Looking for a new hosting service

I'm looking for a new hosting service. I've used softcomca (MyHosting.com) for years, but their prices are high for what they offer and I always have problems with their FP extensions being enabled on my site -- I don't want those darned extensions!!

Some alternatives

lunarpages
dreamhost

Both of these offer vastly more than my MyHosting.com site. Lunarpages allows one to install WAR files (ie. Blogject, Zope, etc)!

Searching on these two companies (a very sneaky technique -- if you ever want to find good reviews about a service or product, search on both the product and a competitor -- eliminates 99% of the junk and almost all ads) found this comment:

"LunarPages, DreamHost, iPowerWeb, and AvaHost"

So LunarPages and DreamHost are very well ranked, as are iPowerWeb and AvaHost.

Now when I search on the above I also see some interesting Google AdWords listings.

This doesn't look hard at all.

Update: I ended up with Lunarpages. I paid for a year in advance, but they have a 30 day MBG. They had the best description of their overall services and they were the only site to mention spam filtering options for email.

Site Studio: FrontPage LITE for OS X

Site Studio

Now this is innovative. It's a cross between a simple content management system and something like FrontPage. The application uses a variety of templates and forms to design an "web site". The site is a single XML document (looks like an OS X plist document). It can reference images and files. You click a button to generate HTML locally or to upload the HTML.

It could be used easily by schoolchildren or non-techies. There's a limited WYSIWYG editor for some web page work.

It reminds me a bit of all the creative site creation tools that came out on PCs in the 1990s. Most went away. A few mutated to become very high end tools, and FrontPage just mutated (period). This shareware tool harkens back to a lost era.

I'm not quite sure how I can use it, but I'll play with it for a while. Maybe I'll figure out a use. I don't think there's any way to use to import an existing web site.

Find a word based on a description of the underlying concept

OneLook Reverse Dictionary As we boomers age, we need to incorporate this thing into our cell phones.

jux2: Google is not what as good as it used to be

jux2 Search for special education faughnan

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Google has problems. JUX2 is a metasearch tool with a novel feature -- it shows what Google misses. Turns out, Google misses a LOT. In particular it's not indexing Blogger's blogspot very well.

I think there's a problem with Google.

Google's advanced search operators

Google Guide: Using Search Operators (Advanced Operators)

Review: iPod battery replacement, iPod repair services

Wired News: Pumping Up the Power of the IPod

A Wired Magazine report on iPod battery replacement for 1 & 2 G iPods. They also mention some repair services. Apparently the firewire connection in 1/2G iPods was badly designed and fails after > 1 year (out of warranty) of use. The repair is difficult. Interestingly one of my 3 replacement 3G iPods from Apple (AppleCare) had a bad firewire port -- you could charge it but not sync it.

VNC over SSH for OS X

macosxhints - Use an office Mac from a home Mac

Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems overly complex if you have ssh access to the gateway host, and just want to connect with VNC to an internal host.

Why not just use ssh port forwarding?

ssh -L 5901:192.168.1.2:5900 workfw

Then, just connect your vnc client to localhost/127.0.0.1 port 5901, and it will go through the ssh tunnel to the internal host (192.168.1.2).

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Sigh. I need to play with this. I still don't quite get it.