iTunes lovers on the Mac might like to try outMenuTunes. It lets you control menus, upcoming songs, previous, next, etc. from the menu. So it is system-wide and works well. I can now let the iTunes window hide behind my finder…real estate is pricey on the monitor, no?
My, my, my: I can’t believe how long it takes to find information out! Check outGoogle Suggest and enter a question. Watch as Google attempts to understand and help narrow your search. Perfect for entering questions in human speech terms rather than bibliographic ones.
Aside from the really cool use of Ajax technology,though, how is this any different from running regular Google search? In fact, it isn’t any different. The only real application of this is that it will tell you in the drop down field approximately how many results there are for that particular query. It is predictive based on the first few words you enter–but it still enters that query in the regular Google search field. In other words, it is like structured searching: it assembles previously compiled searches and attempts to predict that you will be looking for the same thing. So if you are like me–frequently searching for arcane or hard to find information, you are just out of luck. On the other hand, you are not out of luck: it just runs your query in Google (with the added benefit of helping to prevent misspellings since you simply select the word rather than typing). Hence, there is little point to this other than helping to identify that: (a) others have done this same search; and (b) there are X-number of results to it.
That said, it is an awesome instance of Ajax.
In 1998, I was living on Japan’s northern island, Hokkaido. I was there when North Korea test fired the Taepodong-1 missile (with a range of 2,500 kilometers) which sailed directly over that island. I gotta tell ya, it shook me to the core (and the rest of Japan): I’m just a boy from Nova Scotia and no one is firing missiles as us, believe you me.
Seven missiles were test-fired in the direction of Japan two days ago where my wife and son currently are (same island, her home). It is quite unnerving. Read the reactions from people living there.