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Uncover The Internet

Archive for the ‘Science & Technology’ Category

March 28th, 2008

Domain Name Double Entendre

I uncovered this little gem of a post while reading an Issue #319 of the WXPNews e-mail newsletter. Their newsletter always includes a list of their “Fav Links”. This week one was included of another blog post that listed some domain names that have some unintended meanings if you rearrange the break in words […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 21st, 2008

Surf Canyon - Digging Deeper Into Search Results

Are you ever overwhelmed with the results displayed in a search engine? I can tell you from my own experience I rarely go past the first page or two of results in a search.
Surf Canyon, currently in beta, is a plug-in for your browser that helps you dig through the results and get […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

March 19th, 2008

Gmail Disposable E-mail Addresses

A friend of mine just sent me a link to this article about how you can take advantage of a feature of Gmail to create your own disposable e-mail addresses with your Gmail address.
If you have a Gmail address you can use ” . “’s and ” + “’s to make temporary e-mail addresses […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

March 10th, 2008

Bitstrips - Impromptu Online Comics

The buzz for most of the day yesterday at SXSW was the Keynote address of Mark Zuckerberg. Without getting into the drama of all of that, what I uncovered that was interesting is a website called Bitstrips.com. It’s a site that lets the online community create new characters for impromptu comic strips.
The comic above is […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 9th, 2008

Utterz - Be Herd

Sitting in a panel now talking about Utterz, which allows you to quickly post entries and blips to your blog, flickr, twitter and more.
The panel is discussing how mobile blogging empowers a community to develop the conversation around a topic.
Utterz is the first way you can instantly blog your experiences, thoughts and ideas, anywhere, […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 9th, 2008

SXSW Pulse - Sunday Coverage

It’s odd to say that I’m starting up the Sunday sessions of SXSW at 11:41am, but hey that’s the way these things happen I guess.
The keynote for today is Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook at 2pm. We’ll be heading over there at some point and and catching that, hopefully we can find a spot. […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 6th, 2008

McAfee SiteAdvisor

I just uncovered exactly what I was looking for just now. Some family members sent me an e-mail link and asked me why the site wasn’t working. The domain name is pohmnenazvanie.com, not your normal looking domain name so it raised my own suspicions.
What I was looking for was a site that would let […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

February 24th, 2008

Some Not So Common Error Messages

I can’t remember now where I came across these little error messages. Someone probably sent them to me in an e-mail and I figured a couple of them were funny enough to share.
What did we do before computers?

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By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

January 30th, 2008

New Poll - What are you paying for Internet

Fill out our new poll over there in the sidebar. I’m curious as to what everyone is paying for their Internet access.

What do you pay for your Internet access

< $10

$10 - $25

$26 - $35

$36 - $50

$51 - $60

$61 - $70

> $71

View Results

What kind of access do you have and pay for? I’m waiting on AT&T’s […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

January 8th, 2008

25 Skills Every Man Should Know

Answer these questions:
1.) Are you a man?
If you answered yes to the question above, you should be able to answer yes to the following questions as well:
Do you know how to…

… patch a radiator hose?
… protect your computer?
… rescue a capsized boater?
… frame a wall?
… retouch digital photos?
… back up a trailer?
… build a […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments