See which search engine gets you the most relevant results in a blind test. The most relevant for my search criteria came from Google. It would be cooler if they included some of the lesser-known search engines too… like Teoma, Alltheweb, WiseNut, etc.
Google base is quickly becoming a haven for free porn.
I added some google analytics tags to my home page, this blog, and loveandrespect.com. That was 3 days ago. Have I seen any data yet? Any at all? Nope. However, whenever I log in, I’m given the following optimistic message:
“Analytics has been successfully installed and data is being gathered now. Your first reports will be ready within twelve hours.”
It’s been 5 consecutive 12 hour periods since that message first appeared and I’ve yet to see a report. Thanks Google!
A friend of mine has a Mac, and after upgrading to one of the newest software releases found that the computer reports him having half the memory he had before. He started to dig into it, and found threads like this. Lots of people are having this problem and Apple hasn’t officially acknowledged it. Apparently there were a number of discussions on the apple forums but they were shut down by moderators. This could be a class action lawsuit if it gets out of hand.
If you’re a Flickr user, you can get 10 free 4×6 prints of your photos to promote their new printing features. [Found via Lifehacker]
If you’re running a web server from your house, you’re more than likely disappointed at the speed of it when accessing it from the outside, because your upload bandwidth (for DSL or cable) is pretty slow. There is an amazingly simple thing you can do to speed that up – enable mod_deflate which comes with apache2. It is a module that will compress the HTTP responses by zipping them up and sending less data over the wire. This article shows how to do it, and how to measure the fact that it’s working. I didn’t even know that most modern browsers are capable of decompressing gzip’ed web pages, but indeed they are. I have observed the front end to mythtv being much more responsive after implementing this change.
A friend of mine is putting together a MythTV system, and walking through the full experience. It might be worth following if you’re a total nerd like myself.
Looks like MythTV is getting some slightly more mainstream coverage. It’s still a very nerdy project.
So it looks like there were no confirmed time travelers at the time-traveler convention yesterday.
The question that really blows your mind is – does that mean we should still be advertising? I’m sure the answer is yes, but the difficult part to conceptualize is what the benefit would be to us (individuals living now) since we have already passed that time and no one showed.
The only authority we can really turn to on a subject like this is Doc Brown.
So, by now everyone has seen Google Maps and by and large find it very impressive. You might even have seen the housing finder that someone built by integrating google maps and craigslist, or that someone developed a mechanism for integrating Flickr with google maps and called it Geobloggers. Cooler still is the fact that Amazon is working on a yellow pages such that you can see pictures of the businesses, and in fact walk down streets and see what’s nearby.
This is all pretty cool stuff. What I’d really like to see is someone integrate this mapping/photographic stuff in such a way that it also reflects time. For example – lets fast forward a few years when we all have cameras in our phones, and those cameras are actually decent (multi-megapixel) quality. When we take a picture, not only is the time captured with it (very common these days) but also the GPS co-ordinates (less common these days). You now have an image that looks good, and it is tagged with where on earth it was taken and when. Now you zap this phone off to an online service… like a Mobog of the future.
What might we end up with? How cool would it be to be able to browse your city or town and see what was going on at a given instant in time? How about big events like concerts? See the band from multiple angles. See yourself in others’ pictures. Maybe even big world events… like 9/11. We could have thousands of pictures of something like that from numerous angles at various instances in time. Then zoom out and slide over and see what was happening in Los Angeles at that same point in time.
I think something like that would be pretty damn cool. I also don’t think we’re that far away from seeing it.