SysAdmin Blog, TechTips and Reviews
There’s a new player in town for the search engine business. Nope, not that ‘Google killer search engine‘ called Cuil (aint that defunct yet?) The new search engine that’s making a buzz in the world wide internet is called Wolfram Alpha.
I first read and heard about this from a collegue who writes on review ninja and most of the info you’ll read about Wolfram alpha search engine here are borrowed from TechCrunch and other Wolfram Alpha wikis.
Internet is a common thing nowadays. There is internet in everywhere we go and the access to it is also pretty easy to get. With so many website flocking the internet today, parents are alarmed because even a child can access the untamed, wild places of the internet.
Fortunately there is KidZui, an internet browser specifically made for children.
Usually what we parents do (yes folks, your Sysadmin is a dad) is to blacklist all the harmful and inappropriate sites in the net, but as you know, the internet has boom and it is growing like wildfire. And we can’t always filtered out those bad sites (pornographic, violence etc) with the uncontrollable growth of the internet.
What the folks in Kidzui did was, instead of filtering out or blacklisting those sites not suitable for children, they instead whitelisted those that are definitely child-friendly websites.
How did they do it? How did they compile those websites that are educational, entertaining and absolutely for safe for children?
During that time, the company has hired around 200 teachers and parents from across the United States to scour the net for appropriate sites and content. So far they’ve whitelisted about 500,000 websites, as well as many videos found on YouTube. Spiders have helped to gather this content, but ultimately all of it was reviewed manually by humans.
That’s from TechCrunch.
My son has been using Kidzui for a month now, and I must say that the application is impressive… It even has this reporting thing that is being sent to the parent’s email… to know which sites the child is browsing.
Kidzui really is amazing, it has potential.. More power to Kidzui… You are doing children and parents and the whole internet community a great thing.
Everybody seems to be twitting these days. I have a twiter (twitter) account, I am assuming that you too twit. All of my friends are on twiter and most of the people here at work are all twitters.
Micro blogging, as twiter I guess is categorized, has becoming more and more popular. Maybe because it’s faster and more convenient to say what you want to say or share the things you want to people in just a few strokes of the keyboard.
Here’s what I read in Tech Crunch About the amazing growth of twiter user in the United States:
Here are some interesting things you might want to know about sopcast.. taken directly from Google’s index or google’s search result in no particular order.
Anyway, SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology.. This is what the guys in napsters (or even someone else older) started.. from music not to pictures/movies and televisions.
Nowadays, all services provided on www.sopcast.com/www.sopcast.cn are totally free. You can download all software listed below freely.
This is actually amazing. I am Truly amazed by it.. Why haven’t I learned about this a years ago while there are still FRIENDS or Perfect Strangers?!
You can try the SopCast client, channels will be listed on it. If you have not installed SopCast Client, please go to download page!
More information coming soon!
FireFTP is an FTP program that works within the Firefox Web browser. Well, Firefox is not actually a full-pledge program but a Firefox plugin or addon. The best thing about this ftp client is that it’s FREE! (Just like any other open source applications/software).
If you’re not familiar with Firefox, it’s an open source web browser and I suggest you use it right now. Trash that IE and start using Firefox (or Google Chrome – cooler!).
File transfer protocol (FTP) is how we send large files from one computer to another using the Internet — not an e-mail attachment.
Here’s how to install and use FireFTP on Firefox.