Todd Boss

They’re still missing a few bike paths in my neighborhood, but it’s a great start.

This app is pretty smart.  Even in this early experimental release it’s already an improvement from the built-in contacts search.  You can also use it to launch apps and browser bookmarks, which is a nice bonus.

Check out the BPW’s page for details on how to nominate Holland for gigabit Internet service from Google!

This is great.  Now when I find a phone number online, I can just call it from whichever phone I want via the browser without having to transcribe it from the screen to the phone keypad.

Google Chrome is a quick, quick browser, but if you have it set to automatically detect your proxy settings, it can be IE6-slow to launch.  Here’s how you fix it:

1. Click the wrench menu.
2. Select Options.
3. Click the Under the Hood tab.
4. In the ‘Network’ section, click the Change proxy settings button. This will open the ‘Internet Properties’ dialog box.
5. Click the LAN settings button.
6. Deselect the ‘Automatically detect settings’ checkbox.

Brilliant.  Simply brilliant.  Google has released a plugin for IE6+ that will run Chrome inside a frame, thereby allowing users to experience a modern browser and developers to quit coding for a woefully-nonextinct dinosaur.