Category Archives: computing

Firefox Extensions

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Stephen Moody

I figure that to truly establish my geek blogger creds I need to share a list of my favorite Firefox extensions. So, without further ado, here they are. (I made the list using the ListZilla extension.)

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A bit slow lately . . .

Posted on June 14, 2006 by Stephen Moody

I just noticed that it’s apparently been almost a week since I’ve posted here. My apologies if you’ve been trying to keep up with what I post here. Suffice it to say it’s been a busy week, and in addition … Continue reading →

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Dial with your iPod

Posted on June 1, 2006 by Stephen Moody

Here’s a cool idea: use an iPod (actually a number of different digital audio players would work) to generate a touch-tone signal and place a call over a standard analog line. This scheme can even store address book entries using … Continue reading →

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Artificial AI: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Posted on May 30, 2006 by Stephen Moody

This website is quite bizarre on first glance. It doesn’t do much better on second or third glance either, but it’s intended as a demonstration of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk online service, which offers an interesting model for humans to accomplish … Continue reading →

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25 Worst Tech Products

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Stephen Moody

PCWorld.com judges The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. It includes such awful products as RealPlayer, Windows Millennium, and Microsoft Bob, all well deserving of their places on the list. Pride of place, however, goes to AOL as the … Continue reading →

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Google Notebook

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Stephen Moody

Have you ever been browsing the web and come across a poem, article, anecdote, quotation, etc. you wanted to save to a central, searchable location instead of bookmarking the whole page or saving the info to a document file? Google’s … Continue reading →

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The spammers win this round . . .

Posted on May 17, 2006 by Stephen Moody

Blue Security, the anti-spam company I blogged about a while back, has closed its doors, fearing it was on the verge of starting a full-fledged internet war that it simply didn’t have the infrastructure to handle after seeing the collateral … Continue reading →

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Google ventures into 3D modeling

Posted on May 13, 2006 by Stephen Moody

If you’ve been paying attention to the news you’ve probably seen announcements for a couple of new Google products, including Google Trends. Another newly released product now making waves is Google SketchUp, a recently acquired 3D modeling suite that is … Continue reading →

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Amazon Prime free trial

Posted on May 7, 2006 by Stephen Moody

Amazon.com decided to give me a 4-month free trial to their ‘Amazon Prime’ service. Amazon Prime is a $79/yr subscription service in which members get free two-day shipping on all items with no order minimum (they discount overnight shipping pretty … Continue reading →

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New anti-spam tool

Posted on May 7, 2006 by Stephen Moody

A company called Blue Security has an intriguing new anti spam concept. It’s intended to provide active spam prevention rather than the passive blocking schemes I’ve usually seen. The idea is that they use their large (400k+) user base to … Continue reading →

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