Usability

Can Google News (or ESPN) predict the future?

ByCarlos Granier 2006/09/012006/11/15

A funny thing happened today… I was searching Google News for tennis, wanting to read up on Andre Agassi’s amazing five-setter last night against Marco Baghdatis at the US Open.

Amazingly enough, second among the search results was the following text:

“ESPN: On late Thursday night Andre Agassi bowed out of the US Open…

… following his third round loss to Benjamin Becker.”

Interesting… the article is dated September 01, 2006, and as I recall Agassi won last night’s second round match against Baghdatis. Agassi won’t get to play is third round match against Becker for a couple more days.

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3 ways to use Google as a dictionary

ByCarlos Granier 2011/09/082011/09/08

Use these quick hacks to use Google as a dictionary. 1. If you only want a quick word definition, prepend your Google search with define: For instance,Â https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=define:animal will give you a quick dictionary definition, followed by normal search results. Use define:search-term to get a quick dictionary definition 2. If you want a more complete definition…

Google Buys YouTube for US$1.65 Billion in Stock

ByCarlos Granier 2006/10/092006/11/15

According to an MSN Messenger Alert I just received, MSNBC is reporting that Google has indeed bought YouTube for US$1.65B in stock. More details as they come in. UPDATE: Both TechCrunch and Mashable have confirmed the story at this time. UPDATE 2: Google has issued a press release.

allSnap – Autoalign windows

ByCarlos Granier 2006/08/242006/08/24

allSnap is a small system tray app that makes all top level windows automatically align like they do in programs such as Winamp or Photoshop. When moving a window, it will automatically snap to screen edges or other windows’ borders.

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How to send group emails from your iPhone

ByCarlos Granier 2009/07/182011/03/25

Easily address email messages to large groups using your iPhone’s native Mail app. This trick even works with the Camera app.

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7 Missing Features from the iPhone 3G

ByCarlos Granier 2008/06/102008/06/12

Apple’s announcement of the new iPhone 3G puts to rest all the crazy rumors about new features it may include. Here are seven features I was waiting for but never materialized.

Mark Cuban says Only a moron would buy YouTube

ByCarlos Granier 2006/09/292006/11/15

It seems Mark Cuban has no love for video sharing website YouTube. According to this Reuters article, Cuban told a group of advertisers in New York that “anyone who buys YouTube is a moron.” Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for several billion dollars back in the dot com era, feels that the potential for…

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