Adobe Software Plagued with Bugs?
I’m starting to think that Steve Jobs is right, mostly about reliability, security and performance of Adobe products. Maybe I’m just following his lead, but for the money I’ve spent on their product » Continue reading “Adobe products are buggy. Bring on HTML 5!”
Since I enjoy the discussion of privacy, especially with regards to the internet, and have serious concerns about the number of large corporations which now track every single page view of internet users, this article by Daniel J. Solove regarding surveillance is really compelling.
It focuses on the claim of surveillance advocates, “If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear.” (P.S. Thanks to Bruce Schneier for the link.)
The argument goes like » Continue reading “Witty retort to “I’ve got nothing to hide””
Now he's watching every domain name I look up?
Google recently added a Public DNS service. For a good definition of DNS, check our new wiki. In short: DNS is how your computer figures out where a web server is located when you type in any web address by your computer, meaning: » Continue reading “Google’s Public DNS snaps up more of your browsing habits”
I had to write after reading this article in the New York Times. In short, Google “sees” 92 percent of online traffic for the top 100 internet sites. Other big boys, Atlas (60%), Omniture, and Quantcast (54% – I assume combined) don’t even get » Continue reading “Google sees 92% of “top” web traffic”
Market Ruler, LLC develops software for web marketers – and as such, I’m always on the lookout for new technologies to make life easier on the PPC and SEO crowd.
I recently took the SEOMoz toolset for a spin, and in one of their tests, I saw that they automatically checked the Google PageRank of a site. Since I’m the type who likes to see how this is done … » Continue reading “Automatically determining PageRank, or, unsigned integers in PHP”
We accumulate a lot of junk in life. And when I say we, I think I mean the “American People”, but what I really mean is: me.
My mother has perfected the art of accumulating things: She still resides in the house-I-grew-up-in (a 6 bedroom, 5 bathroom home) wherein each and every room is populated with » Continue reading “Being Safe with Craigslist Sales”
