Interesting Links

Stuff I’ve found online that you should think about checking out

16
Jul
2005

Google Earth

Everyone knows that Google is the best site to use for searching, but Google is slowly becoming a huge company that offers a wide array of services. the coolest new one that I’ve seen recently is Google Earth. It’s not web-based, but is an application you can download and install. If you’ve used Google Maps, you already know that Google bought out Keyhole and now has satellite imagery available. Google Earth takes this one step farther. In this program you can zoom through maps, and use them in all kinds of ways. It even has 3 dimensional representations of buildings so you can fly through cities.

It’s tough to explain all the useful features, but once you download it it you’ll see how much fun it is to play with even if you don’t have a serious use for it.

Oh yeah, and it’s free. Get it at http://earth.google.com.

Posted by Michael in Interesting Links, Technology
15
Jul
2005

Cooter says it’s crap

The Dukes of Hazzard is a classic show. Ever since it’s been back on television on CMT, my DVR has been working overtime recording it for me. But what prompted it’s sudden comeback is the new motion picture that’s been made. I honestly figured it was probaly going to be terrible since all of these movies usually are. Bow I have someone else’s opinion to back up my hunch.

Cooter from the REAL Dukes of Hazzard seems to agree and he’s actually read the script! Check it out at cootersplace.com.

Posted by Michael in Interesting Links, Randomness
15
Jul
2005

New Harry Potter Book

Well, I told emily I’d post a link to MuggleNet at some point and what better day than today. To is the day that the newest Harry Potter book is being released. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is being released tonight at midnight.

So in honor of that and for Emily, I’ll point out that a great place for Harry Potter info is MuggleNet.com. Another good place would be the author’s site at JKRowling.com

I’ll be waiting until the book comes out in paperback in like a year or whatever because I’m not quite the rabid fan that many people are (and I’m cheap). 😉

Posted by Michael in Interesting Links
11
Jul
2005

I’m an RSS feed

One of the benefits of having an actual blog is that it has an RSS feed. There’s a feed of my posts as well as feeds of comments for each post.

For those of you who don’t know what RSS is, it’s a feed that can be read by a news aggregator. Basically, you get information from a bunch of websites at once. The program collects the items and displays them for you. I personally check about 50 feeds everyday. I could never visit all of those websites, but its only takes a few minutes to scan through the list of items in my news aggregator.

For more info on RSS visit Wikipedia’s article on news aggregators. They even list some good choices. Personally, I use NetNewsWire for Macintosh.

Once you have a program up and running, subscribe to my feed at http://www.michaelgatti.com/blog/feed.

Or subscribe to my comments feed at http://www.michaelgati.com/blog/comments/feed

Posted by Michael in Interesting Links, Site Updates