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“WOT, is your web not filtered yet?”

gui — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:54:14 +0000

I have just found a really excellent Firefox add-on called ‘Web of Trust’ that’s a filtering tool that uses on its community of users to examine and rank websites for content relevance and safety. Using humans is certainly better than relying on algorithms for content assessment. It utilises a colour coded scorecard with four main criteria; Trustworthiness, Vendor reliability, Privacy and Child Safety.

When you Google a search it goes away and checks its community ranked database and lights up the results in a classic ‘traffic light’ coding; Red is bad, Amber means be cautious and Green is good. This is an excellent product that works across a wide range of browsers with plug-ins available for IE, