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+In my [review of Google's Customized Search][2] feature the other day I mentioned in passing that it'd be nice to have access to such functionality from the Google search field in Safari's toolbar. Last night I stumbled across a Safari add-on called [Acid Search][1] which allows you to do just that.

Just download and install Acid Search and the next time you restart Safari you'll have a customizable search menu in your toolbar.

Acid Search comes with a whole boatload of predefined search customizations, which it calls "search channels" and allows you to add your own. It's a handy way to switch between searching Google, Technorati, del.icio.us and any other site you want to add. Even better, you can add prefix and suffix terms to your urls. For instance if you'd like to search Google but add the suffix string that [GMBMG][3] adds you can create and search with the normal Google search URL and then add GMBMG's <code>-inurl</code> terms in the suffix field (just make sure you use the URL encoded string).

Acid Search also allows you to assign each custom search channel a keyboard shortcut so it's simple to switch between your various search engines.

If you're aware of similar functionality for Firefox or IE let me know in the comments.

[1]: http://www.pozytron.com/?acidsearch "Acid Search"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/google_announce_1.html
[3]: http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/ "Give Me Back My Google"
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+Del.icio.us is the social bookmarking site that started the whole trend and it remains one of the most popular. Thanks to its handy search and sharing features, del.icio.us is also an interesting site to explore even if you don't use it.


####How it Works

The process of saving a bookmark is simple. Just drag del.icio.us' bookmarklets to your browser toolbar and, whenever you're on a site you want to bookmark, click the button and it will be automatically added to your del.icio.us account. The bookmarklet will take you to the "post" page on del.icio.us where you can then fill any additional information you want to add such as a description, notes, tags and privacy setting.

By default del.icio.us sets all your bookmarks to public which means anyone can see what you've bookmarked. If you'd like to make them private you need to check the "do not share" box when you create a new bookmark. Del.icio.us also auto-suggests tags that might fit your bookmark which can save you some typing.

Once you've saved your bookmark, del.icio.us will return you to the page you were viewing.

The whole process is actually much simpler than it may sound; it takes far more time to describe it than to actually do it.


####Give the People What They Want

Once your bookmarks are in del.icio.us you can share them in a variety of ways. There's a search feature that pulls in results from everyone's bookmarks including yours. And you can also search just your bookmarks to find that lost site you've been looking for.

Del.icio.us also allows you to share your bookmarks with designated people through a feature called "your network." To add people to your network you just enter their screenname, and viola! their (public) bookmarks will be added to your "network" page. 

Your network is useful for sharing with friends, family and coworkers, but if you want to see everyone's bookmarks, tags are the way to go. To do this you can use the subscriptions feature. Subscriptions can be by tag, person or both. In other words you can limit a subscription to just Uncle Albert's bookmarks tagged "deer trophies" or you could subscribe to all bookmarks tagged "deer trophies" and so on.

It's also possible to designate individual bookmarks for other del.icio.us users. When you save a new bookmark if you add a for:username tag to it, they will see your bookmark under the "for you" link the next time they log in. This sharing feature works for both public and private bookmarks

Nearly every page in del.icio.us has an RSS feed of some sort, whether it' by tag, user, your network or your subscriptions you can always stay up-to-date via your RSS reader. There's also a nice backend API if you'd like to access your account directly with outside programs.


####Personal Gripes

I may be overly anal or perhaps just old-fashioned, but I rather like putting my bookmarks in folders. I suppose you could argue that tags are a kind of folder, at least on the metaphorical level, but tags are really the only organizational tool del.icio.us offers. The newly redesigned Yahoo Bookmarks has folders though, and since Yahoo owns del.icio.us it's possible this feature could find it's way to del.icio.us at some point.

Many people complain about del.icio.us' rather primitive interface, other people love the minimalist look, you'll have to decide for yourself, but in terms of functionality, del.icio.us has been, and continues to be, one of the sites to beat.

####The Low Down

**Pros**

*	Simple and easy to use
*	Good sharing features
*	Nice backend API


**Cons**

*	Not enough organizational options
*	No screen captures (The bookmarks on the main page have them, but individual pages don't)
*	Bookmarked pages aren't cached
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+Here's a tip for you torrent junkies out there: [FullTorrent][1] is a torrent search engine that returns results for multiple torrent trackers all in one handy spot.

One of the annoying things about torrents is that the trackers are often spread all across the web making it time consuming to search each site individually. FullTorrent makes it easy to search over half a dozen such trackers in one spot. And if FullTorrent doesn't currently search your favorite tracker, you can send them a note asking them to add it.

FullTorrent also allows you to set the timeout limit for your search to avoid long page loads for those sites that respond slowly. 

The one downside to FullTorrent is it doesn't take you straight to the actual torrent, but dumps you on the hosting page for whatever site is tracking that torrent. While this is slightly annoying, it's still better than searching each site individually.

And please, there are a lot of perfectly legal torrents, let's limit ourselves to those, mmmkay?

[1]: http://www.fulltorrent.net/ "Fulltorrent.net"
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+*	Myspace founder Brad Greenspan has acquired the majority stake in [Flurl][1].

