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Holiday season in March?
This week was a pretty exciting week for a geek like me. Google Voice was rolled out, iPhone 3.0 was announced, and the hardware for our new Zimbra server shipped. Google Voice, the successor to GrandCentral has lots of cool features. So far I like the SMS forwarding and the voicemail transcription is interesting (it sort of works; it seemed to get a phone number pretty well). The call quality seems decent and the ability to call any number from the web site is also quite useful. I discontinued my GrandDialer application as I don't have any time to work on it. Another developer is working on GV Mobile which looks quite promising.
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Documentation made easy
About a month ago, I wrote about a program called ScreenSteps for creating documentation for work. I bought the program because nothing else was out there that I could find (I'm not ready to do video documentation), but had major reservations in that the app was created using a cross platform tool. I've been using ScreenSteps to create lots of documentation, but have grown increasingly frustrated at it as it is quirky. For instance, it doesn't do auto spell checking since it doesn't use standard Mac based text editing, re-ordering steps don't always work, and the dialogs look like crap.
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Cool wall
As our son gets older, we realized that we'll need some place to place his artwork, pictures, and our items. Most people use magnets to put this on their refrigerator, but our fridge has wood inserts on the front to match our cabinets. Unfortunately this means, magnets won't stick to it. My parents painted their wall with some type of metallic paint, so we thought that would be cool. My wife ordered a paint additive this weekend and we received it on Thursday. I put 4 coats of primer mixed with the metallic additive on a wall adjacent to the kitchen and it seems to be working well. Magnetics stick to it and we can put pictures on it. Of course it isn't going to hold heavy pictures like magnets on a fridge, but it looks like it will do the trick. So far, I'm quite happy with this and I hope our son likes it as well.
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Flaw in San Diego's water conservation plan
Another letter to the editor: