Smart Tech Tips

“If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.” With those words, Walt Disney set out to build an empire from our dreams and fantasies. Today I stumbled upon something truly magical. Disney has put their whole park into the realm of virtual tourism. True your kids won’t talk to you for a while if you opt to get them there virtually instead of physically. Think of the long line and humidity you’re sparing your family, though. Using over 450GB worth of about 85,000 photos, they are able to recreate the whole of Disneyland Paris. Just install google earth and start your virtual vacation.
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If you have your computer hooked up to your HD TV and would like to view youtube videos directly from your couch, this is for you.

http://www.youtube.com/xl

This is a version of youtube that includes large buttons and easy navigational markers for people to see from far away. If you have Microsoft Media Center, point the built-in browser to this address and enjoy youtube content from your couch.
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The browser space is getting really crowded. On the Mac your default browser is Safari, but you have many choices to pick. Now you can add Google Chrome to that mix. it’s available here http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/. Warning! It is still under development so you should be aware it may not be stable. If you have to try the lastest and greatest, this is definately worth a try. Early reviews in the windows world says that it is very fast due to an optimzed javascript engine.

Google released an API for ‘Google Talk’ that will allow developers to write applications that piggyback off the Instant Messaging platform.

It is currently only available in the developer sandbox.

Here’s how to do it.

Good Luck and have fun!