*	[Youtube][2] has undergone a partial redesign. While the homepage remains unchanged, other sections are a bit more colorful with "channels" and "groups" now under colored headers.

*	Apple [announced a new AJAX webmail interface][3] for its .Mac members complete with drag-and-drop, keyboard shortcuts and more. Welcome to the 21st century Apple.

*	The Google blog is announcing a [new Google Alert for blogs][4]. Type in your search params and Google Alert will send you an email whenever there's a new post that fits your search.






[1]: http://www.flurl.com/ "Flurl.com"
[2]: http://www.youtube.com/index "YouTube.com"
[3]: http://www.mac.com/web/en/Tips/825D5958-DE09-499C-94A5-6FC8839DA398.html ".Mac webmail update"
[4]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/on-alert-for-bloggers.html "Google Alerts"
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+Today and continuing into next week I'll be taking a look at various social bookmarking sites out there. I'm familiar with [del.icio.us][1] and [ma.gnolia][2] since I use both of them and I'll also be looking at [Wink][3] and [StumbleUpon][4], but what other sites are people using?

I think we'll probably limit this specifically to sites that let you share bookmarks with other people. Services like Yahoo's Bookmarks and Google Bookmarks are more *storage* sites than *sharing* sites, but I'm sure there are other bookmark sharing sites out there that I don't know about so here's your chance to educate me.

And while we're at it, can anyone explain why social bookmarking sites like to put dots in their name?

[Note that our comments feature strips out html so just type the address in directly and it'll show up.]


[1]: http://del.icio.us/ "del.icio.us"
[2]: http://ma.gnolia.com/ "Ma.gnolia"
[3]: http://wink.com/ "Wink.com"
[4]: http://www.stumbleupon.com/ "StumpleUpon"
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+A new version of [Ubuntu Linux has been released][2]. This brings the popular distro to version 6.10 and adds several welcome new features.

Ubuntu now ships with Firefox 2.0 installed as well as version 2.8 of the Evolution mail client. Ubuntu 6.1 also features F-Spot, a nice looking photo organizer that can upload to many popular photo sharing sites including Flickr. Also included is the very handy Tomboy, a wiki-style note taking tool. For full details see the [6.1 release notes][1].

The new version promises faster boot times and features a new optimized kernal and GNOME 2.16.

I've been playing around with running various Linux distributions under Parallels on my MacBook and I can definitely say if you've never used Linux before, Ubuntu is a great place to start.

Disk images and torrent files can be downloaded from [the Ubuntu site][3].



[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyReleaseNotes "New Ubuntu Released"
[2]: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/610released "Release Announcement for Ubuntu 6.10"
[3]: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu/download?action=show&redirect=download "Download Ubuntu 6.10"
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+Fanpop is the latest entry into the world of social network sites, but with a twist. Fanpop aims to be a place where people can swap links and share sites based on common interests. Oh yeah, communities based on what you link to, think deli.ci.ous meets MySpace and feel the nerdy goodness.

Fanpop's concept is simple. Browse links by category. When you find a link that piques your interest, click it and you will be taken to that site. Fanpop leaves a simple, unobtrusive toolbar across the top of your browser window and the external page is in a frame -- very similar to the results from a Google image search. The Fanpop toolbar enables you to jump back to Fanpop to rate or comment on the link and of course you can close the frame and leave Fanpop behind.

Fanpop is built around the concept of "spots" which is really just a poor name for groups. Like groups on say flickr.com, you can join whatever Fanpop "spots" you like and contribute links to a community of like-minded users. All groups have rss feeds you can subscribe to.

Fanpop is an interesting concept, I'm not sure how much the social networking aspect will appeal to people but it seems to me there is a need for some kind of human-filtered means of searching the web. Who wouldn't like to have Google results rated by quality rather than simple page rankings (which admittedly aren't simple)? And what if that quality rating came from people you knew you could trust? 

Fanpop is sort of a halfway point, it searches its user posted listings which more than likely came from searching something else. I'd like Fanpop a whole lot more if it limited itself to essentially providing Google-like search results with user ratings... Perhaps there is something like that out there, anyone care to educate me?
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+Good morning, here's today's reboot:

*	Google added links to [Google Blog Search][1] on the front page of [Google News][2] this weekend, a quiet reminder that they haven't forgotten about the underused Blog Search service.

*	[YouTube wiped nearly 30,000 files][3] from its website this weekend after copyright complaints from Japanese media companies.

*	Tomorrow will see the release of the official version of Firefox 2.0 but it appears the new version is [already on the Mozilla foundation's FTP servers][4].

*	Regretting those pics from last year's Christmas party that linger on flickr.com? A newly-launched service, [Reputation Defender][5], can help you monitor and erase such info. And if the site in question won't remove the content, Reputation Defender can set the lawyers on them.

