With the closure of a number of I90 bridge lanes, I spent a lot of time waiting in and thinking about traffic.The WSDOT has a Seattle Travel Times page that lists commute times between various cities in the Seattle area given the current traffic...
Topics: General

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The Picnik API makes it easy to add online image editing to any site that hosts images. For the benefit of those coding in Rails, here's a summary of how I integrated Picnik with iLike to allow our users to touch up photos after upload.I used the...
Topics: General

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I wrote an earlier post on how to replace you're cellphone's voice mail with Google Voice. That was for generic GSM phones; happily those instructions work without change on the iPhone.I use Google Voice for my voice mail because it forwards...
Topics: General, Mobile

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I have been a long time Blackberry fan, and even wrote Beyond411, a popular local search application for the Blackberry. But with the release of the iPhone 3GS, I finally reach my personal tipping point and bought an iPhone.My story is a common one;...
Topics: Berry 411, General, Mobile

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Google Voice offers a really compelling set of voicemail features, much better than what US cellphone carriers offer. You can view, search, and listen to your voicemails from any phone or web browser, with textual transcripts generated using automatic...
Topics: General

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