Kirb’s Musings

Kirby Witmer’s ponderings, ruminations, and meditations of… anything.

I just downloaded and installed Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. One of my favorite features is how IE 8.0 highlights the domain that you are currently browsing. You can view an example in screenshot #5. One big negative at this point however is that a lot of web sites don’t display properly unless you have the Emulate IE7 mode turned on. For example, G-mail and Google Reader have some display issues. You can read more on this issue here. In time this problem should disappear.

Check out these screenshots:

I was at the local Home Depot today, and I noticed that the soda machine outside now has a credit card swipe device on it. Just my luck, I was wishing for a cold drink, although I had no cash on me. I whipped out the credit card, swiped it, and bingo, I had my cold drink. Ahhh… modern conveniences. 

This new glowing animated shirt dynamically displays the current wi-fi signal strength. Way cool.