I’d been hearing alot about bing and decided to give it a look, first glance it comes across as looking pretty, seems quick enough and has a simple layout. Sound familiar? Sound like the current search engine heavy-weight Google? I’ve often found it strange and amazing at the same time how well and how quickly [...]
Archive for October, 2009
bing: next big thing or next big flop?
Posted: 25th October 2009 by tcg in UncategorizedTags: bing, google, microsoft, search engine
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EtherPad: collaborative writing made easy
Posted: 22nd October 2009 by tcg in organization, softwareTags: collaborative, etherpad, free, word processing
I stumbled upon a very interesting service the other day, EtherPad , and was so impressed with it, i thought it deserved a little more attention, or as much as my little blog can bring anyway. It is basically a web-based collaborative word processor, that is so simple to use and convenient that i’m not [...]
GoogleUpdaterInstaller: a consistently annoying popup
Posted: 7th October 2009 by tcg in Mac OSXTags: allow popup, google, googleupdaterinstaller, Mac OSX
Shortly after i installed the latest Mac OSX Snow Leopard updates i started getting an extremely annoying popup asking me to authorize googleupdaterinstaller. I did it once, thinking okay, new program loaded or something was updated, no big deal it happens. Thinking that was the end of it, i was surprised a while later to [...]
iPhones from Bell. Will it make a difference?
Posted: 6th October 2009 by tcg in Apple, hardwareTags: bell, iphone, Rogers
So you probably have already heard the latest about Bell announcing they will be selling the iPhones as early as this November. The news originally came out they COULD support the iphones once their network is upgraded to the HSPA network which is underway, but now it seems they are saying they WILL be selling iPhones [...]