Usenet’s usability has degraded a lot in recent years. But back in it’s day it was probably the most useful tool to share knowledge around. The grains of knowledge contained in Usenet even now are immeasurable. So go to: http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=& And you’ll be presented with Google’s Advanced Search. This one has several additional options to [...]

Apple released Safari 4.0 beta recently. So far I mostly like what I see. My issue with Facebook Chat and Adium seems to be fixed. The new default “home” page called Top Sites, which is a cross between Cover Flow and the bookmarks/history page is a bit annoying because it’s not as customizable as I [...]

For those who don’t know, Cuil is a new search engine by some former Google engineers that was launched today. Going to http://www.cuil.com reveals a nice simplistic site that I really like. Unluckily the site isn’t getting the best publicity by some people. At the time of this writing, the front page claims 121,617,892,992 web [...]

In case anyone is not aware, the Computer Virus is here to stay. Even with the dozens of companies that have made billions around stopping the them, computer Virus have reached into just about every possible electronic device there is. Despite the backlash against anti-Virus software, if you’re a Windows user you NEED Anti-Virus Software. [...]

Every once in a while you’ll here or read about an absolutely awesome command line utility or X11 program that you must have. After consulting the great Oracle, Google you find that the program you want is in Macports which for those who are not comfortable at the command line may cause some issues. Fear [...]