Big Bad Bison » Technology http://bigbadbison.com web & creative studios Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:47:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Gravatar http://bigbadbison.com/blog/2009/07/24/gravatar/ http://bigbadbison.com/blog/2009/07/24/gravatar/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:54:25 +0000 Big Bad Bison http://bigbadbison.com/?p=72 Almost every website on the Internet that allows you to create a profile gives you the option of uploading an avatar. The guys at Automattic came up with the brilliant (and simple) idea of creating a single source for these avatars.

Once you create an account you can upload images to be used as avatars and associate them with individual email addresses. Website owners can then utilize Gravatars API to display your avatar on their site as long as they have your email address.

While there is limited support for Gravatar among social networking sites I truly hope support grows soon. Hey Google, Facebook, and MySpace, either support Gravatar or offer a better solution!

]]> http://bigbadbison.com/blog/2009/07/24/gravatar/feed/ 0 Google Chrome is here! http://bigbadbison.com/blog/2008/09/09/google-chrome-is-here/ http://bigbadbison.com/blog/2008/09/09/google-chrome-is-here/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:52:03 +0000 Big Bad Bison http://bigbadbison.com/?p=66 This afternoon I tried out Google’s new browser and was extremely impressed. The focus of Chrome appears to be on simplicity and efficiency. 15 minutes of browsing made it clear that Chrome is vastly superior when it comes to speed. The ability to search in the address bar is a nice feature that also speeds up the browsing process. The home screen is also a nice feature that displays thumbnails of recently/most visited pages.

I was disappointed to find out that the bookmarks built into the new browser don’t appear to sync with Google Bookmarks. Maybe this feature is on the way, or maybe I just overlooked it, but I would definitely like to have the option. Some other features I would like to see are:
  • New email alerts from my Gmail account
  • The ability to open a new Google doc from within Chrome without having to open Google Docs
  • The ability to create new events on my Google Calendar from within Chrome without having to open Google Calendar
  • Integration with Picasa/Picasa Web
I’m not sure if Chrome is ready to replace FireFox as my default browser however it is definitely a contender.
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