Content scraping is a big issue on today’s Internet, and a challenge for search engines to get it right. It basically comes down to the question of attribution. Who is the original author of a piece of content and on which website was it published first. Search engines get that right most of the time. [...]
Firmware… If it Isn’t Broken, Should You Fix it?
It’s an issue that polarises opinion and that splits people, those who even know about it anyway, straight down the middle. Should you update the OS or firmware on your device or hardware? Recently there has been considerable criticism levelled against Apple for problems the update to their latest version 5 of their iOS operating [...]
TED Downloader
I have covered TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, before here on Ghacks. TED is about sharing ideas on stage with an audience and on the Internet. When you look at the list of speakers, you will notice that it ranges from everyday people fighting for a cause to book authors and celebrities [...]
How To Disable Strict Add-On Compatibility In Firefox
One of the biggest issues that Firefox users have with the rapid release cycle introduced earlier this year is the fact that updates often disabled their add-ons in the browser due to incompatibilities. Most of the time though those incompatibilities can be attributed to the maximum compatible version number assigned to an add-on, and not [...]
Google Music In A Nutshell
Music in the cloud, that’s where the journey goes. At least if you trust Apple, Amazon and Google in this regard. All three companies have introduced a cloud hosting and streaming service for music in past months. You can get an overview of the core services here. Apple recently has added iTunes Match to iCloud [...]
Google Verbatim For Exact Search Results
When you search on Google you often get results that have nothing to do with your original search query. Take the search for Appel for instance. You probably would not expect sites about Apple in the search results. Google on the other hand thinks that is what the user is looking for and displays three [...]
Intel Announce Knight’s Corner, 22nm, 50 Cores
Fancy a processor with 1 teraflop of processing power in your PC? Intel have today unveiled their new Knight’s Corner chip that uses a 22nm build process to pack a huge 50 cores onto the die. This new (MIC) Many Integrated Core chip isn’t for playing Battlefield 3, frankly it would be wasted on that. [...]
Evernote Clearly, Distraction Free Reading On The Internet
One of the strengths of the Internet is that it is possible to pack a lot of information on a page. I’m talking about links, images and other media that can really add to the reading experience and information transfer. The biggest strength can however be a weakness as well, if the additional contents are [...]
KillSpinners, Stop Pages From Loading Forever
Have you ever been on a web page that would not stop loading? That would go on forever until you tapped on the ESC key to stop it? When you search on Google for “page loads forever” and comparable phrases you come up with thousands of pages filled with user reports about that problem. A [...]