Spotlight IT Ramblings Blog: July 2004

ISP login accounts

Here is a web page that contains dialup phone numbers with free username and
password for accounts with Eircom.net IOL indigo etc.

http://iiu.taint.org/w/SummaryOfIrishIsps

google print

Google print / books service

http://print.google.com/print/doc?isbn=0060187018
http://print.google.com/print/faq.html (c) 2004
http://services.google.com/print/info (c) 2003

Scans and adds AdSense paid listings to print content, similar to Amazons
books index where you can preview pages of books.

MS buys Lookout and Google release Picasa

Microsoft has bought Lookout which is a two-person startup whose software
plugs into Outlook.

According to the Los Angeles Times: "Lookout's software installs a search
box in Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program that lets users find things
anywhere on the computer desktop. But analysts predict that the Redmond,
Wash.-based company will move that search box into its Internet Explorer
browser, letting users search the Web and the contents of their PCs
simultaneously."

Google is reportedly extending its reach to the desktop starting with
www.Picasa.com, a picture-album tool it started giving away for free only
days after acquiring the company.

Painting your home

Visualise your new room colour scheme with downloadable tool from crown paints

This Flash based tool allows you to pick the colours of the walls, skirting, floor etc in a number of room scenarios. You can also import a picture of your own room, define zones for different colours and see what it would look like in different colours...

crown colour

Used to create the Spotlight Office color scheme and DVD Store Office color scheme