Took some time to find statistics on this. Search Engine Showdown has some numbers. A more promising search was size of Google’s index over time. My goal would be to come up with a Moore’s Law for the web (or for search). By the way, MySpace or YouTube? Alexa says YouTube is #1, but Hitwise…Continue Reading…
There’s a whole line of eTrex handheld GPS units, but no really good side-by-side comparison of all of them. So here’s my attempt. In text: PRODUCT WAAS WATERPROOF COLOR PRICE Garmin eTrex GPS with Waterproof Exterior (Yellow) No Yes No 87.85 Garmin eTrex Camouflage GPS with Hunting / Fishing Calculator No Yes No 117.1 Garmin…Continue Reading…
Some new Apple Mac laptops and IBM Thinkpads have sudden motion sensors inside, which park the hard drive heads in the event of a fall which protects your data from being damaged. It’s being used for all sorts of things, including a way to turn your Mac into a Jedi weapon. It’s surprising how many…Continue Reading…
It’s great when things go according to plan. A few months back, I messed up my computer when playing with the partitions with PartitionMagic (never use it!) Now I have a different open source package that works much better. Anyway, my computer was messed up, so I reinstalled Windows on a second hard drive. From…Continue Reading…
I used iTunes to copy songs off the VBS CD, which encoded them in AAC format (M4A container). My video editor doesn’t accept that format, so I needed to convert them to mp3. After trying lots of programs that Google offered me, many of which claimed to be “free” but were really just “free trials”,…Continue Reading…
I was thinking of just ignoring this, but then I remembered some advice from D. Muliere: be honest and don’t hide anything. Be proactive in informing people what’s happening. So with that in mind, I’m going to write a couple sentences about this troubling situation that I’ve spent a few hours thinking about. Basically, there…Continue Reading…