Day archives: December 9th, 2005

Intel: Poor Want ‘Real’ Computers

From Wired News: Potential computer users in the developing world will not want a basic $100 hand-cranked laptop due to be rolled out to millions, according to Craig Barrett, ECO of Intel. Schoolchildren in Brazil, Thailand, Egypt and Nigeria will begin receiving the first few million textbook style computers from the MIT Media Lab run …

Who’s talking about you?

Talk Digger is a meta-search engine. It asks major search engines: “Who links that URL?” The results will then be processed and displayed on Talk Digger. It’s a neat idea, that pulls several free resources into one place. For instance, visiting http://www.talkdigger.com/index.php?surl=http://potd.chrisempey.com will let you know who is linking (or talking) about Chris’ Photo of …

Customize the Places Bar

I run Office 2003 at home and at work. At home, for some reason my Places Bar (the column of folder shortcuts that show up when you save or open an Office document) hasn’t been showing the My Documents folder. I’ve always meant to look into how to fix this, but never actually. Well, today’s …

Firefox Gradually Gaining Against IE

From Redmond Magazine: All of the noise and attention surrounding the release last month of Firefox 1.5 appears to have helped the alternative Web browser’s market share, even if those gains are still only in fractions of percentage points. “November 2005 browser numbers indicate that Firefox continues to gain market share, reaching 8.84 percent,” says …

Gmail Changes

Google seems to be making some more changes to Gmail: The “Move to Trash” option of the drop-down menu has now been changed to simply “Delete”. This confused me at first because I was so used to the “Move to Trash” option. I thought this option had been removed entirely. Thankfully it hasn’t. Now if …