If you aren’t a geek that pays attention to this sort of stuff, you might be only vaguely aware that Facebook has been all over the news recently as the roll out “enhancements” to the service. And by enhancement, they mean, “Stuff that will help Facebook’s customers sell even more stuff to you.” In no particular order… That stupid news ticker: I used...
read moreSo I’ve been using Horde as my webmail interface for 10 days now, and I must say, I really don’t have many complaints. It may not be as elegant or snazzy as Gmail, but it works just fine, and I know that the Googlebots are not reading my mail and instantly deciding what to sell me next. The mail interface on Horde is just fine. They do have an Ajax version, but they don’t have...
read moreAs part of the ongoing De-Googlization of my life, I’ve been investigating various options to share photos on the web. There are plenty of purpose built apps that will do that, some of them rivaling Flickr or Picasa in features. I was looking for something very simple, and finally settled on the web album export feature in gThumb. It produces a very clean and usable web photo album, exactly...
read moreSince I actually got a fair number of comments (by this blog’s standards anyway) on my Google is the next AOL post, I thought I’d update what I’ve actually been doing. The easiest thing to change was my default search engine. I’m using Duck Duck Go, and I have to say, I don’t miss Google at all for search. DDG has found a way to filter the splogs that clog up Google....
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