Adobe, Stop Killing My Internets!
I am not sure if it just me, but lately it seems that Adobe Flash Player is becoming more and more unreliable, and causing my web browser (be it Chrome, FireFox and/or I.E. — I prefer Chrome, although I wish it supported ICC profiles like FireFox) to constantly crash.
Loading …As Adobe Flash is widely used it, unfortunately, is not practical to completely remove it from your machine; however there are a few simple tools which let you automatically block Flash from loading unless you white-list the site or click on the flash to play it. This technique is also great for preventing those annoying Flash ads that popup in your face (Although some of them do look pretty cool)!
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tim.bellette.net is now compatible with the iPhone, iPod Touch, Google Android and Blackberry Storm. If you visit the site from any of the aforementioned devices it will automatically detected that you are connecting from said device and display a mobile friendly version.
New Kid Coming To The Block: Powerset
Powerset Inc, a Silicon Valley company, is developing a new type of search engine which does not function based on the typical Google, Yahoo or Microsoft technique of keywords. Rather it is a natural language search engine, which uses a natural language processing techniques to “read and understand every sentence on the Web”.
Although the company has not released the search engine for use, for public or private testing, they have a Powerset Labs section on their site where invited users can provide feedback on the design of the search engine. Users are also given a peek at technology demonstrations that show off the search engine’s capabilities, which currently for the labs purposes has only indexed Wikipedia pages. At least, that is what they are saying on their blog. You can sign up for the labs at http://labs.powerset.com/, however there is no guarantee that you will get an invite.
There does appear to be a few problems with the site, such as the labs login and extended sign up pages timing out, but I guess these things are expected with a start-up. Especially a start-up which is gathering more and more recognition — Powerset recently presented at TechCrunch40. A video of Powerset presenting at the TechCrunch40 2007 conference can be seen on the TechCrunch20 site.
