• Sid Ceasar

    "The guy who invented the wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius."
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Google Maps now a Drag

 Google Maps has improved its directions feature dramatically by adding “Click and Drag”: after laying out a route, click and drag any point to have Google Maps recalculate the route with updated distance and time. It works great when you don’t like the suggested route, want to take a detour or need to avoid traffic [...]

Business Plan, Funding? Who needs that…

Guy Kawasaki moderated a five-person panel where founders from the following 5 companies spoke about what it takes to get started and how they have delt with many of the issiues startups face:    
    Marcus Kazmierczak, vp of engineering, Maya’s Mom
    Markus Frind, Founder, PlentyofFish.com
    James Hong, Co-Founder, HotorNot.com
    Dave Lu, CEO, Fanpop
    Karen Northup, CEO and Founder, CoreFino
PlentyOfFish.com - amazing - Markus Frind is [...]

Skype launches new service in New Zealand

Skype offers domestic calls for zero cents per minute and international calls from mobile phones at local rates
As reported by ComputerWorld- Skype has launched a new subscription package in New Zealand, called Skype Pro. For a monthly fee of $3.55, the package offers free calls to domestic landlines – Great news but that’s got to [...]

Photosynth – Wow Factor

The Photosyth demo at ted.com would be one of the best technology demo’s I’ve seen this year. Taking the demo for a run over at labs.live.com only added to my wonder as the application seamlessly allowed you to zoom and navigate between images.
Truly impressive, that old scrapbook is destined to continue sitting on the shelf once [...]

Speed up data entry in MYOB

Having recently returned to Melbourne after 1 ½ months in New Zealand managing a smart metering RFP response (an attempt to excuse the long delay since my last post) I came back to a stack of paperwork. Groaning my way through a 100 item bank statement import in MYOB I said the magic words – ‘there [...]