New search engine

A new search engine, claimed to do a better and more comprehensive job of indexing info and web sites than Google, has just been launched. It's called Cuil, which is pronounced 'cool'. It's founders are former workers from Google who wrote much of Google's vital code. Many analysts believe Cuil, as with other search engines, won't be able to match, let alone defeat Google. Cuil claims it uses more than 120 billion webpages in its index. It claims this is more sites than Google, but Google has stopped reporting how many sites it indexes. Google claims its index is still bigger, without revealing any numbers.

An interesting article concerning Cuil and Google can be found here

Richard Branson's new space plane

In the middle of the Mojave Desert today, Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson unveiled a new space plane that will carry the passenger space rocket to a launch height of 48,000 feet. a $200,000 price tag for tickets limits the thrill of commercial space flight to only the wealthiest. The maiden voyage could possibly be before the end of the decade. After the space plane carries the rocket to it's launch height and releases it, passengers will experience four minutes of weightlessness. Branson will take his family on the maiden voyage and 250 other wealthy people have reserved seats.

Apple iPhone 3G

Introducing iPhone 3G. With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one — a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser. iPhone 3G. It redefines what a mobile phone can do — again.

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PSP Screens

Over the past two years, I've had two PSP's. I dropped one of them and it broke. The second one fell in the shower, and as you can imagine, it no longer operates. So I had two broken PSP's, what was I going to do? Well naturally I took them apart to see what it was like inside. It took a while, and my thumbs were throbbing after try to get all of the miniscule screws out, but I successfully removed both LCD screens from the cases. They still have the connector pins and look okay. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas what I could do with these screens? I might be able to sell them as replacement screens, but maybe someone can think of something more creative.

Logitech MX518 Gaming Grade Optical Mouse

Recently I decided it was time that I bought a new mouse. Up until that time, I had been using the regular mouse that came with my computer, nothing special. I did some research and found a few mice that looked like they would work and weren't too expensive. I was comparing the Logitech G5 Laser Gaming Mouse and the Logitech MX518 Gaming Grade Optical Mouse, the latter being $10 less. There wasn't that much of a difference between them sensitivity wise, the laser mouse having 2000dpi and the optical having 1600dpi. The G5 had a few extra fancy things such as adjustable weight, but in the end I picked the Mx518 just because it had a better looking skin.

Overall I'm very pleased with the mouse I chose. It's easily ten times better than my previous mouse. I really like the back and forward buttons on the side of the mouse for web browsing. I also like how you can adjust the sensitivity instantly just by pressing a button. The highest setting on the Mx518, 1600dpi, turned out to be too sensitive for me anyway. It;s a good thing I didn't go with the G5.