playing with flock

Flock uses the gecko engine, and adds built-in support for all the social media sites people love. Facebook, flickr, twitter, youtube, photobucket, picasa, piczo, blogger, blogsome, liveJournal, Typepad, WordPress.com, Xanga, (or self-hosted blogs), del.icio.us, magolia, gmail, and Yahoo! Mail.

So, you no longer need to be at these sites to see there content. I can view my favorite You Tube videos on a separate pane. I can send links via email with a button next to the address bar. For many people, everything they offer is useless; but if your a web 2.0 addict, this is right up your ally.

free online storage

The most GB of storage I've seen to date when it comes to online storage. MediaMax has a 25GB free option. If that's not enough, odds are they will beat any other price you will find. How do they do it? low monthly bandwidth. If you are looking at sharing files with a few friends, this is perfect, if you want to send data to thousands of people, this is not your plan.

Another thing worth noting is file size limits. With the free account no file can be larger than 10MB and you have 1GB of monthly download (they imply unlimited upload).

hulu is what I was looking for.

For those who have not yet heard of Hulu, it's a video Service that offers ad based Movies and TV shows. It is very smiler to how the studios have been doing things on there own sites; with one difference. hulu

SkySails Maiden flight

Why flight and not voyage? I don't know. This is the first company to make a sail boat without a keel that would bottom out in the dock. This design lets a kite pull the boat when the trade winds are right. Pretty cool design if you ask me!

They say it will have huge fuel savings, the first trip didn't get that much use out of the sail, but it did work.

S/MIME

S/MIME seems better supported than pgp for email use. it's built-in to the new mac mail app, thunderbird(for all three OS), a firefox plugin for gmail, OE, and Outlook. There are plugins for many other apps, like Eudora(some support?), Mulberry, and Lotus Notes(built in?).

PGP is more often done with a plug-in. I also like the web of trust better in S/MIME. SSL certs are a well established way of showing you are who you say you are. The disadvantage is you more often have to pay for the SSL cert. Get free a one at comando.net