Nathan Laan

http://raskinformac.com/ This is really cool. I'm playing with it now. It's unstable though, and it has crashed several times on me. Very promising though.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=11354622 BP is saying that the oil spill has finally been stopped.

http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/apple-magic-trackpad-first-hands-on/ Looks interesting. Not something I'd want, but still interesting. I'm curious if Apple is going anywhere with this. They're not the kind of company that introduces products without some kind of plan for them.

http://wardiary.wikileaks.org/index.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/war-logs.html Worth reading.

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/07/23/4739027-pilot-ejects-an-instant-before-fighterjet-crashes From an air show in Lethbridge.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/windows-phone-7-in-depth-preview/ I really like the look and feel of the UI in the new Windows Phone 7. I'm not sure I would switch right away, but it's showing a lot of promise.

http://sourcegear.com/veracity/ SourceGear's Distributed Version Control System (DVCS), called Veracity , has just been released. I've been following Eric Sink's blog posts on Veracity ( here and http://www.ericsink.com/entries/veracity_tech_overview.html), and I will definitely be taking a look at this.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/07/19/vs-2010-productivity-power-tools-update-with-some-cool-new-features.aspx Looks like some interesting features.

http://antenn-aid.com/ You just knew this was coming.

http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/ I'm not sure exactly when Google announced this, but it's very interesting. Basically, it's an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that allows you to build apps for the Android platform with very little programming knowledge. Google App Inventor for Android is currently in BETA, and, based on the signup page to get access to it, it appears that it is primarily aimed for the education market.