Is Bluetooth helping Brits meet each other and have sex? Apparently, according to WIRED, which reports on a new craze called ‘toothing’ (couldn’t they have come up with something sexier?). Toothing involves using the Bluetooth feature in a cellphone — used to transfer data between one Bluetooth device and another, without wires — to send… Read More »
The guys at InfoSpace tell me their Dogpile toolbar, mentioned a few weeks back, is now out. It will search the web, search white/yellow pages, block pop-ups (who doesn’t, these days?), run a customized ticker (which includes RSS feeds), and let you search for stuff just by right clicking your mouse. Needless to say, it… Read More »
Here’s another one of those tools that should have been around a long, long time ago (in fact one was but it went away: AltaVista Discovery. And don’t get me started on Enfish Tracker). It’s the desktop search engine that indexes your hard drive, the net, all that kind of stuff. Welcome to HotBot Desktop. HotBot’s… Read More »
Here’s a list of services and products that create documents in Adobe’s Acrobat “Portable Document Format” (PDF). (Much of this is drawn from Merle’s article on WebProNews) (This list will be expanded on and updated at loose wire cache, this blog’s more permanent library.) Software to convert files to PDF Software that creates PDF files from other… Read More »
Here’s something completely untech for a weekend posting. Via Metafilter: YourDictionary.com’s 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English. Some of my favourites (some of which should be phrases in their own right, though perhaps not for what they’re being used to describe): For all intensive purposes instead of For all intents and purposes… Read More »