Posts Tagged ‘Technology’
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Can Cuil rival Google at search?
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Most talks in Tech town since yesterday are sure to include a mention to Cuil. Pronounced “cool”, a newly launched search engine, built and founded by former Google employees. Cuil claims to be indexing more of the web than any of its rivals, including Google. It also promises an innovative approach to searching, unlike any [...]
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New lower “g” Google favicon… what were they thinking?
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Google went right ahead and changed their favicon from the familiar, blue, upper case “G”, to a lower case, lighter blue “g” with a grey-transparent gradient background…
WHY!?
First thought when I noticed that, was my browser had been hijacked and that I was at a phishing site or fraudulent Google imitator. I think that might have [...] -
Nomao - a bee at all your favorite spots!
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
I recently discovered Nomao. A brilliant service, described by its makers as “The web 2.0 recommendation service of places and events”. A cool way of pointing out your favorite spots on the map, recommending places and events.
It makes use of Google Maps, and there’s lots of cool stuff you can do there. These include embedding [...] -
Firefox, the browser E.T. would use to e-mail home
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Finally, evidence is starting to surface, the best web browser in the world Mozilla Firefox is actually based on Extra Terrestrial technology. If you ever thought it was out of this world good - it is most likely because it is!
The pictures show how the Firefox logo resembles the star V838 Monocerotis in the Monoceros [...] -
Give and Take, the $100 laptop
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
I’ve spoken about the One Laptop Per Child project before. It is a wonderful initiative founded by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. The goal is to promote world education by constructing affordable laptop PCs, best known as the $100 dollar laptops, and branded as the “XO laptops”, and delivering them to children in developing countries.
Earlier this [...]