*	It's that time of year: Google Earth adds U.S. election guide. The new overlays include information with candidate names, parties and links to register to vote. [[Lifehacker]][6]

[1]: http://blogsearch.google.com/ "Google Blog Search"
[2]: http://news.google.com/ "Google News"
[3]: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061020-8038.html "Google removes Video files"
[4]: http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/4242/44/ "Firefox 2.0"
[5]: https://www.reputationdefender.com/
[6]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/google-earth/google-earth-adds-us-election-guide-209430.php "Google Earth Adds Election Guide"
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+Mymemorizer.com is a new service from Sweden offering a web-based calendar app with SMS and Email reminders. Sign up for a free account, add your events via the javascript interface and the site will send you either email or Text/SMS messages to your mobile phone. 

The free component cuts off at three message reminders per day. It's possible to buy more, but I was unable to find a price list. Also note that your mobile service provider may charge you for incoming SMS messages depending on your service plan.

The javascript heavy interface may put some people off, but the demo was responsive and easy to use when I tested it. It's not the most attractive interface, but the functionality is impressive.

The SMS test widget that mymemorizer provides worked fine on my phone (cingular) your milage may vary.
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+Planning a trip this fall? As someone who's traveled a fair bit in the last year I have a kind of fetish for travel sites. Recently I stumbled across [Realtravel][1] which Forbes magazine calls one of the "essential travel sites" of the internet.

Realtravel is not aimed at finding airfares or buying tickets online, though it does have some links and price listings, instead Realtravel's main focus is on user stories, tips and reviews. 

Realtravel offers far too many things to cover in a short post, but my favorite section is the destinations tab. Under destinations you'll get a map with the world broken into regions for easy browsing, or you can pick a country from the "most blogged" list. Once you select a country you'll be taken to that country's page which has a wealth of information ranging from dining reviews to travel ideas and everything in between. From there you can continue to tunnel in a get more detailed information by city. 

What makes Realtravel worthwhile for travelers is their user-generated content. Anyone can buy a guidebook, but do you know how long it takes for a guidebook to get printed and onto the shelf? Most guidebooks are hopelessly outdated before they even get into your hands. Realtravel and other sites like it are invaluable for their up-to-the-minute stories, reviews and trip suggestions from travelers who've just been in, and in some cases, currently are in, the places you're headed for. 

I wish I could say Realtravel has a great interface for creating your own travel blog and contributing to the community, but unfortunately the sign up process is somewhat long and more convoluted than seems necessary and once you have an account set up the process of posting to it is fairly arduous as well. Still if you're willing to jump through the hoops, you can get a free blog, picture uploads, and more.


[1]: http://realtravel.com/ "Real Travel"
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+<p>Reputationdefender.com is a new site with a novel aim &mdash; cleaning up your online reputation. It's becoming increasing common for companies to screen potential employees for offensive blog posts, embarrassing MySpace profiles, and damaging photos trawled up with a simple Google search. Yes, it seems we've reached the point where policing your internet reputation might be a viable business model.</p>

<p>Reputation Defender claims they will monitor sites like MySpace, Facebook, Xenga, Bebo, Flickr, LiveJournal and a whole host of others for any material that might be damaging to you. If they do find something they will, on your behalf, ask the site owner to remove it. Should the site owner refuse, Reputation Defender will "use our array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web."</p>

<p>Reputation Defender is a paid service with rates starting at $15.95 a month for six months. </p>

<p>The site also offers two other related services they call "mychild" and "myprivacy." My child searches and collects information on your child and provides a monthly report. Setting aside the vaguely Orwellian feeling that gives me, I can see where, with the recently announced number of registered sex offenders on MySpace, this would be an attract service for many parents.</p>

<p>The "my privacy" feature is not yet available but promises to do something about the massive number of companies that buy and sell personal information, much of which is often inaccurate. This sounds like something I'd actually want.</p>

<p>The site didn't have an answer to the first question that popped in my mind &mdash; what about duplicate names? For instance there is a Scott Gilbertson serving time in prison in Michigan for something or other, how will Reputation Defender know that's not me?</p>

<p>Another thing I haven't been able to sort out from browsing the site is the exact legal status of the "destroy" component of Reputation Defender. After all, just because you're applying for a job, why does that mean I have to take down those pics from the Animal House-style Halloween Party of 2002? And if I refuse is there any legal ground to compel me to take them down? The user agreement on the site says, "[Reputation Defender] does not guarantee or warrant that it will be successful in effecting removal or alteration," which seems to imply that there may not be a legal way to force content removal.</p>

<p>I'm no lawyer so if you have any insight please leave your thoughts in the comments section.</p>
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+[Skype 2.0 for Mac][1] has just been released. The upgrade features support for video calls no matter what kind of computer the call is made to (previously Skype for Mac video calls only worked on calls to other Mac users). The upgrade requires a Mac G4 or better and is a universal binary. 

In other Skype-related news, there's a new site, [Anothr][2], that allows you to get RSS feeds delivered via your Skype account. I was impressed with the idea until I ran across this tidbit in the company's blog: "Skype is not only a cool voice-over-IP tool, but also a perfect P2P application platform with high security."

If anyone out there thinks the VOIP protocol has "high security," contact me for some important real estate listings you don't want to miss. 

