Posted on November 26, 2004 8:53 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
I tried Google’s desktop search utility for a couple weeks, then uninstalled it. I could seach within specific folders or do a lot of the other customization I can do with X1. I should have figured that if Google wouldn’t enhance its search utility, somebody else would. According to Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch, a piece of donationware software called gdSuite…
Posted on November 26, 2004 8:14 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
Believe it or not, Bittorent accounts for about 35% of all Internet traffic. The free technology makes it possible to share large video files quickly by engaging all the various people who obtain the file in the process of distributing it. Anybody who has ever retrieved a large media file using Bittorrent will attest to the remarkable speed with which…
Posted on November 22, 2004 1:21 pm by Shel Holtz | Technology
Glenn Fleishman, who authors WiFi Networking News, along with his own blog, GlennLog, decided to see how much impact his RSS feeds were having on his server’s bandwidth. The results may surprise you.
Posted on November 22, 2004 9:19 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
If you use an instant messaging client, give IMSmarter a try…assuming your company firewall lets you set up a proxy. Adding no software to your computer, IMSmarter logs your IM conversations so you can refer back to them later. Coder David Weekly gives this example of IMSmarter’s value in an Engadget interview:
It?s 4pm; you?re at work and you remember you were going to…
Posted on November 22, 2004 9:00 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
You know RSS is gaining steam when companies begin developing products to optimize it. That’s what KnowHow has done, according to an interview on CRN with the company’s CEO.
We put in an RSS solution for ING, one of the largest banks in Europe, that allows them to utilize, manage and control RSS within their corporation…They…have news feeds they wanted to distribute to employees through…
Posted on November 22, 2004 8:49 am by Shel Holtz | Technology
That didn’t take long. Advertising through RSS is a brand-spanking-new idea, and already opponents are coming up with software that will strip the ads from your feeds. According to PaidContent.org, several more are in the works. The one that’s already available, RS3, does more than just strip out ad banners and other “junk.” It’s more of an effort to take the next step in making news…
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