Well, our school doesn’t let us download and use software from school, and I can’t run perl scripts from these computers, sooo…I’ve discovered the great world of web SSH clients.
The best one I’ve found is this one. Just thought I’d share this with you.
I’ve recently discovered a “campaign” to promote Firefox, the most popular open source browser. It is ran by “four politically-oriented friends who care about open source software coming out on top.” I like what they are about, and also like the idea. 
Here’s thier link:
Here it is: http://www.google.com/ig
Something I just discovered. Seems awfully like what I did try out with Yahoo a long time ago (5 years+, so some of these might not apply anymore).
I didn’t like what Yahoo! had. It was not easy to customize. I had to go through many page loads to make some changes, and took me at least half an hour to make it what I wanted it to be like.
Now, with Google’s personalized home, you can change things by clicking the “Add Content” button on the top left corner, add new content, and organize them by dragging them around. You can change the options in the same page by clicking edit, make your changes, then go out of edit mode. No/minimal loading, and very easy and fast. And, I think it looks cleaner than Yahoo’s page.
Well, I think it is worth a try, and I’ll be using it for a while.
Well, WebKit, which is essentially what Safari is, is now open source, and the newest version is the first to pass the Acid2 test!
Anyways, I find it pretty good, now that it complies to most likely all the web standards, I’ve switched back from Camino to Safari/WebKit.
You can find info on WebKit here.
Get WebKit the easy way, using NightShift. It installs WebKit for you, updates to the most recent nightly build for you if you want to, and offers you the option to revert to a previous version if the new one is too buggy, all without touching Safari.
It’s pretty good if you ask me. I’ll report back if there are any problems.
Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless
Here’s the rage of the internet right now. The blog of a company that switched from Wintel to Macs, including a Wintel bigot that now “sees the light”.
I find the posts interesting, and worth reading. The posts are not really biased in any way, other than the guy being pissed at Windows, causing the switch.
Oh, and, man, it feels good when a previous Win-bigot begins to see that he was wrong.
Macworld: News: Google intros Q&A service
“…Google Q&A is strong in areas such as geography, information about famous people and physical facts, such as the size of planets…”
Well, seems pretty cool, since it adds to the features like define in Google search. I would like to see it mature and make use of it.
I guess Google is just trying to match the wikipedia search ability of Yahoo search.
Well, many things are still not displayed. Like I tried “How old is Steve Jobs” and also for Bill Gates, but both had no results shown. I’d wait for the feature to grow over time, then come back and use it as it gets better.
EDIT: well, just found this on the Google Weblog.
Ah hah! My predictions are correct! GMail is becoming “bottomless”! Well, that’s good news for everyone.
Oh, and Google Maps now has satellite imagery. It’s pretty cool. Yeah, nothing new, but when it is something from everyone’s favorite brand name, all their beta products are something to rave about. Right? Yup.
Yay, I finally got a domain. Well, two actually. One is for my mom, and the other is this one. Let’s see what I’ll do with it. Maybe I’ll now have an excuse to do more web stuff.