Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog

Fall is fast approaching, and that means new product announcements from Apple. I have written about some of Apple’s new developments earlier on my blog–you can find my previous posts here and here. Apple is set to make some new announcements in mid-September, and the word is that a new iPod Video [...]

The Google Maps Mania blog recently did a post on the educational uses of Google Maps and Google Earth. For those who have not experimented with these services, Google Maps is Google’s web-based mapping program (similar to MapQuest or Yahoo! Maps), and Google Earth is a desktop-based program (that still uses the internet) [...]

Google recently announced that they are making out-of-copyright books available as free PDF downloads via Google Book Search. See this Technorati post for more information. Here are some of the books curently available:
Ferriar’s The BibliomaniaA futurist from 1881’s 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth CenturyAesop’s FablesShakespeare’s HamletAbbott’s FlatlandHugo’s Marion De LormeDunant’s [...]

Merlin Mann of 43 Folders clued me in to this recent post by 14 year old New Zealand blogger Glenn Wolsey. Dealing with e-mail is becoming more and more difficult over time, and it is probably going to get worse rather than better. Even excluding spam (of which I get at least [...]

A really interesting meta idea that just caught my attention is SuprGlu. This is a really interesting new Web 2.0 service that allows you to pull much of your digital content floating around into one page. You give SuprGlu some blogs (Blogger, Xanga, LiveJournal), photo sharing sites (Flickr), and social bookmarking sites [...]

The Punk-o-Matic is truly awesome. This is a Flash-based punk rock track generator. Click on the squares to increase the number of drum, rhythm guitar, or lead guitar repetitions. Once you start playing with it you will be hooked. You can save your tunes or load old tunes as well. [...]

I recently wrote a post (Wordpress.com versus the new Blogger) in which I compared the feature sets of the new Beta Blogger with the freely hosted blogs available on Wordpress.com, and also what new features are being rolled out in the new Beta Blogger.
This recent post from the Googolians blog makes some interesting points regarding [...]

Anyone who is interested in how blogging evolved should check out a great summary available online from Rebecca Blood. I discovered this post from Darren Rowse of Problogger.net. Darren is a professional blogger and maintains a number of different blogs. His Problogger blog is a very interesting read–I check in daily. [...]

Recently I have been playing around a lot with Eyespot , the video shaing/editing/mixing application by David Dudas and company. Eyespot was created in 2005 and is really a cool application. Although it has only a fraction of YouTube’s juggernaut of a user base, Eyespot is definitely worth a visit. You can [...]

I’ve been playing with Google Mars recently. Click on the picture of Mars to try it out. You can zoom in fairly close and move the map around like Google Earth. Also, try switching between elevation, visible, and infrared modes.
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