With all this hoopla about Bing vs Google, you be your own judge. The web site(s) linked below allow you to perform a search query using both (Google and Bing) and reveals the output of both in a single browser window (should only be used for fixed location based searches - not from a mobile).

Blackdog.ie (has google on the left and bing on the right - also has more options across a top frame).

bingandgoogle.com (has bing on the left and google on the right)

The above information is directed more at your fixed location searching needs (using a laptop / desktop) rather than mobile needs (Iphone, Pre, Blackberry,etc). Based on my fixed location needs and the results of the searches I have performed based on my needs, I don’t see myself making the switch soon - so far.

On the mobile side of the house, I’m still on the fence.

See ya,
Chuck

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Me likes what I hear about the new Iphone 3G S
longer better life, more cpu and memory . Take this <14 minute guided video tour which is an excellent view into the new Iphone 3G S and the new 3.0 software due out June 17th… Four days before Father’s Day (Nice present for Dads and Dads-to-be!!!). Voice control, video.. how nice…

Iphone 3G S Guided Tour

In the new OS 3.0, I’m looking forward to these new features.. (on my existing 3G sans ‘S’ phone)..

Cut, Copy & Paste
MMS
Search
Voice Memo
Tethering
Stereo Bluetooth
Safari Improvements

Can’t wait to install and take for a test drive..

Chuck

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In my last post titled “This site may harm your computer..” I ranted about on my Saturday morning regarding my google search efforts which were all being flagged as harmful.

The BBC reports Google attributed the Saturday morning issue to human error. Go figure… Google gets their filter list from stopbadware.org and apparently they received it fine (assuming) and when they inserted the list this go round, all sites were incorrectly marked or flagged as malicious in some manner. Google’s VP of Search and User Experience admitted that tighter controls need to be wrapped around this manual process.. Hallelujah!

Reading further into this at the stopbadware.org blog it appears that Google does not use them for their filtering and its a home grown product. That makes more sense to me.. than what I read on the BBC page.

Finally, reading on Google’s Official blog it appears that the / was marked as malicious hence marking anything and everything else as malicious. Now we understand - taking the long way around the internet but oh well, at least I now know what made my surfing (and I’m sure a few of you other folks as well) a little rougher that Saturday morning. I’m at ease now.

Source: BBC

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Big brother becomes Oh brother!

The title of this post “This site may harm your computer” is what I’m seeing on all my google search results today (from different browsers on different machines) - doesn’t matter what I search for. When I click to visit google’s safe browsing site for more information/diagnostics I get a Google Server error page. Something’s up with Google’s Safebrowsing today. I checked my preferences and it doesn’t seem that I have an option, at the moment, to turn that off. I have all my filters removed but that still did me no good. This is quite an annoyance indeed.

Maybe Yahoo or another search engine had something to do with this or maybe someone at Google hit the evil button

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I had a family member in distress and they needed me to install some software for them but I was in a time crunch and could not visit them physically but I did have enough time to help them install the software remotely so I had been wanting to try a new solution (to using logmein) and TeamViewer was that solution today.

Before calling said family member (Merv), I went to the TeamViewer web site and downloaded the Full Client. I installed it on my mac - no issues. When you run the software you either hand out the codes (partner id and password) provided or a person provides you codes. I sent Merv a link to the file download section and he grabbed the full client as well (I sent him that one just in case he wanted to remote control other machines otherwise there is a ciient only version). Once installed and run, the client prompts you with a partner id and a password. He provided those to me over the phone but I imagine if we had been instant messaging it would have worked fine that way as well. So I plugged in those 2 values and voila, I saw his desktop.

I performed the software installs flawlessly on his machine - even rebooted and then reconnected afterwards ( if his TeamViewer client remained open and say I happened to lose connection and reconnect - I could use the same partner id and password, if the TeamViewer app closed on his side and re-opened, a new password was generated - which meant he’d have to provide that to me). Other than that, everything went flawless.

I see many options in the preferences that allow more customization to TeamViewer. One option is to delete any saved passwords on exiting of the app - I wonder if that would have made it so I could just use the same id and password throughout - something to play with later Other interesting options are blacklist/whitelist, custom options for networking, screen resolution, etc. This application worked nicely with both of us sitting on LANs using private address space (behind NATs).

Definitely worth a try if you provide support to anyone remotely or if you’re looking to share your desktop to a few folks (like giving presentations).

Link:
TeamViewer

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