By Gary V. Vaughan under Technology
Following up on John Gruber’s recent post about iPhone web apps: I absolutely agree that right now there is definitely something that makes certain applications work better as a web application in your browser, where others seem more suited to running natively on the operating system. I’m also right behind John when he says: Imagine [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Programming, Technology
I recently bemoaned the lack of PKI support in Google Mail, only to be proven wrong when I happened upon the FireGPG project this morning: A firefox extension that uses an external GPG binary to handle ASCII armoured email signatures and encryption. The embedded ASCII armoured signature flavour involves adding a block of text at [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Programming, Technology
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the last few days, Google Gears is creating a wave of excitement across the intertubes. It’s a new open source beta browser plugin for Firefox and IE (Safari and Opera to follow) that provides javascript APIs to allow disconnected use of web applications. Once a webapp [...]
By Gary V. Vaughan under Travel
Last week google launched a new feature called My Maps allowing us to annotate our own maps, and publish them to the world. If only they’d had this when I rode Route 66 last year, I wouldn’t have had to fight so hard with the yahoo geotagging tool to get my flickr photos on a [...]