Europe is the only continent without a desert.

While our eyes are the same size from the day we were born, our ears and nose keep growing.

Horses can eat for 24 hours without stopping.

Galileo became totally blind just before his death.

The U.S. of A shreds 7,000 tons of used currency each year.

Only 3 have ever won medals on both the Winter Summer Olympics: Eddie Eagan USA, Jacob Thames Norway, and Christa Luding-Rothenburger Germany.

Shakespeare spelled his own name in several different ways.

More redheads are born each year in Scotland than in any other place in the world.

In February of 2008 Adobe Systems announced Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). Adobe Air’s runtime environment is designed to bring a websites interactive content to your desktop without an Internet browser. Using Flash and HTML developers can access the API (application programming interface) and bring dynamic content from a website to a local application. The local application serves the user just as any other software would. Whether online or offline, users can access the content of websites like eBay.

Adobe Air provides users with the ability to drag and drop information to interact more easily with websites. Users can store certain sets of data such as transaction history, photos, and the like for access when offline. 

EffectiveUI, of Denver, Colorado, created eBay Desktop using Adobe Air. EffectiveUI revamped the entire user experience by creating the desktop application. eBay Desktop users now have the ability to drag and drop photos and text directly into the new application. Additionally, they can view some data while not connected to the Internet, users are able to display information from bids in real time through the use of ‘AJAX’ and, users can customize search and bidding pages as a result of the desktop application.

More information about Adobe AIR can be found on Adobe’s Website.

Directly from the Official Gmail Blog. Gmail takes precautionary measures to prevent sending those “nasty drunk emails” late at night.

By adding a new feature called Mail Goggles, Gmail can help determine if you are in the right state to be sending emails.

You can configure the new feature for certain days of the week and times within those days. By default it’s active on the weekends during the wee hours of the night - when most are likely to send inappropriate messages.

Although this is hardly relevant for the purposes of Axis’ blog, it demonstrates with unequivocal honesty, creativity and corporate culture that is not only condoned but promoted within Google. Google, along with innovation superstar, 3M, allows each employee to spend a certain percentage of their work week on individual projects. Both 3M and Google, take this approach to innovation because they realize each person in their own right can potentially develop a stunning new product or service that will be valuable - maybe not to everyone but possibly to a small niche.

Again, this information came directly from the Official Gmail Blog: Read the full article.