I’ve decided to pour through my Gmail account to delete and archive old emails that I’ve been too busy to move from my inbox. Sure, I really don’t have to perform this task when I can just archive everything, but I’m pretty anal about categorizing my emails, even if... Read more
Is anyone going to the recap of the IA Summit 2007? Unfortunately, I will be unable to but I’d highly recommend going. Here’s the announcement: If you missed the IA Summit in Vegas this year, fear not! DCIA will be holding a redux on Saturday, May 12 at 9am.... Read more
I had a very unique yet welcome happening the other day. My namesake, “Rob Fay” – a 16 year old living in Nottingham, England, decided to contact me. I had “Googled” my own name before to see if there were other “Rob Fays,” but I never decided to track... Read more
Today Google launched their own calendar offering. I created a Google Calendar for myself and my initial review is relatively positive, but not enough to... Read more
Well, it looks like there's a relatively stable way to get Microsoft and Apple to play together on a Mac. Have you been successful?
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I understand that one of the big reasons Grants.gov went with its current solution was so that people could fill out forms offline. However, I wonder which stakeholder is more affected - the person who cannot have constant Internet access or the person who has a Mac (or another... Read more
Today's Washington Post catches on the problems Mac users have identified for a while now - that Grants.gov does not support Mac users unless these users use a Citrix workaround.
Scientists should focus on science,... Read more
It looks as though Best Buy is offering Apple Powerbooks with what looks like the Windows 98 OS! This post may get a lot of traffic, so let me stop the speculation now... Read more
CoverFlow is an innovative software program available for Apple computer owners (Tiger only). This is a great program for those who are visually-oriented. CoverFlow visually displays your music collection by cataloging the MP3 tags and then pulling cover art from a variety of sources such as... Read more
John Battelle recently asked readers to come up with a tagline for the next Web 2.0 conference. This will be the third such conference.
Year One included the tagline "The Web Is a Platform" to which Battelle remarks,
"That felt spot... Read more
Back in May I discussed the potential misuse of a powerful mapping tool like Google Earth. Today, the New York Times reports that international governments are afraid of the potential for misuse of this... Read more
Well, I may have found a search tool that makes up for some of the limitations of my last post regarding Rollyo. It seems Chris Pirillo of G4TechTV's Call for Help fame created... Read more
Today, Yahoo! introduced its Instant Search beta - it allows users to potentially return answers as you type. Think Google's "I'm feeling lucky" but without the wait, because Yahoo's search beta leverages AJAX technologies.
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This is the second phishing attack I've received in the last 2 months. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, Webster defines phishing as
"The practice of luring unsuspecting Internet users to a fake Web site by using authentic-looking email with the real organization's logo, in... Read more
Yesterday, Google entered into the instant messaging wars by introducing its minimalist Talk client. Google based its instant messaging client on the existing open-source Jabber protocol. What's interesting is that although Google... Read more
James Melzer, fellow CLIS graduate, spoke to my grad school class last week regarding Enterprise Information Architecture. James has a great complement to Lou Rosenfeld's original.
I was a little stuck on James' use of content/document/record, but I realize I do not have... Read more
My father-in-law and I recently purchased a small video camera (iSight) that can be mounted onto the top of our Apple computers. The purpose of the camera is so that we can both... Read more
Wordpress and Secunia reported on August 9 that there is a critical security vulnerability in WordPress 1.5.1.3. I can attest to that.
Yesterday I had a very important presentation to give as part of... Read more
Jeff Gates of Life Outtacontext opened my ignorant eyes to an internet faux pas with his entertaining July 23rd entry entitled, "Don't Get Mad, Get Even." Jeff first provides the common definition for stealing bandwidth:
Stealing Bandwidth: "when someone links directly to internet files from another... Read more
Chad Dickerson, CTO at InfoWorld, announced yesterday that he will be leaving the company to join Yahoo! Research Berkeley. I've read his columns much like a moth is attracted to... Read more