January 2010 Archives

Google has generally great products, although some I don't like as well as competitors (Gmail for example). I still use them as my primary search engine—after a 2½ year hiatus while I worked for Yahoo and ate our own dogfood. And Google Reader is by far the best RSS app out there. Even Google shopping is an essential tool when buying online. They are more comprehensive than Yahoo or Bing. But it seems where they are really shining is in public policy.

I gave them props for bidding up wireless spectrum, and forcing it to be someone more open. I also love how Gmail finally lit a fire under a complacent online mail competition. My Yahoo Mail experience is vastly improved, and the root cause for that is Gmail. And now—with their strong stance against the crap that the Chinese government is doing—they have clearly put long term ethics over short term business gains. However this standoff turns out, they've done good by putting a global spotlight on the operation of the Chinese government.

or maybe it's more like Dances with Wolves. You decide.

If you're looking for a good physics game for the iPhone at a great price (free!), then download Stackus today. It's free. I picked it up the last time it was free, and I really enjoyed it. I played through all of the levels, which is more than I can say for 99% of the games I tried out.



For more free games—especially paid games that are temporarily free—check out AppShopper.

I've been playing Words with Friends on my iPhone. It's a pretty good knock off of Scrabble. But if you're gonna win, you need to know your two letter words. I created this list that sorts them alphabetically both by first letter and last letter. Hope it helps!

AAs  ABs  ADs  AE   AGs  AHs  AIs  ALs  
AM   AN   ARs  ASs  AT   AW   AX   AYs
BAs  BEs  BIs  BOs  BYs
DE   DOs
EDs  EFs  EH   ELs  EMs  ENs  ERs  ESs  ET   EX
FAs  FEs
GOs
HAs  HEs  HIs  HM   HO
IDs  IFs  INs  IS   ITs
JO
KAs  KIs
LAs  LIs 	LO
MAs  ME   MIs  MM   MOs  MUs  MY
NA   NE   NOs  NUs
ODs  OEs  OF   OHs  OI   OMs  ONs  OPs  ORs  OS   OW   OX   OY
PAs  PEs  PIs
QIs
REs
SH   SIs  SOs
TAs  TIs  TO
UH   UM   UNs  UPs  US   UTs
WE   WOs
XIs  XU
YA   YEs  YO
ZA

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AAs  BAs  FAs  HAs  KAs  LAs  MAs  NA   PAs  TAs  YA   ZAs
ABs
ADs  EDs  IDs  ODs
AE   BEs  DE   FEs  HEs  ME   NE   OEs  PEs  REs  WE   YEs
EFs  IFs  OF
AGs
AHs  EH   OHs  SH   UH
AIs  BIs  HIs  KIs  LIs  MIs  OI   PI   QI   SIs  TIs  XI
ALs  ELs
AM   EMs  HM   MM   OMs  UM
AN   ENs  INs  UNs
BOs  DOs  GOs  HO   JO   LO   MOs  NOs  SOs  TO  WOs  YO
OPs  UPs
ARs  ERs  ORs
ASs  ESs  IS   OS   US
AT   ET   ITs  UTs
MUs  NUs  XU
AW   OW
AX   EX   OX
AYs  BYs  MY   OY

A DVD rewinder? Seriously!? No one is stupid enough to buy one of these, are they?