Yes, it’s been a while, but between the holiday bustle and a nasty head cold, I haven’t been extremely chatty as of late. In any case, the end of the year brings with it certain things that need done, and the changing of the calendar is a good time as any. Maybe these will help [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Internet’
End of 2009 tasks
Posted: 29th December 2009 by Craig Rettig in LifeTags: Computers, Hardware, Internet, Life
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Using Startpage to maximize your search privacy
Posted: 11th December 2009 by Craig Rettig in InternetTags: Internet
Some stink is being made about Google’s retention and tracking of search data. A director at Mozilla has even claimed that Microsoft has better privacy practices, and he recommends users change their default web search to Bing. Allow me to introduce Startpage: Startpage claims no retention of user search data, and you have the option [...]
Call me old, but I still love Lynx
Posted: 7th December 2009 by Craig Rettig in ComputersTags: Computers, Internet, Software
Back in the days before GUI operating systems, the web was a completely different animal. Relying on text-only presentation, the king of Internet browsing was a program called Lynx. Of course, back in those days, you had 9600 baud modems, unless you were a bleeding-edge person with a whopping 28.8 kbps one. However, even in [...]
Free Software I Love – 2009 Edition
Posted: 2nd December 2009 by Craig Rettig in ComputersTags: Computers, Internet, Software
I’d given a list of freeware I like several years ago, and while several are repeated, there are some new ones to add to the mix. So without further adieu, here’s my list for 2009:
A celebration of YouTube
Posted: 2nd October 2009 by Craig Rettig in InternetTags: Entertainment, Internet, Movies
Just in case you live under a rock and haven’t experienced the joyous time-waster known as YouTube, here are snips from the purported “100 Greatest Hits of YouTube” presented in a four-minute movie. There is a list of the represented videos on the YouTube page, but you can watch it here:
Brizzly – A more functional Twitter
Posted: 30th September 2009 by Craig Rettig in InternetTags: Internet, Twitter
If you’ve ever wished Twitter had some more features, and don’t want to be installing one of the many desktop clients to every computer you use, you might want to give Brizzly a look. While it maintains all of the original functionality of the main Twitter site, Brizzly goes above and beyond by adding features [...]
SomaFM – My new love
Posted: 26th September 2009 by Craig Rettig in EntertainmentTags: Entertainment, Internet, Music
While SomaFM has been around for a while, I never gave it a serious listen until this week, and I must say I’m now hooked, especially on the Secret Agent station. The majority of SomaFM’s stations contain ambient music with little to no lyrics, which makes them perfect for working on the computer, since lyrics [...]
Twitter’s new ‘More’ button — an opinion
Posted: 19th March 2009 by Craig Rettig in InternetTags: Internet, Reviews, Twitter
Apologies to Fail Blog.
A Quick Look at PaperBackSwap
Posted: 6th August 2008 by Craig Rettig in InternetTags: Books, Internet, Reading
Are you also an avid reader? Lately, I’ve been picking up good number of books using PaperBackSwap. PaperBackSwap is a free online book exchange service. Essentially, for every book you send to someone, you get a book in return. If you send your books out via Media Mail or Parcel Post, this usually comes out [...]