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Friday, March 10, 2006

So I finally got my MacBook Pro from Amazon today. It's an amazing piece of work. Setup was incredibly easy. For example, it immediately recognized my wireless network and just worked right out of the box. That would have taken hours on a PC. The damn thing just works. 

I expereienced a bit of pain with transferring my iTunes music over from my PC to my Mac. I ended up using iPodRip, which seems to work like a charm. It appears that the good ol' world of DRM prevents Apple from making this part of the switch process simple. Kind of ironic.

Other issues have just been standard growing pains. I need to learn all the keyboard shortcuts and how to live without right-click. 

By the way, I'm using the Blogger widget to post this right from my desktop. What a great idea! 

My Mac. I think I'll keep her.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Gumshoo Receives Honorable Mention in 2006 eBay Developer Challenge

I'm proud to report that gumshoo was the recipient of an honorable mention in the 2006 eBay Developer Challenge. This contest was sponsored by eBay to encourage innovative new products based on the eBay developer API.

Using the eBay API, we were able to create a sophisticated filtering, misspelleing search and risk analysis shopping engine for eBay auctions. We view this as a tremendous accomplishment and further proof that gumshoo.com is the best eBay shopping engine on the planet.