Author: Jeff

Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country’s free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet’s fastest growing market. What happened to Google’s motto of “Don’t be evil”? 🙁

HandBrake is a free GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. Its very useful for making dvds ipod compatible and also its a great way to backup DVDs onto your computer or external hard drive. * Supported sources: o Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (even encrypted) o PAL or NTSC… Continue reading Free DVD to mp4 (Ipod compatible) converter

Google has finally taken its online news service out of beta, and has added a feature that automatically recommends stories to subscribers of its personalized search offering. Google News, launched in September 2002, is a computer-automated system that lists related articles in groups, which the search engine calls “clusters.” The service, which does not use… Continue reading Google News out of beta

Flock is a free, open source web browser, built upon on the Mozilla codebase. It is lightweight and superbly elegant. Flock also offers full integration with sites like Flickr and del.icio.us. And not just a bookmark bar button that adds links to your del.icio.us homepage, but a button in the toolbar which adds the current… Continue reading Elegant new browser – Flock