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Wednesday, 07 January 2009 |
Google is the generally accepted king of the search engines, followed by Yahoo and MSN. Other smaller engines exist, which aren't quite as useful, but some new Ajax-y alternatives (excluding Scroogle) exist. This article attempts to showcase some of the cooler and more useful engines.
Scroogle isn't an ajax based engine, but I feel it deserves an honorable mention. Scroogle is a scraper that displays Google results to you, as a service to keep you anonymous. There is even an https feature for added security.
Searchme is a nice ajax engine which shows screenshots of the results, and they rotate as you drag a slider bar. It offers images, video, music, and shopping results with the shuffled results. It is really good looking, and works very well.
Gigablast is a "powerful new search engine that does real time indexing." I think that means that it indexes the sites that refer visitors to it. That said, it currently has 4,822,055,863 pages indexed. Another one to try if you're sick of Google.
RedZee, the coolest of these engines has a really great logo. It's animated and flashy. Outside of that, it displays the results in a carousel, with snapshots of the pages to be viewed, and it has an easy link back to the results that is displayed at the top of the pages discretely in the corner. The result pages look somewhat like a ferris wheel, and in general, this search, like Searchme is very cool functionally.
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
Another year, another semester of college class, and I have to do my taxes for the first or second time. That does not mean I won't have plenty of downtime for doing geeky things, including updating this site. I have several things planned for the future to write about, and hope that they will be useful to my readers. Here is a list of what you can expect of me in the coming weeks:
- A Guide to Linux on HP Laptops (This will be based on my experiences with my dv9205us, and includes the Zen Kernel).
- Several SEO Related Posts, including ethics, and content scraping
- Hopefully at least one joint article with Ask The Admin.com, and perhaps one with I-Hacked.com
- Random postings that I may from time to time add about my life (usually ranting about something)
- Many link additions, as I plan to update my link collection here on the site, and add more
- I have a new Samsung Delve. As an Alltel user, I can guarantee that I will be writing on my hack attempts to customize this phone.
- Tales of my staying up for marathon amounts of hours...like 36 or more hours (probably not, too boring...)
I can't think of much more to mention right now, although there should be much more. I will post many new things in the days ahead, not just for this semester, but also for the entire new year.
Until we meet again, why not torrent jPod, and if you find it geeky and fun enough, find a copy of the book by the same name. Both are great, and if you are a true geek, I suspect you will thouroughly enjoy them.
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
Well, in an effort to have some fun with the sites who have recently been leeching pictures of my Surge Soda collection (see them in the left side menu) without giving a link back with a citation to me being the original picture taker/owner/source, I have replaced the originals with a citation of my own.
See it in action at this bandwidth leeching jerk's site, or just scroll down a bit to see it.
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Saturday, 06 December 2008 |
The Pirates of the Amazon Firefox Extension was taken down as a result of Amazon wielding the DMCA hammer. It will display images with a link to a torrent on the piratebay that says "Download 4 Free" if the product is up for torrenting.
Here's the original site for documentation.
Here's a backup link, for archival purposes only.
Here's another (Local, in a zip for obfuscation)
And another (TorrentFreak)
For any DMCA concerns, please email parwok (at) gmail dot com. I do not endorse piracy or the use of this extension; however it is a useful example of Firefox code.
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
What is Guy Fawkes day? Check Wikipedia.
Join the Guy Fawkes Day celebration here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=33799790962
We shouldn't be bitter about the elections. We should be happy about the turnout, and should rejoice in knowing that God uses all things for good, and that He puts all leaders in power, good or bad, in order to fulfill his Divine plan.
If you want something to be concerned with, be concerned with the fact that OUR congress, our supposed "representatives" may do the same as they have for the last few decades, and not really represent us to the point they should be. It is very possible that these mostly careerist politicians will simply try to keep the right people happy in order to keep their cushy jobs and their lobbyist brib---erm I mean "gifts."
What can you do? Be a revolutionary. It doesn't require violence as Guy Fawkes attempted. In reality, it requires you to voice your concerns, convictions, thoughts, and oppositions to your representatives and senators, both state and national. Write letters/emails or make phonecalls on a daily basis. Tell likeminded others to do the same. Only when the populous does this will the majority truly have representation.
"No taxation without representation!"
When was the last time your reps accurately performed their duty according to their constiutents'? If it wasn't recently, we shouldn't have to pay our tax dollars in for their $160k a year + free health for life + pension benefits. Either kick them out in election, or try something bold and Guy Fawkes-like, like the following:
Petition to have the person(s) removed from office, or go all out and call for a constitutional convention (this would require a petition and a gigantic public outcry). When called, a constitutional convention can totally reshape the country through removing people office (even the president), amendment the constitution, totally rewrite a new constitution from scratch, or simply fire congress. Then, the states all have to vote. A 3/4 or more vote by the states in favor of any action makes it law, and it thus happens. Fired the bad representation one way or another? Time for an emergency election. Make sure to choose the right person for the job!
Happy Guy Fawkes Day! Be a revolutionary in your own right! God Bless the USA!
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