RSS Alerts to your Instant Messenger with Feed Crier

Interesting new service has launched called Feed Crier. It is an IM bot that delivers real-time RSS feed updates to your desktop over popular instant messaging protocols. For end users, no account creation is necessary –just send a message to the bot containing a feed URL and start getting feed alerts. Basic services are free, [...]

Essential email filters

You may not use them all, but there are some great ideas for email filters here:
I receive hundreds of email messages a day, but only a couple dozen actually make it into my inbox. Thanks to the automated power of full-strength email filters, just the messsages that are important enough to deal with catch my [...]

Google, Yahoo, & MSN Search Engine Algorithms

Search engines have different algorithms to determine search results. New research from Fortune Interactive explains some of the logic behind these Web page rankings.
Google’s algorithm:
At Google, inbound links rank in the following order: quality, relevance, title keyword, anchor keyword, quantity. Further down the list, site factors such as title keyword, anchor keyword, body keyword, [...]

Technology Cheat Sheets

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Windows XP 15 Minute Tune-Up

Don’t throw out that sluggish PC. Give it a tune-up!
A fine-tuned Windows XP PC can run quite fast even it’s seriously lacking in the memory and CPU department. Before you chuck out your PC to buy a new one, try stripping some of the rust that’s built-up over the years; the results may surprise you.
It’s [...]

USB Stick Portable Apps

Take your most important apps around on a USB stick. Most of these are available from http://portableapps.com. Here are the ones I use.

OpenOffice – Office Suite and line-art design tools
FireZilla – FTP
Nvu – Web page editor
Firefox – Web browser
LockNote – Encrypt a text file (to store passwords, etc.)
PSPad – Text Editor
PStart – App Launcher
Gimp – [...]

Easy file sharing with iDisk

Apple has made it really easy for you to share files with colleagues if you are a .Mac subscriber. Your .mac Public folder can be accessed easily via any web browser. Simply entering the URL http://idisk.mac.com/membername-Public now produces a page that automatically includes download links for whatever is currently in your public [...]

Mac OS X: How to secure an external hard drive.

Apple’s FileVault is great if you want or need to secure your entire home folder. Unfortunately, FileVault does not encrypt your data on a second hard-drive or a removable drive. If, like me, you use an external portable firewire hard-drive when traveling, you can you Apple’s Disk Image Encryption to securely encrypt [...]

OS/X Shortcuts - My Favorite Apple Short-Cut Keys

Here are my favorite shortcut keys for OS/X.

F9: brings up expose
F11: shows the desktop

Control-Eject: evokes the shutdown window

Option+Command+Eject: sleep (no confirmation dialog)
Command+Control+Eject: restarts (no confirmation dialog)
Control + Option + Command + Eject: shut down (no confirmation dialog)

Command+Option+Shift+Q: Log-out current user

Command-W: Closes current window
Command-H: hides current window

Command-Q: quits the current application
Command-Tab followed by Q: [...]

A brief look into P2P BitTorrent networks

As part of the research for a new product, I took a look at some existing P2P networks, specifically those networks using the BitTorrent technology. The entry below will provide you with a basic understanding of what you need in order to access and use existing P2P BitTorrent networks.

Safeguarding the test system

Before [...]

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