Tech.It.2.Me->{By.Anton.Perez}

I found this on the GeekAlerts website:

Very cool but expensive – it’s around $246!  It, however, can be very useful when watching a movie in the theaters.

Well, really, it’s a door the retracts under (or into) the car frame.  Check out this video and enjoy.

When I logged into my WordPress-driven website, I noticed a new link called Turbo on the top left:

Clicking it brought this up:

Like Google Docs and Remember the Milk, it essentially is using Google Gears to speed up page load time of WordPress’ images, scripts, and CSS files.  So what is Google Gears?

According to text in Google Code:

Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:

• A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
• A database, to store and access data from within the browser
• A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

Google Gears is currently an early-access developers’ release. It is not yet intended for use by real users in production applications at this time.

Very cool!

It seems the Gmail service went down today. And in response to a request for an explanation about the problem, Google sent the following statement to InternetNews.com:

Since about 2 p.m. Pacific Time today, many Gmail users have
been unable to access their email. We are very sorry for this
interruption in service. The issue is being caused by a temporary
outage in the contacts system used by Gmail, which is preventing Gmail
from loading properly. We are starting to roll out a fix now and hope
to have the problem resolved as quickly as possible. Even though you
may not be able to get to your inbox right now, your mail is safe,
including new incoming messages.

The point: All systems go down at one point or another.

It seems StumbleUpon has recently been getting the “slashdot” effect:

What’s with the username-password info?  And the ton of arrays?