Ninite is my favorite service on the entire internet. Essentially, it is a software installation service, but in reality, it is so much more. For some reason, the auto-update feature of many software programs fails from time to time. On my computer, the number one culprit is the Thunderbird email client. I don’t think it [...]
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I like to order pizza online from Pizza Hut. There are two primary reasons for this. First, I don’t have to go hunting for coupons because Pizza Hut shows both its current coupons and its advertised specials under “Deals” on the website. Second, I can see how much more an order ends up costing based [...]
A screen that popped up when I tried to log onto Delicious today says that Yahoo has sold off the popular Internet bookmarks website to a new company called AVOS, which is apparently from the founders of YouTube. Ever since Yahoo’s business strategy was leaked on some PowerPoint slides, people have been expecting this, but [...]
Counting links is the core of Google’s ranking algorithm. The idea that the more incoming links a webpage has the greater its “authority” or the more highly recommended it is has powered Google search for a long time. Unfortunately, one of the main reasons Google is broken is that counting links is no longer a [...]
