Hot diggety! Today Apple unveiled its 17-inch MacBook Pro, and boy, is it a beauty! Check it out!
Apple Introduces 17-inch MacBook Pro
Hot diggety! Today Apple unveiled its 17-inch MacBook Pro, and boy, is it a beauty! Check it out!
Scientists debunk astrology
Discovery News has a great article detailing a large study done to see if there’s any connection between astrological signs and personality traits. The result: no such thing. I had a hunch this was true for some time now, and I’m glad to see scientific proof of it. Here’s the article.
Judge rules in favor of allowing employees to surf the net at work
A New York judge has just ruled employees can’t be fired for surfing the Internet at work, as long as it doesn’t interfere with their productivity – he talked about it as an activity similar to using the phone. Techdirt has the details on this. He is to be lauded for his wonderful ruling! Allowing employees to surf the net increases their productivity; it doesn’t decrease it. Those people who surf the net to waste time would find other ways to waste it, so they can’t be used as a reason to curtail Internet access for the productive employees.
On demand airflight to arrive by at least end of year
A company called DayJet will start taking orders from customers later this year for “on demand flying”. They have these light, 4-passenger airplanes called the Eclipse 500, and will let passengers book them for flights between cities that don’t normally offer commercial flights. CNET has the details in this article. I’m curious to find out what their pricing looks like, and how safe it’d be to fly in their airplanes.
A review of SimplyHired
I’ve been using SimplyHired for the past few days, and wanted to share my impressions with you. The site is an aggregator. It pulls job listings from all of the major job sites and filters them for you based on your search criteria. At my latest check, they were indexing over 5,381,261 jobs. That’s a LOT of jobs!
I love the search by zipcode feature. I was able to punch that in, plus a keyword, and boom, I got a listing of all the jobs matching that keyword near my home. Beautiful! What’s also very cool is that the site’s using AJAX, so when you save something, the entire page doesn’t have to refresh.
Without creating an account, I was able to save jobs to look at them later. When I decided to create an account, those same jobs I’d saved showed up under it after I logged on. Nice!
You can rate jobs and put comments next to each, like, “applied 4/24/06”, which is what I did. (Incidentally, I’m looking for a job…) The jobs are then sorted automatically based on your rating, with the highest-rated ones bubbling up to the top.
The design is beautiful and clean. The color scheme is great. The functionality works better than advertised. What can I say, I love it!
Raoul Pop 