Archive for August 2006

My new Flickr gallery

Sunday, 13 August 2006

I have now signed up with Flickr, to provide another way of sharing my photos. Later I plan to integrate my Flickr photos into the existing gallery on my website. In the meantime, I have uploaded a few new photos to my Flickr account of my trip to Diamond, and of the newly restored roof [...]

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Paying twice for downloads

Tuesday, 8 August 2006

Legal video download services are looking to the technologies used by “illegal” fire-sharing services to speed up downloads. By using a peer-to-peer network, the files are downloaded in parts from other users instead of being downloaded sequentially from a central server. This should improve the speed as it isn’t limited by the server’s bandwidth. But [...]

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New Google search interface

Sunday, 6 August 2006

Last week I noticed that the appearance of my Google search results had changed. There was a new column down the left side with links for Images, Groups, News, etc. and alongside each one there was a green bar-chart, presumably to indicate the number of search results for each type of search. There were some [...]

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