Google’s New Search Engine

Thanks to a post by my friend Daryl, I’ve been looking at the improved Google search engine, codenamed Caffeine. Google has had a bunch of competition lately. Bing which is Microsoft’s new search engine recently launched, followed by an announcement that Yahoo will use Bing as its engine.

The current version of Google updates its index [...]

Gnome Terminal

Gnome terminal is probably one of the most under appreciated applications applications I use. Not a single day would go by where I don’t start an instance of Gnome Terminal. The same could also be said about Firefox except that I appreciate Firefox and recognise its usefulness. So here is the first of my posts on applications that I think deserve a much better [...]

Firefox Personas

Does anybody reading this remember Hotbar for IE 5 and 6? Remember how it came with dozens and dozens of adware and spyware apps. For anyone who doesn’t remember this was back when Bonzi Buddy spoke to us to distract you from the fact he was tracking everything you did online. When anybody who was [...]

The New Google Reader

This morning Google announced some new features for Google Reader. These features make Reader feel like a social networking website. I think Google is taking an interesting approach to social networking. They’re refitting all their existing products to include social features. It still feels a little separate though. There isn’t a feel of congruency across [...]

SSHmenu

This application I use almost as much as my terminal application. Also this application means that I now hardly ever type SSH any more. No more remembering my username on each host, remembering the options that host accepts and no more configuring each and every environment to update the xterm title to include the [...]