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Archive for March, 2006

Five Ways to Improve Performance on Your Wordpress Site

Posted by Dan Grossman on March 27th, 2006

Slow loading sites annoy me. Given that this site was becoming increasingly slow and annoying, I recently made a number of changes and, as a result, performance is much better. If you run Wordpress on a managed host, read on. If you don’t maintain a blog or if you do so […]

Maintenance

Posted by Dan Grossman on March 24th, 2006

Due to frustration with this site’s performance–it sometimes takes too long to load–I’ve decided to switch web hosts. That in mind, aventureforth.com (and email) may be flaky for the next day or so. Things should be back by Monday, hopefully faster than before.
If you use Wordpress and are considering a move of […]

Google vs The World

Posted by Dan Grossman on March 23rd, 2006

Given recent coverage of Google’s new Finance portal, I hadn’t noticed that they’ve also begun to integrate their core search product with Google Base.
For example, Googling “cars” produces an option to “refine your search,” as shown here:

Then, clicking “search vehicles” takes you directly to Base.

Similar things happen for searches on jobs and […]

Microsoft vs MySpace

Posted by Dan Grossman on March 22nd, 2006

The news that Microsoft is delaying (until 2007) Vista, the next consumer version of Windows, isn’t much of a surprise. Well, maybe it is surprising considering that just last week Steve Ballmer said Vista would come out before the end of the year, according to ZDNet (found after reading a tip by Paul […]

More Novel Computer Interaction Systems…

Posted by Dan Grossman on March 19th, 2006

In a comment on my last post, Mike pointed out another interesting approach to interface design, this time from a team at NYU. The description:
While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, […]