Monday, January 28, 2002

Notified Weblogs.Com that Chris Pirillo's Headline Happiness updated. And it said in response - Thanks for the ping. We checked and found that the "Chris Pirillo's Headline Happiness" weblog has changed, so it will appear in changes.xml next time it is updated. 11:43:45 PM

14258 » January 28 10:04 PM. E-Filing Your Taxes This Year? If your adjusted gross income is $25,000 or less, you can file your taxes with Quicken Turbotax on the Web and waive the $19.99 filing fee through their Tax Freedom Project. Who says that all the good free web goodies are gone? 11:42:43 PM

Font Lister: This font browser thing shows all of your installed fonts (along with a sentence in the face) on a Web page. If you're on Windows 2000 or XP and you want a quick look at your fonts, check it out... 11:42:13 PM

No Pop-up Ads on Google. Google does not allow pop-up ads of any kind on our site. We find them annoying. So why do they occasionally appear when you search on Google? Here are a few possible explanations... 11:41:20 PM

EXPLORE FOR FILES (free): Right click a file or shortcut and pull up its whole folder in Explorer. 9:36:55 PM

Palm Launches i705 Handheld. After months of delays and uncertainty, Palm Monday launched its i705 wireless handheld device. 4:30:26 PM

A Glove That Speaks Volumes. A teenager has turned a golf glove into a tool that can translate American Sign Language into text. Want to know more? Talk to the hand. 4:29:38 PM

Why does Netscape still exist? Netscape actually lost the browser wars a long time ago, in part because of Microsoft's tactics but also because its product is no longer very good - and no judicial ruling is going to change that. Even AOL realizes this, since it bundles Internet Explorer instead of Netscape with its own PC software. 4:29:30 PM

"MyParty" worm fails to attract a crowd. A viral e-mail attachment posing as a Web link has spread moderately throughout computers in the United States and Great Britain. 4:28:56 PM

SEARCH - How it works. Search engines provide a way of finding that elusive needle in the internet haystack. 4:28:48 PM

Stop Crying Over Spilt CSS. New articles at meryl.net articles including “CSS Without Tears with Makiko Itoh”. It's an good way to start learning CSS. I wish I had this advice when I first met... 4:28:42 PM

XP successor Longhorn goes SQL, P2P - Microsoft leaks. Some roadmap slippage has apparently occurred, too, as the database core will be introduced into Longhorn, and Blackcomb has been pushed further back. That leaves a gap for a point revision of XP next year, although there's no sign of this on the roadmap just yet. 4:28:33 PM

Episode II Hallmark Cristmas Ornaments. D. Horne alerts us that Hallmark has updated their 2002 Christmas Ornament preview with three Attack of the Clones ornaments: Slave I, Jango Fett, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Unfortunately there are no pictures yet, but now you know some of what to expect. 4:28:09 PM

Proposal: The Open Data Format Initiative. I use Outlook Express as my e-mail client, and the other day I decided to back up my saved messages. The data files are in a proprietary format, so just copying them would have forced me to run Outlook Express in order to read them. 4:27:47 PM

Intel Has Plan B in Case Itanium Fails. Microprocessor giant Intel Corporation is developing a secret plan to extend its 32-bit Pentium 4 product line into the 64-bit realm just in case its designed-from-scratch, pure 64-bit Itanium line falters in the market. It's code-named "Yamhill." 4:27:37 PM

Intersil announces near-term 802.11g chipset availability: Q2 of this year, Intersil will offer some limited quantites; Q3 in mass numbers. Note that Intersil carefully mentions this is a "draft standard"; 802.11g has not been ratified. The encoding algorithm compromis allowed the process to continue going forward, but experts expect that it will be year's end before we see ratification of the final standard. [80211b News] 4:27:07 PM

It don't mean a thing if you aint got that ping. Remember last week when MT users were having trouble pinging weblogs.com? Ben has posted a patch for the problem. 4:26:49 PM

I Need a Cheatsheet. First I have to confess - I never use "Favorites" in IE. I almost always send shortcuts to the desktop... 4:26:38 PM

Easy Images from the Desktop. There's a special folder called the Watched Folder -- you control where it is, but it defaults to your operating systems' idea of where pictures should be stored. 4:26:24 PM

MotherBoard Monitor 5.1.0.5 Beta Released. Motherboard Monitor will provide you with information about your motherboard's temperature, voltages, fan speeds and CPU temperature. 4:25:20 PM

Shoe In. Have I ever told you about my shoes? It's a long story. We used to store all our wardrobe at... 4:24:38 PM