[1]: http://www.Skype.com/download/Skype/macosx/ "Skype 2.0 of Mac"
[2]: http://www.anothr.com/ "RSS to your Skype Account"
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+[Ilike][1] is a new music-based social networking site from the people behind [GarageBand][2] (the website not the Mac app). Ilike aims to expose you to new music based on the music you like now.

Ilike has all the familar trapping of a social networking site, create a profile, various ways to meet new members, upload pictures, and more, but iLike also has some very nice tools for finding new music.

The main tool is the iTunes sidebar. The iLike sidebar is an iTunes plugin that adds a sidebar to your iTunes application and makes music recommendations based on what you're listening to at the time. The sidebar adds a little bit of startup time to iTunes, but once it's running it doesn't seem to add any load to the application. Naturally you must be connected to the internet for the iLike sidebar to work.

There are two categories of recommendation from the iLike sidebar: established artists and new, unsigned artists. When you're listening to a song and you see an iLike recommendation you like just click the arrow beside the name and iLike pauses your iTunes playback and streams the new song from its host site. For the established artists you get a 30 second sample and link to buy the song (from iTunes Music Store).

Music for the unsigned artists comes from iLike's partner site, GarageBand and you can listen to the whole song. If you decide you like the song there's a link that will open your web browser and download the file. It would be nice if iLike could somehow just download the song in the background and automatically add it to your library, but that currently isn't possible (if you use Safari this more or less happens anyway).

iLike accounts offers a sort of privacy control that lets you hide "embarrassing" artists which is a good way to hide that fact that I'm currently rockin' the Dio. Not really. Seriously. I'm not. 

The search and recommendations feature is fairly good. I tried throwing a few more obscure artists at it and it was stumped by some them, but it surprised me by finding recommendations for many of them. Interestingly enough, while a few randomly selected Sun Ra tracks turned up nothing in the way of matches, other Sun Ra songs did -- go figure. I suppose as time goes on and more members give more information, the recommended tracks will likely become better.

ILife also claims they will be adding support for other music players in the future (in fact they're openly soliciting programmers to help them if that's your bag).

I will confess to being initially ill-disposed toward iLike and I can take or leave the actual website and social network aspect of the service, but the iTunes sidebar is very slick. It integrates nicely with iTunes and it's a great way to explore both established and new, emerging artists. I try out a lot of stuff for this blog and most of it I forget about a month later, but iLike I might actually keeping around.

[1]: http://www.ilike.com/ "iLike Music Networking site"
[2]: http://garageband.com/ "GarageBand.com"
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+Why reputation defender? What made you want to start this company?

How does the data collection process work?

What methods do you employ for gathering the data on people -- is it all spiders/bots or is there a human element as well?

How do you sort out name collision? For any given name there are usually several individuals in the country, how do you know who's who? And how do you a pontentially libelous statement is directed at your client and not another person with the same name?

From the site:
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"Our trained and expert online reputation advocates use an array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web" 
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What methods do you use to eliminate content? 

Is there a legal component and if so on what basis? Obviously libel law applies in some cases, but what about "embarrassing" content, can you effect the removal of that as well? i.e. drunken prank video on YouTube etc.

How do you handle material posted on sites outside U.S. jurisdiction?

I realize the "myprivacy" feature is in "coming soon" status, but can you say anything about how you plan to get these companies to stop selling personal data?


And finally, this is a bit more abstract, but...
There was a comment on a mashable.com post on reputation defender that talked about human nature being more reactive than proactive and thus people are more likely to care about things of this nature after it's too late (in otherwords after they don't get the job etc). Do you have any response to this thought?
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+[Neighboroo][1] is a fun little site that gives a visual face to usually faceless data like population density, cost of living indexes, tax rates and more. The site combines neighborhood statistics with color-coded Google maps to display information. 

It's an interesting way to dig through census data (or at least I'm assuming the information is coming from census data) without loosing yourself in the numbers. The color codes on the map could be a little bit starker in contrast, sometimes it's hard to tell exactly what shade you're looking at, and deeper zooming on the maps would be nice, but Neighboroo is great at what it does.

Handy for anyone who's moving or thinking of moving and I'm sure there's other uses as well. Found via Folksonomy.

[1]: http://www.neighboroo.com/ "Neighboroo.com"
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+*	Mobile Video site [Veeker][6] launches today.

*	Struggling podcast site [Odeo][1] was acquired today by [Obvious Corp][2] a new company founded by, among others, Odeo's own founder Evan Williams
	
*	Social music service [iLike][3] launched its public beta last night. Similar to Last.fm, iLike is a social networking site built around the music you listen to. iLike helps connect you with emerging artists based on similarities with music you already like.
	
*	Adobe Labs has release a public beta for a new piece of software it calls [SoundBooth][4]. Soundbooth is designed to allow you to easily clean up and edit your audio recordings.

*	And finally here's something for the bored: [all 200,000 Enron emails][5] in a searchable database. From Trampoline: "The Enron Explorer lets you investigate the actions and reactions of Enron's senior management team as the noose began to tighten."

[1]: http://odeo.com/ "odeo.com"
[2]: http://obviouscorp.com/ "Obvious Corp"
[3]: http://www.ilike.com/ "iLike.com"
[4]: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/soundbooth/ "Adobe Soundbooth Beta"
[5]: http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/ "Browse Enron emails"
[6]: http://veeker.com/veeker/Login.html "Veeker.com"
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+I'm always looking for something to topple MySpace's current dominance and today I think I might have found it -- [Vox][1]. Six Apart, the folks that brought us Movable Type, TypePad and LiveJournal, promise that Vox will be "blogging for the rest of us." Vox has been around for a while in beta testing mode, but today the Six Apart service has been unleashed on the world and it looks very, very nice.Whether or not you're "the rest of us" is up to you, but Vox has some very attractive features and a great look and feel.

The user interface and layout is vaguely reminiscent of Flickr, clean, simple and slick. There is no way to directly customize the code of your pages but Vox gives you a ton of page "themes" (165 of them to be exact) to choose from so your pages can have your personal stamp. Even better, adding external content like YouTube movies dead simple.

There's also very minimal advertising on the site pages, most of the ads are confined to the inside editing pages. Within your page there are monitized Amazon affiliate links and other small things, but for the most part you don't notice it when browsing through the site.

As much as I would like to call Vox a potential MySpace killer, the truth is I think they're after a much different demographic. I don't know that the kids will flock to Vox, but older users looking for a non-technical way to join an online community should be very happy with Vox. 

No word on how this affects the future of LiveJournal.

[1]: http://www.vox.com/ "Vox.com"
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+Earlier this week the release of Windows Media Player 11 was pushed back a few days, but the word is it will arrive very soon. Good news -- if you're a Windows user.

As a Mac user, Windows updates tend to slip by me, but Media Player is somewhat cross-platform and I would like to be able to watch .wmv movies on my Mac. Unfortunately Microsoft ceased development on the Mac version of Windows Media Player back at Windows Media Player 9. 

Since that time [Flip4Mac][1] has released a set of codecs that allow you to watch .wmv files via Quicktime (Flip4Mac's free offering is essential a set of codecs that allow Quicktime to read .wmv files). With Microsoft's own website pointing Mac users to Flip4Mac, this seems to be the only option at this point.

I've been quite happy with Flip4Mac and in some ways I like .wmv better than Quicktime movies, but with the imminent release of a new version of Windows Media Player it's possible that we Mac users won't be able to view movies made with the new player.

Does anyone have an suggestions on alternate ways a Mac user can view wmv files? Are there any alternative to Flip4Mac? And does anyone know of a Mac program that can handle Windows Media DRM files (something neither Flip4Mac nor the old official WMPlayer 9 can do)?

[1]: http://www.flip4mac.com/ "Flip4Mac"
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+[The Fedora Project][1] has just announced the release of [Fedora Core 6][2]. According to the release notes the new version features better "install-time access to third-party package repositories, extensive performance improvements, support for Intel-based Macs, and a new GUI virtualization manager." 

The look and feel of Fedora Core 6 have changed a bit too with a new default font and theme. Naturally the new version ships with the latest releases of GNOME and KDE, as well as "some additional options in window managers."

Red Hat claims users will see a noticeable speed boost in application start up, particularly for memory heavy apps like OpenOffice. From the Red Hat press release:

>Enhancements in performance in Fedora Core 6 build upon established, underlying systems. The start-up boost that applications such as OpenOffice.org receive is gained from being rebuilt with DT_GNU_HASH. This hash is optimized for speed and data cache accesses. Another area of enhanced performance is in network file systems, including NFS.


Grab the [torrent from the Fedora site][3].




[1]: http://fedoraproject.org/static-tmp/ "Fedora Core 6 released"
[2]: http://fedoraproject.org/static-tmp/FC6ReleaseSummary.html "Core 6 release notes"
[3]: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ "Download Fedora Core 6 via torrent file"
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+I somehow missed the announcement on this one (they told me this rock came with free wireless, but that turned out to be false), and just now discovered a service by the name of [Free411][1]. Free411 allows you to make free directory assistance calls provided you're willing to sit through a fifteen second ad. With most phone service providers charging upward of $1.25 per call, Free411 is a welcome relief (and should scare the daylights out of the already struggling telecom industry which rakes in $8 billion a year on 411 calls alone).

I just gave it a shot and indeed it works as advertised. After you make your request and before you get your answer you have have to sit through fifteen seconds of adverts. I guess the real question is, what do you value more -- those fifteen seconds of your time, or the $1.25 traditional 411 charges?

[1]: http://www.free411.com/index.php "Call information for free"
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+As I mentioned in the morning reboot, [Google has announced a new feature][1], customized search engines, for their Google Co-op service (a service which, contrary to what some sites have implied, already existed).

A number of competing sites like [Rollyo][2] (which we have [covered in the past][3]) have offered similar services for some time, but the big difference in Google's offering is the ability to monotize your search engine. Which is of course jargon for "it connects to your AdSense account."

