Speedtest - Braeda, 33rd and Pioneers, Lincoln
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Speedtest - Panera, Gateway Mall, Lincoln
Speed Test - Scooters, Village Point Mall, Omaha
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Shortest Contribute Version Ever?
I’m not sure how long Contribute 4 has been out, but it has not been a long time. Six months? I was surprised to see, during the Adobe CS3 launch event yesterday, that a new version of Contribute (Contribute CS3) was being bundled with the web studios. I wanted to give Adobe the benefit of the doubt and assume that they were just renaming the product, but after a visit to their web site it is clear that this is considered a full upgrade and an owner of version 4 has to pay the same to upgrade to this new version as an owner of any previous version. While, neither I or Lincoln Public Schools (where I work) purchased any version 4 licenses, I can’t help but feel bad for those that have.
Braeda Internet Access - SLLOOOWW
I’m sitting at Braeda this morning having coffee while I catch up on some things and as always, the internet connection is pitiful. I wanted to know how pitiful, so I fired up one of my new favorite sites: speedtest.net
Here is what my results were:
To get a comparison, run this same test from nearly ANYWHERE and I’m sure you will get a much better speed. I only wonder if they do this on purpose to keep people from camping on it. Considering that there is nobody here, I’d say it’s working.
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Nasal Flush
This might land in the realm of TMI (too much information). After hearing a couple of stories on NPR (Got a Runny Nose? Flush It Out!) that seemed to endorse the idea of running large amounts of a saline solution through your sinuses to clear them out, I decided to give it a try. I drove down to Walgreens last night (off topic: doesn’t it seem strange when a pharmacy has a wall of tobacco products) and picked up a SinuCleanse kit that has a strange tea pot looking thing and a bunch of packets with the solution. All you do is make the solution in warm water in the pot, then pour it in one nostril and let it run out the other.
I’ll try to remember to post in a couple of weeks to tell what I think of the process. After doing it twice now my nose is VERY clear, but my ears and head feel like I just got out of the pool.
Here’s a video that will demonstrate the process…
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ApolloCamp
I guess this is Apollo day. Learn more about Apollo from these videos created at Adobe’s ApolloCamp.
Christian Cantrell: Firefox 2 Live Titles
I had forgotten about this supported feature in Firefox 2 - microsummaries. It allows people to create bookmarks of your page that you can later change the titles of - live.
Apollo Alpha Preview - lynda.com Online Training Library ™
Mike Chambers has a set of training/introduction videos up on Lynda.
Adobe Apollo - Write Your Own Desktop Apps!
Adobe has released a public alpha of it’s upcoming Apollo development software / runtime. This looks to be an incredible technology with wild possibilities. With Apollo, HTML and Flex developers (among others) can write code as they usually do, but then have it compiled into a distributable application that people can run on their computers outside of a web browser. I really expect many cross-platform applications that are generally written in Java or even REALBasic to begin showing up in this environment instead.
Go ahead. Even if you don’t develop, you can grab the runtime and try out some of the sample applications.