Google Health
Posted on May 20, 2008 - Filed Under Google | Leave a Comment
Google has officially launched yet another product, this one designed to help you take control of health matters, especially record keeping.
While it remains to be seen whether entrusting your personal health records to Google is ultimately a good idea, the service does offer some value as a convenient online place to store and manage your […]
The New Leader is…
Posted on May 19, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
Google has passed Yahoo to become the most popular Web site in the US, according to rankings by the number of unique visitors on a monthly basis.
Google Inc. has been the leader in searches for some time, but has been behind Yahoo when counting other services such as e-mail and photo sharing.
System Inspector
Posted on May 18, 2008 - Filed Under Software | Leave a Comment
If you ever look at Task Manager in Windows, you probably don’t get a lot of good useful information from the tab that says ‘Processes’. I know I don’t. It’s primarily an overview of things running at that moment in time but it only shows the top-level info, the underlying processes remain hidden.
Read More..>>Glad to be home
Posted on May 17, 2008 - Filed Under General | Leave a Comment
After finding this information, I’m kinda glad to be home from Florida, though admittedly I wasn’t hanging out in the water or marshland.
It’s rather eerie to know there as many as 30,000 pythons on the loose in Florida.
Giant pythons capable of swallowing
Blurred Vision
Posted on May 16, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Google Maps, Software | Leave a Comment
After complaints of privacy invasion started coming in, Google has begun automatically blurring faces of people captured in the street photos taken for Google Maps.
Although Google’s Street View service was not the first to augment online maps with photos, the detail and breadth of images on the site surprised and unsettled many users when it […]
XP SP3 Update
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Software | Leave a Comment
As much as I have touted XP over Vista, along comes Microsoft with Service Pack 3 for XP to foul everything up. Maybe they figure since they messed up with Vista SP1 and are getting plenty of bad press for that, they might as well equalize everything by fouling up XP. If users sense that […]
Read More..>>Piracy Up
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under General, Internet, Software | Leave a Comment
Just back from vacation and a short hiatus — so here we go again, hopefully with some news or views of interest to you.
According to a new study, software piracy is worse now than ever. Estimates are that nearly 40% of all commercial software copies are fake, with a cost to the industry of almost […]
Where To Now?
Posted on May 10, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft | Leave a Comment
Microsoft will just build their own search and ad business, Gates says, since they withdrew the $47.5 billion offer for Yahoo.
Bill says all they need to do is hire great engineers and surprise people at how well they can compete, even with Google’s lead. Let’s see now. If he paid those engineers
Clearwire
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under Internet, Tech News | 1 Comment
Is this the news you dial-up folks have been waiting on?
Sprint and Clearwire on Wednesday formally announced that they are forming a new publicly traded company — to be called Clearwire — with the goal of building a WiMax network across the USA.
WiMax is similar to WiFi in that it offers speedy, wireless Web surfing. […]
Xobni
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under Microsoft, Software, Tech News | Leave a Comment
A startup called Xobni has just released a new, free plug-in for Microsoft Outlook that aims to help make email more searchable and more social. Xobni — which is inbox spelled backwards — appears as a collapsible, vertical sidebar situated on the right-hand side of the Outlook window.
The software’s main function is search, and it does […]