Jul

3

Geni, Social Geni-alogy - A First Encounter

GeniSeemed like a ton of ad dollars went into the online ancestry/genealogy research market for a while and then all of a sudden it appeared to tapered off. I don’t keep tabs on this type of thing so It’s just something I observed a while back and shoved into the mental file cabinet. Today, Michael Arrington (TechCrunch for those who live in cave) reported on the latest numbers for Geni, a genealogy-based site/app that incorporates some popular social networking features. It appears to be catching on pretty well so I decided to take a look.

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Jul

3

No Customer Service in a Parallels Universe

Parallels 3.0Installed Windows Vista a while back with Boot Camp but I haven’t spent spent much time in it due to Parallels 2.x not being able to run Vista from the Boot Camp virtual. So, I was obviously excited when the Parallels crew announced version 3.0 which supports Vista via Boot Camp, as well as many other long-awaited features. Two upgrade purchases (on for each iMac) later I received the confirmation email which informed me the publisher would deliver my upgrades within forty-eight hours.

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Jul

3

iSee What iPhone Sees

Came across the page for Mac Reader, the iPhone RSS application, and got a “you’re not in the club” message. Wondered what I was missing so I decided to spoof the page via Firefox’s User Agent Switcher extension. Here’s the not-so-amazing view behind the curtain (click to zoom):

Mac Reader iPhone view

As you can probably tell, I wasn’t ready to pay for the ticket to At&tingular so for now I’ll continue to sneak in the back and hope for leftover popcorn.

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