Google Desktop Search – Enterprise edition

Google released their Enterprise edition of the Desktop Search tool they released in October last year. Not exactly Home Automation, but maybe of interest to people who got hooked on it using it at home but weren’t allowed to use it in the workplace.

I’ve been using it since last year, and it works great – even helped me find a file on my machine when I was sure I didn’t have it…

Robert X. Cringely on Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! Music Engine, and Apple’s iTunes

Robert X. Cringely has an interesting analysis of the week where Microsoft’s chairman Bill Gates leakes some information on the upcoming XBox 360, Google starts testing the Google Web Accelerator, Yahoo! releases their Music Engine and a $6.99 subscription service, and somebody claiming to be an insider at Apple leakes some information on the upcoming iTunes movie service.

Three articles about TiVo

MediaDialyNews published a series of three articles about Tivo, “What TiVo People Know”:

  1. What TiVo People Know, Part I
  2. What TiVo People Know, Part II
  3. What TiVo People Know, Part III – A Modest Proposal

The first article roughly describes what has been available in the past to record programs, and how the TiVo differs from it. The second article describes more of the benefits of the TiVo. The third acrticle is the most interesting – it describes how to adopt the ability to skip commercials to a new advertising strategy.

The articles are written by Cece Forrester, a media planner in Chicago.

Funny Firefox video’s

Check out these funny video’s from Mozilla Europe: