This morning I woke up to find my Facebook page was completely re-designed. Over all it looks like an improvement except it will take me 10 days to figure out where everything is again. Here are some pics 
Here is the help page that tells you more about it http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage.php
Tags: facebook, Redesign, screen, social network
This morning when I woke up Facebook suggested I upgrade my browser to IE 8, or Chrome or Firefox. The funny thing is that I was running the latest version of Chrome at that time. I tried opening IE 8 and Firefox and on both it gave me the same suggestion. Facebook I believe you had too much to drink 
Merry Christmas~
I’ve been busy at work lately one of the projects assigned to me is to create an application to redact and edit emails that will be sent to customers. This provided a great opportunity for me to get familiar with creating a custom control in C#. I needed a way to create rich content and although C# has the rich text control it provides everything in RTF which is difficult to work with and hard to embed. So I got to work on my very own WYSIWYG control that produces HTML. So I am making it open source and available to anyone have fun and enjoy if you make any cool modifications to it let me know. I would love to include spell check ability but I don’t have much time to work on it right now.
Download Here HTMLWYSIWYG
Sample Uses
private void button1_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Gets the HTML Code generated by the control
Console.WriteLine( htmlwysiwyg1.getHTML())
//Getts the PLain Tex code generated by the control.
Console.WriteLine(htmlwysiwyg1.getPlainText());
}
private void frm_main_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Sets the control to allow edits
htmlwysiwyg1.allowEdit(true)
//Loads the HTML into the control
htmlwysiwyg1.setHTML("<B>BOLD</B>");
//Loads aditional fonts into the control
htmlwysiwyg1.addFont("Cambria");
}
On July 7 google posted the following on their official blog.
It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
It seems that the endless rumors about Google making an Operating System were not unfounded after all. After this announcement I went through the list of Google products, and I have found that basically Google’s model is simple. They take an existing product or function and create an improved version of it, in accordance with the company’s view. By making such a product the force the hand of the previous competitors, thus accelerating the evolution of said product and benefiting everyone.
Take Gmail for example, before Gmail came around all web based free email platforms had ridiculous restrictions 2-10 mb per account, no large attachments, poor POP and IMAP support etc… Then along comes Gmail and it blows all the caps and restrictions providing free unlimited space with POP and IMAP support excellent search and a snazzy interface. Immediately the competition reacts and now most of the web based email platforms support a wide range of features and unlimited space.
Google has done this with many of their products , Google Earth, Google News, Google Voice, the threat to buy the 700 mghz spectrum and many more. Google is playing a game and the thing is, that they are good at it. With this announcement about an OS they just threw the ball in Microsoft’s court. I guarantee you that the next version of “Windows” will take a lot from this.
So I installed Windows 7 as my main OS at work a few days ago just to play around in a “Production Environment” and this morning I ran into the strangest, yet most useful feature yet. Apparently in an Aero enabled PC with Windows 7 if you grab and shake your foreground window it will automatically minimize all the windows behind it, clearing all the noise. Once you are done, you can get all your windows back by shaking the screen again. Very useful! yet it can get annoying, I have several times now shaken my screen in anger or while waiting for something (who hasn’t?), and everything drops down. Check out the vid if you don’t believe me.
I haven’t posted anything in quite a while mainly due to the fact that we were constantly working on things for the wedding. Today I am proud to announce that on May 2nd 2009 I married Annie Litchfield Gomez. The wedding went on without a hitch and everything was awesome. Visit annieandjose.com to see pictures and get more info.
On April Fool’s day Google put in an over the top show with CADIE , a cute little panda that stole our hearts. But amongst the things that CADIE showed us may be the real possibility that Google Chrome Plug-ins are coming soon. CADIE in its infinite wisdom, decided that we would be better off browsing the web in 3D and thus presented us with her version of Chrome.
This version features a cool new button on the tool bar, 
by pressing it the whole screen became viewable in 3D by using stereoscopic glasses.
This in itself although a novelty doesn’t represent much. But looking at the way the layout changes and the way the button behaves, one could conclude infer that this was made utilizing what would be the plug in functionality of Chrome. So maybe in the very near future Google will reveal the next version/phase of its awesome browser.
Take it as you wish!
Tags: add-on, browser, conspiracy, google, plugins, prediction, web
This morning google introduced the world to CADIE (Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity)
Research group switches on world’s first “artificial intelligence” tasked-array system.
For several years now a small research group has been working on some challenging problems in the areas of neural networking, natural language and autonomous problem-solving. Last fall this group achieved a significant breakthrough: a powerful new technique for solving reinforcement learning problems, resulting in the first functional global-scale neuro-evolutionary learning cluster.
Since then progress has been rapid, and tonight we’re pleased to announce that just moments ago, the world’s first Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) was switched on and began performing some initial functions. It’s an exciting moment that we’re determined to build upon by coming to understand more fully what CADIE’s emergence might mean, for Google and for our users. So although CADIE technology will be rolled out with the caution befitting any advance of this magnitude, in the months to come users can expect to notice her influence on various google.com properties. Earlier today, for instance, CADIE deduced from a quick scan of the visual segment of the social web a set of online design principles from which she derived this intriguing homepage. More…
They seem to have put a LOT of effort on this joke including 3D viewing for websites using Google Chrome which ACTUALLY WORK check it out here if you have stereoscopic glasses. Way to go google, its great that you find time to have some fun when the economy is so bad!
Tags: April Fool's, CADIE, google, Panda
