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Showcase Site of the Day is our way of saying Thank You, to any site that links to our website. To get your site listed visit here. Today's Showcase site is: Paul's Time Sink, I really enjoy your blog. On my blog, Paul's Time Sink, I write about things that interest me, and projects that I am working on. I
It appears we are just a few days away from a release that will help sites like this one that gets hammered on a daily basis by comment and trackback spam. I know that 99% of you hate the Typekey registration service and I wish they also could come up with a way to allow comments and not cause all
Thanks to Thomas for this Link. For all of your programming buff's check this out. "TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can be very simple, and any moderately skilled programmer can write one, so
My phone has rang about 20 times today from my suspense riddled Podcast from yesterday. I appreciate all of the calls but sorry folks I can't say a word at this point as to what's up. Actually I have not been told I can't say anything but I have put my own gag order into place. Their are some of
Google, the search engine company, won a federal court battle against Geico, the insurance company, today that allows the search engine to sell online advertisements tied to keywords that are also trademarked company names. Geico claimed that Google should not be allowed to display advertisements for rival insurance companies when the Geico name is used as a search keyword. U.S.
Time Warner Boosts Cable Speeds Time Warner has unwrapped a holiday gift for its cable Internet subscribers: faster downloads. The company plans to roll out increased speeds of 5Mbits and 8Mbits per second, a 2Mbit boost for its standard and premium RoadRunner cable offerings. Customers in New York will see the improved download speeds starting next Tuesday, while the rest of the country will reap the benefits come January. Time Warner says it will not increase prices for its 3.7 million broadband users.
Apple has released Mac OS X 10.3.7 via the Software Update utility. Key enhancements include improved AFP support for saving documents with long file names, improved OpenGL technology and updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers, improved FireWire device compatibility, an updated Preview application, and improved compatibility for third party applications. The 10.3.7 update is recommended for all users of Mac
PC ownership to 'double by 2010' (BBC News)The number of personal computers worldwide is expected to double by 2010 to 1.3 billion machines, say analysts. The growth will be driven by emerging markets such as China, Russia and India, the report predicted. My question is, what operating system will these new markets use on their PC's? China has already endorsed
I am using the iRiver IFP-790T as a backup recording device when recording the Geek News Central Podcast. Of the 18 shows produced we lost 1 due to a PC crash and I vowed that would never happen again. So as I record the show on the PC the iRiver MP3 player which doubles as a voice recorder is my
Showcase Site of the Day is our way of saying Thank You, to any site that links to our website. To get your site listed visit here. Today's Showcase site is: pjorge.com a personal blog, Pedro says the site is in Spanish, so it may be of limited interest for an American audience it's about everything and nothing. I write
I guess I am into domesday scenarios, and think if you are going to spend money to fire a projectile at a comet then why not fire a nuke at it and see what effect that has. Instead they plan on making a mini crater on the comet and looking at the dust. I suppose a nuke would defeat their
This is amazing check this quote out. "The Australian police have been given the power to install spyware and Trojans on suspected criminals' computers under the new Surveillance Devices Act." I wonder how many countries are already doing this? I am sure this makes privacy advocates in Australia a bit nervous because their is bound to be abuse and non
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