Posted in techie on August 8th, 2007 Comments Off
My uncle forwarded me this article, pretty interesting stuff so I thought I would pass along to all of you. It’s about a company that is building a search engine with hopes of indexing all of the 6 billion people in the world. It didn’t give much info on how it plans to do this [...]
Wikipedia founder recently announced plans to go after the search engine market with a new way of managing search. The search engine would be community developed similar to how Wiki’s are run, which would give more power to publishers over the search results. It is an interesting concept, I’m not sure it would work but [...]
Maybe it’s just the geek in me but this video is too freakin funny. So many great one liners like: Tony Snow said admitted they don’t have a backup of the Internet I feel like Control Alt Deleting myself He said in a letter he transmitted to us in an archaic telephone based system of [...]
Posted in best-of-web, google on July 9th, 2007 Comments Off
I’ve already pointed out the Better Gmail Firefox extension, well now Gina from Lifehacker has released a Better GCal extension. Right now there’s not a ton in it, however it’s worth it just for the ability to text wrap events and for the sweet air skin. If you are a Google Calendar user (and why [...]
I’m still all backlogged from the Europe vaca, then a week in CT for work, and now trying to organize and upload our photos. But I just woke up from my technology hibernation (yeah I do know iPhones are out- you could live in a cave in Afghanistan and know about those things) long enough [...]
Posted in techie on June 21st, 2007 Comments Off
A friend told me about this at lunch the other day and I thought this was pretty darn cool. Microsoft is putting out a touch-sensitive table that will soon be available in restaurants, hotels, and retail shops. The “table” is really a surface computer that is highly interactive- just think of the movie Minority Report. [...]
Posted in firefox on June 19th, 2007 Comments Off
See link for a short article about how the Safari (Apple) browser support different ways of encoding images that will allow for deeper and richer colors. Not to fear my fellow Firefox users, because those better colors will be coming soon when Mozilla releases v3 of Firefox which is expected later this summer. Considering we [...]
Posted in best-of-web, entertainment, software on June 18th, 2007 Comments Off
Just found out about this last week and unfortunately things have been to crazy to really play around on it much, but nonetheless I was thrilled to discover Nintendo8.com. The site hosts all the classic 8-bit games my generation grew up playing and the best part is it’s free and no downloads are required as [...]