Mister Wong is a popular European social bookmarking service that is very similar to del.icio.us. They went into private beta testing for the English version of their service about a month ago and are now open to the public.
If you’ve used del.icio.us before then you will be immediately familiar with Mister Wong. It has […]
Adam over at Lifehacker has put together a beginner’s guide to using BitTorrent which is going to save me so much time. I get friends asking about BitTorrent constantly and it can be very time consuming explaining it over and over again.
To make matters worse, it’s not really something you can explain over the […]
The New Yorker has a fascinating article on the history of electronic spam. They cover the origins of spam, how it has evolved over the years, as well as the somewhat futile attempts to try and eradicate it.
In the spring of 1978, an energetic marketing man named Gary Thuerk wanted to let people in […]
I’ve always found it odd that Google Reader has no search functionality. With search being Google’s bread and butter it is beyond me why their feed reader doesn’t have even the most basic search capability.
After looking for a solution, the best I could come up with is a Greasemonkey script for Firefox. It’s options […]
The first thing you realise when you use SeeqPod is so many people leave their files completely unsecured. This is great if you are doing the searching but not so great if you’re the one who has left the door open, especially if you have some sensitive documents lying about.
As for the service itself, […]
Bitlet is a new site that allows you to download torrents without the need for any client software.
It’s usage is pretty straightforward. All you have to do is copy and paste the url for the torrent file you want to download and hit enter. Your files will start downloading in a popup window which […]
Microsoft’s been in a punchy mood of late. First there was the news that they were releasing their own analytics package, then they acquired AdECN (an advertising exchange platform), and now they have pulled off a coup at Digg, and will be serving contextual ads for the social news monolith.
What I found the most […]
YouTube has added a very basic customization feature to its service. With only one style of background and nine color schemes to choose from it’s hardly something to get excited about.
At the moment this feature only allows you to display videos from your favourites or a custom playlist. You should be able to get […]
Wired has an interesting article exploring the mechanics of the software that the FBI used to track down a 15 year old student who made bomb threats against his school.
The software is described as a “computer and internet protocol address verifier” or CIPAV for short. If you go through the list of data […]
10 years after the first Alexa toolbar hit the Internet, a new Firefox compatible version has been released, named Sparky.
Some of the features include:
Sparkline - A very small condensed traffic history graph. Gives you a quick view to show whether the site is moving up or down.
Rank - Shows the traffic rank of the […]
