Ask.com Redesigned, Again
The Search engine Ask.com is going through another makeover in a continued effort to boost the number of its users. The relaunch is only the latestRead More…
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Superbrowser: Google Chrome is on it’s way
Chrome is coming! Google’s open source browser project, is coming out in Windows beta. It will be available here soon. This comic by Scott McCloud, Read More…
I Bought My First Firefox Extension Today
While Walt Mossberg is getting buzz for calling Firefox 3 the “best browser for web — for now,” I thought I’d point out my first time paying fRead More…
Comcast Rewards You for Complaining Publicly
Good ol’ Michael Arrington of TechCrunch had an interesting weekend in which he learned how to minimize the classic ISP runaround (i.e., the customeRead More…
Amazon’s Attempt at Helping Its HD DVD Customers
Earlier this week Best Buy announced that it would offer $50 gift cards to its customers that purchased HD DVD players before February 23. Not only thRead More…
Best Buy Giving $10 Million in Gift Cards to HD DVD Buyers
Best Buy is giving $50 to anyone who bought an HD DVD player from Best Buy before February 23. The company said that customers “won’t have to do aRead More…
Twitter Review: Waste of Time or Extremely Valuable?
So I finally gave in and started using Twitter this past weekend (if you’re on Twitter, follow me at twitter.com/bobcaswell). What is Twitter? It’Read More…
Bad Form: Companies Still Send Passwords via Email
Let’s face it; we all reuse the same password for login accounts all over the Internet. At best, some of us create a few passwords through which we Read More…
Search 1.0: Search Engines Still Lack Simple Features
I have a sister who, over the weekend, pointed out a major shortcoming of search engines. It’s so obvious that I’m not sure why I didn’t think oRead More…
HD DVD Price Drops while Blu-ray Screws Early Adopters
Not sure if this is related to the news of Warner Bros. going Blu-ray exclusive, but Amazon has this Toshiba HD DVD player with seven movies for only Read More…