If you want to get a quick run down of the top tech news for the day you should check out ‘Loaded’ on CNET TV hosted by Natali Del Conte. In today’s episode, Natali talks about the new iPod shuffle among other things. The question I have is how small is too small? If they make the thing any smaller you won’t be able to see it anymore.
LifeHacker did an informal survey asking its readers to write in who their favorite hosting company is and why. Seven companies kept coming up over and over again.
Take a look:
DreamHost
Blue Host
NearlyFreeSpeech.Net
1&1
GoDaddy
HostGator - My personal favorite
A Small Orange
I have tried many hosting companies over the years and I can honestly say that HostGator has been the best host I've ever dealt with. Their prices are great and their customer service is second to none. There's nothing worse than having a website emergency at 2 in the morning and be unable to reach anyone...
If you're too cool to watch TV anymore and want wall to wall coverage of today's historic election, then you sir, are in luck.
John McCain's Official Ustream
Barack Obama's Official Ustream
The Strategy Room - Cool unfiltered Fox News webcast live from the studio with web only round table discussions and guests.
(hat tip LifeHacker)
Google will now be indexing scanned documents -- takeover of world almost complete.
From the Google Blog:
In the past, scanned documents were rarely included in search results as we couldn't be sure of their content. We had occasional clues from references to the document-- so you might get a search result with a title but no snippet highlighting your query. Today, that changes. We are now able to perform OCR on any scanned documents that we find stored in Adobe's PDF format. This Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology lets us convert a picture (of a thousand words) into a thousand words...