Digg recently introduced the DiggBar to all links to articles from its site. This bar at the top of a page allows you to digg or bury an article, share it via e-mail, twitter, or facebook, and more. Personally, I don't like it. I found myself closing it every time I was looking at an article redirected from Digg. If I wanted to share a link, I'd get the original source … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2009
AlternativeTo – Free Replacements for Popular Desktop and Mobile Apps
AlternativeTo provides a simple, straight forward means to finding free software that will provide the same functionality as a commercial title. It offers listings for Windows, Mac, Linux, and online applications. They also have a fairly new Mobile section that offers listings of alternative software for smart phones like the iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, Android, Blackberry, … [Read more...]
US Government Transparency on IT Spending
Since I could not have said it better myself:The IT Dashboard provides the public with an online window into the details of Federal information technology investments and provides users with the ability to track the progress of investments over time. The IT Dashboard displays data received from agency reports to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), including general … [Read more...]
Battery Life Benchmarks
There's been an interesting flurry of news lately regarding the way battery life is measured. Almost any consumer that has purchased a notebook or netbook lately has likely realized that the battery life (measured in hours) that was advertised to them has been at least slightly exaggerated. That circumstance is the topic of a number of blog posts on the official AMD blog which … [Read more...]