Setup is relatively simple. You create a search engine, give it a name, description and some keywords to indicate what it's targeting. Then you add the sites you want to search. According to Google's docs, "you can specify single web pages, entire web sites, and patterns that match certain pages or directories on a site." Which means that target only the content you want found. For instance, if you're including your blog in your search engine, you can tell Google to ignore the homepage (which may change frequently and therefore not be up-to-date in Google's index) and only search your permalinks or individual pages. You can also exclude whole domains using wildcard characters which allows you to build a search engine that can search the whole web, but ignore known link-spam sites (in fact someone has already [start such a search engine][9]).

Once your search engine is built you can collaborate with others by inviting them to contribute to your search engine. Contributors can add sites to include or exclude in your search engine and apply search refinements to them, but they can't change the look or feel of your search, nor can they make money from it. The contributors feature can be open to the world at large or limited to people you invite. This will likely be a popular feature with large organizations looking to build a customized search engine that serves a whole company.

Another useful feature is the "refinements" option which allows you "annotate the websites in your search engine with labels that help users narrow down their search." The labels appear as links at the top of your search results pages and when a user clicks the link that site is given priority in search results.

One nice feature of Rollyo that Google's offering thus far lacks is the [Rollbar][4]. True, Google has [a bookmarklet for easily adding sites to your search][10] as you find them, but the Rollyo Rollbar takes this a step further and let's you search whatever page you're on, whether you add it to your search engine or not. Hopefully Google will offer something similar soon.

You can customize the look and feel of your search engine, colors, logo, and more. And there's about half a dozen other [tweaks][6] and [customizations][5] you can apply that I don't have time to cover in detail.

####But what does it all mean?

Well there's really two possibilities here. One is for web users like you and me who want to be able to control which sites get searched and, perhaps more importantly, which sites *don't* get searched. There is also the potential to earn some revenue via AdSense, but let's be honest, for the average user that isn't going to be much.

And then there's the other side of it for those looking to build a custom search feature into a webpage. For instance, if you have a blog where you write posts but you also pull in photos from your Flickr page, you might want to make a search engine that will search both you blog posts and your Flickr pages for a given term. Most blogging software can do a fairly decent job of searching your posts, but it's useless for the Flickr content. By embedding your custom Google search page in an iframe, you've suddenly got a more powerful search with very little setup effort. To see a real world example of a customized Google search try using the search feature at [RealClimate][7].

All and all Google's new customized search is a very impressive offering, but there are some downsides. if you use the service on your site in an iframe you'll get Google's text ads in addition to your results (you can only get rid of adds if your site qualifies as a "501(c)(3) non-profit, university, or government agency website"). Then there's the whole iframe concept, which is annoying. Thankfully Google is offering what they call an [AJAX Search API][8] for advanced users.

Now if I could just figure out how to get Safari's toolbar Google search to automatically use my new customized search page....

[1]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/eureka-your-own-search-engine-has.html "Google Announces new Customized Search"
[2]: http://www.rollyo.com/ "Rollyo.com"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/08/rollyo_introduc.html "Monkeybites on Rollyo"
[4]: http://www.rollyo.com/bookmarklet.html "Rollbar Bookmarklet"
[5]: http://www.google.com/coop/docs/cse/cse_file.html "Custom Search Engine XML Specification"
[6]: http://google.com/coop/docs/cse/label_file.html "Annotations label file "
[7]: http://www.realclimate.org/ "Try Real Climate's implementation of Google's Customized search engine"
[8]: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/ "Google Custom Search AJAX API"
[9]: http://www.putch.com/
[10]: http://www.google.com/coop/cse/marker "Google marker bookmarklet"
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+File this under things that seem to good to be true: [MediaFire][1] offers free unlimited file storage with no sign up required.

The internet has been all abuzz since MediaFire launched last weekend and so far the reaction seems positive. This is one of those services where I keep waiting for someone to find the hidden catch, but to the best of my knowledge no one seems to have found a catch.

MediaFire acts as a file transfer and storage facility. You upload a file and MediaFire stores it for you. Pretty simple. Transfer times will depend on your internet connection speed.

Once you've uploaded a file MediaFire gives you some cut-and-paste links, one for direct download url, one to create links on your site and one even give you the link in forum code for phpBB and similar bulletin boards. You can also chose send a link via AIM or Yahoo messenger services, or you can send out an email to notify people of your upload. 

As some users have pointed out, the email sent vaguely resembles spam, which could cause problems if you have aggressive spam filters, but otherwise the site is excellent. The interface is simple and easy to use with nice AJAXy progress bars and upload status information.

Though you don't have to, you can sign up for a free account.

There's no ads on the site, and in fact Mediafire might be one of the simplest sites I've seen in a long time. There isn't much in the way of advertising either which is nice. The only thing I can't figure out is how they plan to make money. Of course that never stopped YouTube.

[1]: http://www.mediafire.com/ "MediaFire.com"
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+Buenos Dias Capt. Crunch. Here's your morning reboot.

