I recently discovered this URL: http://google.com/ie Essentially it is a no frills version of Google Search. There are no advertisements and results are displayed as a list of links. Speeds are surprisingly even faster than the normal Google search. I came about this information when viewing Fravia’s web site about search techniques. A very interesting…
My Thoughts on Macworld 2008
This was the first Macworld (Steve Jobs Keynote) that I actually kept tabs on since switching over to Apple hardware last year. I had watched recordings of the previous events and this year definitely did not top the last 2. I mean, Randy Newman was the one more thing which I thought was pretty lame…
Getting Around a College Firewall and Bandwidth Throttling
My college, like most others across America employ a restrictive firewall and limit bandwidth for certain file transfers. YouTube in particular is severely limited on my campus making viewing virtually impossible on weekends and painfully slow any other time. Fortunately though, I learned a little more about the network setup and how they prioritize different…
I Predict the Blu-Ray Disc Format Will Be the Winner
Update: I was right! We have repeated history and now have another format war much like VHS vs. Betamax, but now with digital technology instead analog. The uncertainty about which format would receive mainstream adoption has made most people avoid the move to high definition altogether until everything is sorted out. After all, to most…