Windows Live Local - Virtual Earth Technology Preview

Wow! Make that seamless stiched panoramas of everywhere on the globe and that would be something amazing!

Read more at preview.local.live.com/

Goowy really is Licky and Sticky

I decided to give this site a try after hearing about it on ITN podcast with Leo and Amber. Protopage was pretty cool. Goowy is cooler taking it a step (or two, or a few, maybe a lot) further. Free is nice too! Give it a try, dump it if you don't like it. It also has an interesting desktop widget like interface that you can take or leave. I'm not sure if all the bugs are worked out of it as it acted a bit weird at first on my computer. Maybe it was just trying to make friends with my firewall and was a bit preoccupied. Couple of things I did notice using firefox. Goowy is Flash based so, for a good experience I recommend adding the site to your whitelists if you use flashblock (obviously) and Adblock plus (seemed to mess up the windowsize with the adblock transparent icon making scrollbars apear).

Testing Performancing Firefox Extension

Burried deep within the Firefox popular extensions I ran accross this blogging extension called Performancing. I'm not sure why they called it that but at first glance I would never had guessed that it was an in-browser blog editor, which actually looks and works quite well.

Actually, I ran into some problems after I hit the publish button. I almost gave up on the extension. :( I still really like the interface, it's just what I wanted. The main problem posting was with the hyperlink I was trying to post. I didn't seem to like it, and worked just fine when I removed it. Also, I was a bit bummed that I couldn't just drag my window snapshot from my desktop into the interface. Actually, It did go in but I think it was an image linked to my desktop. I'll have to do some messing around to see if it was classic DSO error (dumb @#%! operater) or the interface. Keep an eye on this one.