*	[Apple computer announced][1] that "its entire MacBook Pro line of notebooks now includes the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor and delivers performance that is up to 39 percent faster than the previous generation."

*	Google launched a customized search service this morning. Called [Google Co-op][2], the service allows a user to create and launch a search engine with just a few specific websites included in the results.

*	[IBM is suing Amazon][3] over some e-commerce patents, most notably the technology that powers the product recommendation features.

*	CrunchGear is reporting an interesting rumor (note that, *rumor*) that Microsoft's upcoming [Zune mp3 player will offer referral payments][4] which you can cash in for free songs or other items from the Zune Marketplace.

*	

[1]: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/oct/24macbookpro.html "New Macbook Pros"
[2]: http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ "Google Co-op"
[3]: http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=47239 "IBM sues Amazon"
[4]: http://crunchgear.com/2006/10/23/zune-to-pay-you-back-for-sharing-songs/ "Earn credits for sharing music? Maybe."
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+I got several emails about yesterday's write up of RealTravel including one that pointed me to [Travelistic][1] a new site that claims to have "more video that any other travel site." At this point Travelistic is basically a YouTube for travelers with a mixture of professional and user submitted videos, but it claims to be expanding soon. 

I found the user content more appealing, but Travelistic does license some fairly big-name video content like ThirstyTraveler and others. The site also claims to be looking for "Rocketboom of Travel" so if you feel you've got the talent... (Note to Travelistic: I think this would be more compelling if advertised as "the Ze Frank of travel").

Travelistic also has a super handy feature named "mapify" that lets you generate cut-n-paste code to drop a Google map on your profile page so others can track where you are in the world. 


[1]: http://www.travelistic.com/ "Travelistic.com"
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+[Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child][1] (OLPC) initiative is preparing to launch it's $100 laptop dubbed the 2B1. Quanta Computer of Taiwan, the world's largest manufacturer of laptops, will ship 5,000 test units later next month.

When you write about the happenings of the tech world Muammar Qaddafi doesn't come up much, but in this case he's one of the first customers of the 2B1 and he hopes to put one in the hands of every child in Libya. China, Argentina, Brazil and others are also slated to receive the new machines.

But it seems that no good deed must go uncriticized and in this case the winner of the Monty Burns Jackass Award is Intel CEO Craig Barrett who has roundly criticized the project and, according to Forbes magazine, wrote an internal memo claiming "the OLPC represents a limited version of the modern PC, reliant on old hardware that limits its functionality."

I think what he means by this is that the 2B1 uses cutting edge hardware from rival chip maker AMD. Bill Gates is no big fan of the project either. Would it shock you to learn that the 2B1 ships with Linux pre-installed? I didn't think so.

Having just returned from traveling in some of the countries slated to receive these machines I thought I'd share a few thoughts. First off no one who's living a small rural village cares whether or not they have the latest hardware or software. Many of the potential recipients of these machines would be happy to get running water or electricity.

The other thing that I think get's overlooked quite a bit in the 2B1 coverage is that these machines can form an ad-hoc wireless network with each other. I haven't been able to track down distance specs for the network, but one of things that limits the lives of people in remote locations is lack of communication and anything that addresses this need is going to be welcome.

If current plans hold, OLPC will ship at least 50 million 2B1s a year by the end of 2008. That's more than all the laptops sold worldwide last year.

[1]: http://laptop.org "One Laptop Per Child"
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+As we mentioned earlier today, Yahoo has updated/released a new service called [Yahoo Bookmarks][2]. At first I thought Bookmarks was an improvement for the existing Yahoo MyWeb service (which has long offered a bookmark storage service), but it turns out it's a separate product. What makes it all even more confusing is that Yahoo actually acquired De.lico.us some time ago so now they technically have three bookmarking services (Del.icio.us users there's no need to freak out, [Del.icio.us isn't going anywhere][1]).

Yahoo's services have always been a bit of a jumble (go the home page and try to find a link to MyWeb) and frankly I still haven't figured out a way to get to the new Bookmarks service without typing it straight in the url. But it is in beta so we'll leave that alone for now.

If you'd like to see what all the new Bookmarks service has to offer there's [an excellent screencast available][3], but I'll give a quick overview anyway.

Yahoo Bookmarks has all the standard bells and whistles we've come to expect in bookmarking sites such as annotations, tags and thumbnails. It also offers a caching feature much like [Ma.gnolia][4] which stores the content of the page so it's accessible even if the page disappears. Personally this is the reason I switched from Del.icio.us to Magnolia some time ago so kudos to Yahoo for offering this feature.  Unfortunately the "view saved copy" link didn't actually work when I tested it, but it may just take a little while for Yahoo to actually cache the page.

The integration with the Yahoo toolbar is seamless and quite nice, something I wish other services  were better at providing. Yahoo also claims it's working on integrating with FireFox which would be nice for users that don't want to be bound to the Yahoo toolbar.

