrowed a computer. I didn't want to install Thunderbird or trust my mail settings to a computer that would eventually go back to somebody else, so I turned to the web-based mail.umich.edu, which had performance improvements since the last time I used it.
Of course, I found myself wishing that I could look email senders or recipients in the UMOD or that mailto links would work with mail.umich. Now that they are done, they've turned out to be good exercises in Javascript and DOM interaction. They work well enough for me in Firefox, but I think I will try to make them a bit more robust and work with other browsers, too.
Posted by lsloan at 11:25 AM | Comments (0)