Computers, personal electronics and all other tech items
Kevin Rose makes a good point in his latest blog entry. Instant messaging hasn’t advanced very much since it’s creation. Sure the invention of the Buddy List was a huge step forward, but that was so long ago.
Kevin has a few good ideas for new features. There are many other possibilities too.
Read his post at: http://krose.typepad.com/kevinrose/2005/10/14_yrs_of_insta.html
You’ve heard me mention Leo Laporte a bunch of times in my podcast and IPTV reviews, but what about the other host of The Screen Savers. Yes, I’m talking about that kilt-wearing, sledge hammer wielding guy from New Jersey, Patrick Norton!
ZDTV/TechTV might be gone, but Patrick is back and has Robert Heron, one of the TechTV Lab Rats with him as he hosts Digital Life TV. You’ll also see some other familiar faces on the show from time to time. It comes from Ziff-Davis, the company that created ZDTV! A new show is broadcast live every Tuesday night and the video is posted in various formats the next day or so.
Check it out right now at http://www.dl.tv.
CommandN is a show from Canada that’s hosted by Amber MacArthur and Mike Lazzazzera, both from Call For Help in G4TechTV Canada. They cover tech news and happenings as well as some tips and tricks. They publish a new show each week.
Check it out at http://commandn.typepad.com.
The first IPTV show that I watch is Systm. It stars Kevin Rose and Dan Huard. You might remember them from The Screen Savers on the old TechTV. You will notice that many of the shows on this list will feature old TechTV refugees just as my podcast list did. These folks have found a great home on the internet.
They show some really geeky topics that range from building equipment to making cables.
Check it out at www.systm.org.
There’s nothing interesting for you to see in this post. Just move along and go about your normal business.
I’m just using it to claim my site on Technorati. It’s easier than going into my templates that I worked so hard to create to use their standard claim method.
Well, it’s about time! MSN and Yahoo! are going to crosslink their voice and chat services so users of either service can contact each other. I personally use AOL’s AIM and know no one in this country who uses these two. But maybe this will prompt AOL to get on board too!
I mentioned before that I started using Google Sitemaps to give my site better representation in Google’s search results. I thought I’d give you an update on my experience so far.
First, my site is getting crawled more often. However, I don’t know how often because my webhost apparently is having a problem keeping my site logs working. But based on the reports from Google, the site is getting crawled. I’ve added some new HTML to the site that allow Google to find more of my pages.
However, the results have been kind of odd. Many of my pages have been turned into supplemental reults and now some are going URL only. I’ll keep you posted on whether this problem works itself out as Googlebot crawls my site more!
Take a look at this new keyboard. It’s a prototype called the Optimus. It uses OLED screens on each key to make it infinately customizable. You can make the keyboard display specific keys for any application.
Check it out at Gizmodo.
Take a look at this new keyboard. It’s a prototype called the Optimus. It uses OLED screens on each key to make it infinately customizable. You can make the keyboard display specific keys for any application.
Check it out at Gizmodo.
Never let it be said that I don’t give fair time to those who have differing opinions. In this C|Net article shows that at least one security expert at Microsoft thinks that writing down your passwords is a good thing because people know how to keep written documents secret. It’s an interesting theory, but I still stand by my opinion that you should not write down passwords.
You can read my opinion on the matter in Michael’s Guide to Choosing Passwords.