While at first glance Bookmarks looks a lot like a better designed, AJAX heavy De.lico.us, they're really quite different. For one thing, Yahoo Bookmarks is not a social bookmarking site, it's a way to store your bookmarks online. You can share bookmarks by emailing them to others, but there is no "community pool" feature and no searching through other users bookmarks such as del.ici.ous offers. 

There are more powerful bookmarking sites out there, but Yahoo's interface is nice and for existing Yahoo users the addition of Bookmarks will no doubt prove useful. As for those already using Del.icio.and other services, or those wanting the sharing aspect of social bookmarking site, Yahoo's new service may leave you wanting. 

And finally I should note that Safari had some issues with Yahoo's JavaScript features, but everything worked well in FireFox. Your mileage may vary.


[1]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/24/Yahoo-bookmarks-enters-21st-century/#comment-298831
[2]: http://beta.bookmarks.Yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Bookmarks"

[3]: http://beta.bookmarks.Yahoo.com/welcome "Yahoo Bookmarks Screencast"
[4]: http://ma.gnolia.com "Social bookmarking with Ma.gnolia"
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+While it's nothing you can't do on your own, the recently launched [Briefli][1], provides a nice AJAX frontend to some advanced Google search features. Using the <code>inurl</code> and <code>intitle</code> operators, Briefli allows you to search for music, videos, torrents and more in open directories. You type in your search and the results load into the page in realtime.

Briefly is simple and efficient. I was able to very easily find a PDF manual for my Canon s50 camera without wading through the results of a traditional search. Briefli ignores links in pages in favor of the actual files those links point to, making it more efficient for finding files than an "I'm Feeling Lucky" search.

Along the same lines is the nice [GMBMG][4] (Give Me Back My Google), which strips out affiliate links in Google searches. 

And yes I know I can do all this stuff myself on Google, but services like Briefli and GMBMG save me from having to remember all those keywords and operators. 

For those that have never explored the extensive list of keywords and operators that Google offers for refining searches, check out the [Advanced Operators][3] documentation.

[1]: http://www.briefli.com/
[2]: http://www.marcandangel.com/2006/10/13/turn-google-into-napster-2000/ "Google Advanced Search Techniques"
[3]: http://www.google.com/help/operators.html "Google Advanced Operators"
[4]: http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/ "Give Me Back My Google"
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+[Parlophone][1], a British record label under the EMI umbrella, [announced earlier this week][2] that it will now accept music submissions in MP3 format via an online portal. A new piece of software designed by a former musician allows aspiring artists to upload their music files directly to the Parlophone site.

It's almost like a record company has suddenly realized what century it is. But not really, because after an hour on Google I'm no closer to finding a link to said service than I was when I read about it yesterday. Oh there's half a dozen pages of news blurbs culled from Parlophone press releases, but nothing like an actual link. Parlophone's own website resembles a link spam page and offers nothing more than links to its artist's websites.

Assuming Parlophone (and the several other labels that already use this service) ever get their act together and provide some information to these struggling artists they purport to support, the question remains -- will the kids today even care?

Let's see, upload your music to Parlophone and hope a suit will hear the money in your songs, or upload it to MySpace and reach millions of fans directly... Gosh. It's almost like, uh, maybe we don't need these record companies anymore.


[1]: http://www.parlophone.co.uk/newsite/ "Parlophone Website"
[2]: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1930202,00.html "Guardian Article on Parlophone Announcement"

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*	 Windows Defender [the free anti-spyware package][1] from Microsoft has entered the final release phase. Finally. After two years. 

*	Yahoo announces [Yahoo Bookmarks][2] a delicious like bookmarking service for Yahoo members.

*	[Amazon has said no to Google's request][3] for information about Amazon's book search feature. Amazon lawyers claim Google wants "essentially all documents concerning Amazon's sale of books on its Web sites, and all searching and indexing functions." Ya think? Google says it needs the information to fight copyright infringement allegations from a group of authors and book publishers.

*	[Nicholas Negroponte's $100 laptop][4] is going into production in November. The goal is to provide cheap technology for children around the world. 

[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=435BFCE7-DA2B-4A6A-AFA4-F7F14E605A0D&displaylang=en "Download Windows Defender"

[2]: http://beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Bookmarks"

[3]: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8KV7AUO0.htm "Google wants Amazon Search Info"

[4]: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/8391805/ "$100 laptop starts production"
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+If you've been putting off the purchase of a new PC or laptop because you're waiting for Windows Vista, wait no more. No Vista isn't here, but at least if you buy a new machine now you won't have to pay to upgrade to Vista when it finally does arrive. Yes, that's right, Microsoft announced that new hardware purchases made from October 26th onward will be eligible for a [free upgrade to Windows Vista][1].

Or a nearly free upgrade since the exact process varies somewhat between manufacturers. [NotebookReview][2] has a detailed rundown of what different vendors are offering in terms of rebates.

The upgrade program is good from October 26, 2006 thru March 15, 2007. In some ways there's never been a better time to buy a new machine since you'll effectively get both Vista and XP for the price of one.

[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/expressupgrade.mspx "Free Upgrade to Vista for eligible Purchases"

[2]: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3302
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