Programs, Software, and Computer Info

Food info can be found at TECH TIME: The Google Gourmet.

For music, try musicplasma or Singingfish. For background info on different file types and how they interact with CD players, try here.

If you're into languages, the Logos Universal Conjugator is a very, very cool verb conjugator and miscellaneous translation-options tool. Wow.

Microsoft info, in no particular order:
security holes: one horror story after another.
If you'd like to get the status bar in IE to STAY PUT, try this.
Groklaw's investigation into how MSN search works - paid listings vs. non-paid (there aren't any non-paid, apparently).

Trend Micro - Free online virus Scan
Haven't tried this yet - kind of a neat idea.

Joel on Software - Painless Software Schedules
Article about using Excel (well, any basic spreadsheet, really) for scheduling.

Incamail Aims at ISPs With Free DEA Offering
Article about Incamail - a program which lets you manage multiple disposable email addresses from one interface. A very cool idea, if it works (haven't tried it yet).

Main Page - Wikipedia An open content encyclopedia.

To the surprise of probably no one, I've been getting increasingly interested in search. This means that friends, my parents, and people I barely know amuse themselves by sending me links to more or less relevant news articles. By way of cleaning out my Saved Mail folder, my favorites are posted here.

Privacy and web-based email: Gmail Requires The Least Personal Info.

E-Commerce News: Google's Gotcha Moment
Google Deskbar review - fun if you're not a Microsoft fan.

AllReaders.com Home Page Not sure yet what I might use this for. But being able to search for a book based on themes/character/etc. is an interesting idea - sounds vaguely similar to the canned scripts that new romance-novel authors often write from.

About Google's Eric Schmidt :: AO An interesting interview with Eric Schmidt re: relativity of information, specialized societies, and the anthropologial study of Internet groups (to give it my ex-archaeologist's take).

K-Praxis - Kaltix + Outride + Google: PageRank on Steroids New search ideas, plus brief summary of Google's purchase of Kaltix and Outride.

Welcome to the Mercury News on Bayarea.com
An interview with Sun. Interesting points - would love to see Linux get more of a foothold. What the article *doesn't* mention is whether the $50 competitor of Micorosoft office would be available to regular retail people, rather than just businesses (come on, somebody, make it possible for me to switch to Linux on my home system!)

Business 2.0 - Web Article - Printable Version - Google: The Reverse eBay
A pretty standard article about search, advertising, etc. This one's great because it makes a solid case for not targeting ads/search results/etc. based on a user's profile data. After all, for search-based advertising, the user's already telling you what they want. Invading their privacy would therefore be detrimental to quality. Finally: the right take on this!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/09/BUGMD4RAMA1.DTL
Article re: social networking sites. Includes a list.

Listado de sites que tienen Page Rank 10 de Google.
A list of 'the only 33' sites that have a Google PageRank of 10. The things people make lists of. . . . [page is in Spanish, but the list isn't].

OJR article: Industry Standard Is Latest Dot.Com-Era Publication to Try a Comeback

Google Guide: Why Take this Tutorial?
Google Guide (not by Google, but supposedly really great.) I actually haven't read this yet, but I will. Soon. Very soon.

The Anatomy of a Search Engine
Background info on Google's original architecture.

News
Another Google/Microsoft story. Just keep finding better ones.