Yahoo search: my new search engine

Yahoo Search example

Yahoo search is replacing Google on my pages. I can constrain search across multiple domains (as in this example that searches faughnan.com and jfaughnan.blogspot.com) and Yahoo's indices cover my stuff far better than Google's.

I was a very early Google adopter -- the first user at a cutting edge dot com startup when Google was a complete unknown. Now I'm moving on. Google may be heading for a spot of trouble.

Yahoo vs. Google: Yahoo is winning

Google

Yahoo indexes my google hosted blogs (blogspot/blogger) quite well. Google's search fails completely.

Weird.

World Computer Exchange

World Computer Exchange

Donate selected computers. I've got a few to go here.

PS. Blogger was thrashed today -- status.blogger.com has an extensive apology. They've been staggering for weeks.

iPod Technoporn -- iPod lounge buyer's guide

iPodlounge | All Things iPod

As promised several weeks ago, iPodlounge is proud to announce the immediate availability of the iPodlounge Buyers’ Guide 2004 for free download from the links and locations below. It contains the world's first review of Apple's new iPod Photo.

For the unfamiliar, iPodlounge's Buyers’ Guide is a complete, magazine-style guide to everything iPod and iPodlounge, with trustworthy previews and reviews of the very best iPod accessories, guides to getting free iPod software and support, and much, much more. We've designed the Guide so you can print only the pages you want, and give them to your family and friends as very specific holiday "gimme iPod" reminders.

By reader demand, the Guide contains a complete report card of the over 200 iPod-related products that have been reviewed by iPodlounge, and features the incredible art and photography of iPodlounge readers from around the world.

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Gizmodo loves it.

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 Release Notes

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 Release Notes

I'll try this one.

OS X Tiger: VoiceOver

MacOSX v10.4 Tiger: Developer Overview

The Universal Access capabilities of Mac OS X are enhanced in Tiger to include VoiceOver, a new spoken interface. Designed for those with visual and learning disabilities, it reads aloud the contents of documents such as web pages, Mail messages, and word processing files. As an integrated part of Tiger, Apple is providing a set of programming guidelines so that you will be able to make sure that your application can deliver the best VoiceOver experience.

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How hard will it be to develop applications for children with reading disorders? Awesome.

OSX v10.4 Tiger: Core Data

MacOSX v10.4 Tiger: Developer Overview

Core Data gives you the ability to create a description of your data objects. Once defined, Core Data handles most of the heavy work of managing your data objects, both in-memory and on-disk. This allows you to focus on application logic and avoid the infrastructure work. In short, Core Data is a model-driven object management graph and persistence framework....

In Tiger, Core Data will support three different kinds of files for storage of data:

* A text-based XML file format
* A better performing binary file format
* A high-performance, SQLite-based database file format

Each of these file formats has its strengths. The XML file format is a good choice during the development of an application as it allows you to peek inside the file and see what is going on. The SQLite format will often be the best choice for desktop applications because of its performance characteristics.

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I wonder if thi s is the database used by the Spotlight metadata engine. If this datbase were to be used by iPhoto and iTunes ...

An OS supplied set of object-SQL services. Big.

Sigh. Apple is good at marketing to geeks. I'm ready to send them money now ...