Archive for August 23rd, 2005

A couple of people are digging my hack

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

I have to admit that I have been completely ignorant about digg.com until larsinio dugg my google map hack.
I must say digg.com is so simple, yet clever and useful for finding interesting stuff on the internet. It is a true people choice of the internet.

Flickr automatic post

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

family

Originally uploaded by drasko.

This is a post from flickr of my family and me (I am the one standing up…). I just had to try to automatically post a message to this blog from Flickr.

P2P download are getting bigger

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

There is a file that caught my attention on the top 100 torrents at thepiratebay.org. It is one single torrent containing all episodes of The Simpsons seasons 1-15. If you get full download speed all the time on your 28.8 modem you will have to wait about 2 weeks. On the other hand, if you […]

Google IM up and running

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

There have been rumors about Google will start offering Instant Messaging as part of their Google Desktop 2. On the neowin.net board there is some speculation that Google will use a open source protocol called Jabber. Users of standards based IM clients have been trying to connect to talk.google.com and are recieving appropriate responses.

Google Desktop version 2 beta released

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

Google released Google Deskop 2 aka Google Sidebar late on August 22. The new version includes a bar with small customizable information windows displaying photos, news or custom information. There are developer tools for download. Oddly enough there is no built-in support for rss feeds.
There are plenty of plugins to download.