Patrick Havens on July 5th, 2007

A satellite image of China’s new nuclear ballistic missile submarine is available on the Google Earth Internet site.
Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), spotted the images, photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006.
One photo is of what is apparently the new Type 094 [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 29th, 2007

Now I love Google Desktop at work. I use it daily trying to find one customer’s file or another. Now I love its search, I’m not totally huge on its sidebar because it makes my work machine slowly stagger to a stop at work. But at home I also use the Google [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 29th, 2007

You’ll never use MapQuest again. With a new addition to its Google Maps service, Google has completely reinvented the notion of online driving directions, letting you adjust routes in with a simple drag and drop.In the past, when you asked services like MapQuest or Google Maps for driving directions, you took what they gave you. [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 7th, 2007

Aaron Swartz, now in his early twenties, rose to internet fame as technology whiz kid a couple of years ago, working on such things as W3C standards or the Creative Commons. He was also blogger behind the very successful Google Weblog. Via instant messenger, Philipp Lenssen  interviewed him in a very interesting chat on Reddit, [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 5th, 2007

Chizen (Adobe CEO) was at San Jose State University in front of the engineering school, and discussed the challenges of the competitive software market.
…Chizen was straightforward in his assessment of Microsoft as a bullying tech power – a perspective that’s not surprising given Redmond’s latest moves challenging Adobe’s strongholds in PDF, Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash/Flex. [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 17th, 2007

Well, we tried to keep it a secret as long as we could, but to be honest, we’ve been dying to tell you about the bun we’ve got in the oven. We’ll soon be welcoming a new addition to the Google Docs & Spreadsheets family: presentations.
First of all, we want to welcome the team from [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 13th, 2007

I was doing quick time searches (type initial start point, and the different destinations to see how long it’d get there). Looking for places to go for our anniversary. The wife wanted nearby, so I was getting different ideas together.
Well silly me wanted to see drive time from Napa, California to Santa [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 2nd, 2007

Google Pack makes it easy to setup and protect your PC, and now we’ve added two new applications to make your PC even safer: Symantec’s Norton Security Scan, which detects and removes viruses, and PC Tools’ Spyware Doctor Starter Edition, a top-rated anti-spyware utility. Both are free and include automatic protection updates with no paid [...]

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Patrick Havens on March 23rd, 2007

The Daily Show Responds to the Viacom suing Google:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WILyl6lt7vU

Freaking hilarious clip, and looking at the info, it wasn’t uploaded by them, or they “created” a junk account.

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Patrick Havens on March 20th, 2007

R Culbertson> hmm, when did they add themes to Google Personalized Home Page?
That started me on a new wow with Google. It turns out they snuck in a new feature to allow one to personalize their “personalized homepage” with themes (look on the right hand side). [Edit: Note that the screeny changed (doesn't look the [...]

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