Google Video Meets Tex Avery

Check out Tex Avery's classic MGM cartoon Red Hot Riding Hood on Google Video. Nice! Not exactly a cartoon for the kids but still innocent by today's standards. Incidentally, the sexy character Red was the inspiration behind Jessica Rabbit in the great film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

About Google Video, I think it's coming along nicely. The quality of this video is about what I expected. It's odd, this video seems to be from a ripped version (as shown in the last frame), so I wonder if Warner Brothers (who owns the rights to the MGM cartoon library) knows about this. Shhh! Don't tell them!

§165 · October 13, 2005 · Cartoons, Entertainment, QuickLinks, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Google Video Meets Tex Avery ·

Kahuna Coming

Just last week, I posted about how impressed I was with Outlook Web Access 2003. On slashdot today along comes the story that MSN Hotmail is going to undergo a much-needed Ajax facelift (called "Kahuna"). The screenshots look very similar to Outlook Web Access 2003 but with ads, so I'm sure most of the code is shared.

The update is going public some time in 2006, though phase 2 of the deployment, rolling out to 200,000 "technical enthusiasts", is starting today. Hey, I'm an "enthusiast" too...maybe I was 200,001st on their list...

This is good news, not just because Hotmail feels woefully outdated after using Gmail for a year, but I'm sure this means they'll maximize their user base and ad revenues (and avoid holy wars) by fixing the broken bits in Outlook Web Access when using browsers like Firefox and Opera. Those fixes should logically trickle back to Outlook Web Access 200x and this would strengthen the case for alternative browsers in the corporate environment.... Hmm, maybe it's not so "logical" after all 😉

§164 · October 11, 2005 · Ajax, Firefox, Opera, QuickLinks, Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Kahuna Coming ·

Taking a Crack at Thunderbird

I think this is the first time I've ever installed Mozilla Thunderbird, the email client provided by Mozilla (the same foundation that makes the excellent Firefox web browser). At least the first time I've given it any serious thought. Up until now, I've used Microsoft Outlook for my work email and a web browser for all my other emails (at least 5 other accounts). But with the release of the second Beta of Thunderbird 1.5, I thought I'd give it a whirl and post my comments. Read the rest of this entry ...

§163 · October 10, 2005 · Software, Technology, Web · 3 comments ·

Finding An RSS Reader

Yesterday I thought I'd try and step up my web-feed game by downloading a few "feed readers" and check them out. I did a search to try and find some good ones. Wikipedia has this page listing many, but it unfortunately it is light on details and (of course) does not provide a review-type information since Wikipedia's goal is to be non-biased. Read the rest of this entry ...

§162 · October 5, 2005 · Software, Technology, Web · 1 comment ·

Microsoft (hearts) Ajax

My work environment has support for Outlook web access to our Microsoft Exchange Servers so we can access our email anywhere from Internet Explorer as long as we're connected to the corporate LAN. They recently updated the version of it and I was really impressed this morning when I needed to use it (so much so that I decided to write about it). Read the rest of this entry ...

§161 · October 3, 2005 · Ajax, Firefox, Opera, Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Microsoft (hearts) Ajax ·

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