It looks like Ask.com is trying compete with the bigger players by providing a more specialised search. This will be made possible by integrating its latest acquisitions; Thesaurus.com, Reference.com and Dictionary.com.
As it stands, Ask.com makes up only 5% of the market share according to Comscore with only 22 million hits a month placing it in 5th spot.
ASUS has begun embedding a Linux operating system on selected motherboards. They are using a basic distro called Splashtop that will offer Firefox and Skype support. The cool thing is you won’t need a hard drive to boot your PC and it is near instant to switch on.
As far as embedded software goes it may just be up there Alex the Kid on the Master System!
Visit Splashtop to view a demo and see what motherboards are supported.
Firefox 3 is one step closer to release after Mozilla distributed the first release candidate of its latest browser. It was made available to around 1.2million testers with no date yet on public release.
On Mozilla’s developer blog they comment on this being the final release if no bugs are found and if so more RCs to follow. Here is hoping it is clean!
If you can’t wait then download RC1 here.
[Update] You can now download the RC via the software update in Firefox.
Yep, the Star Wars franchise has another Clone Wars animated film coming out. This time however it is a CGI remake of the first chapter, which looks pretty damn cool in the trailers available.
There are several about, this one is via Lucas Film.
Trailer #1 and for more SW and other trailers check out The Movie Box.
The OSSwin Project is a site, hosted by SourceForge, that has compiled a huge list of open source software for Windows, broken into categories for easier browsing. They also have a separate page for games. All very much worth checking out for regular or new open source users.
This is a guessing game by Grant Robinson based on his project, Montage-a-google. You are given a montage of pictures and have to guess what keyword they have in common.
Start guessing NOW.
Also have a look at his original project mentioned above which creates a large montage of google images based on your keyword.
IByPass is a proxy bypass site that claims to be able to help you access any site at work or at school including your favourites; MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Google News and Gmail! There are also a list of alternative mirrors to use if their default site also happens to be blocked.
This is ideal for those situations where you are away from your computer and you want to send somone (or yourself) a large file without any fuss. These guys will let you, without signing up, send a file upto 100mb by just typing in the destination email and uploading the file. Couldn’t be easier!
This is a small game project I have been watching for a little while now.
The aim of the game is quite simple, you get the ball from the start to the finish… the feature that makes this stand out is you draw the objects you need to move the ball!
Instead of me trying to explain it is easier for you to have a look at a preview via the developers blog - HERE.
His original (screenshot shown below) and simpler version, a game made in 7 days, is available to download HERE. But still worth downloading to get an idea of what he is trying to do.
Also posted on the Forum.
Previously it was rather annoying having the domain point to the forums and the blog linked from that.
So you will now notice Cyberllama.net has three images pointing to the ‘forums’, ‘blog’ and an all new ‘design’.
This is to make the choice much easier to new and regular users alike.
The introduction of the ‘design’ page will allow me to share my web design projects separately.
It also features a new look Cyberllama logo (seen on right) which I made for the page. Not sure if it will replace the old logo though.
