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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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links for 2008-03-13
SunTech Power (tags: solar energy)
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Firefox 3 Beta 4 Improves Memory Usage
Yesterday Mozilla released the latest Firefox 3 beta (Beta 4) and with that release we see improvements in the memory usage of Firefox. Firefox 2.0 has been the center of memory scrutiny pretty much since its release but that starts … Continue reading
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Third Party Desktop Applications in a Web 2.0 World
Why build desktop applications when web applications are getting more complex and essentially becoming full-featured applications in their own right? Are desktop applications important in a Web 2.0, software as a service world? I want to look at that a little bit today. Continue reading
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Tagged api, desktop applications, Google, programming, Twitter
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links for 2008-03-12
7 ways to boost your metabolism – Health – TODAYshow.com Helpful tips for boosting your metabolism (tags: losingweight metabolism exercise weightloss)
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links for 2008-03-11
Fly Through Airport Security – Wired How-To Wiki Good article on getting through airport security with as little hassle as possible (tags: howto airportsecurity airport security) Microsoft Password Checker Microsoft’s password checker is a fairly decent password checking utility (tags: … Continue reading
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Down on Apple?
Last week, Engadget had post about a possible second generation iPhone leak (New iPhone Design Leaked on iTunes? Highly Unlikely). In the comments of this post you’ll find a couple of people really dissing Apple in an extremely horrendous way. This is something that seems to have become sort of sport on the internet lately. How bad can you insult Apple. It is basically nothing but trolling, and normally one should not feed the trolls but I just had to post something because lately this kind of thing has really gotten to me. Continue reading
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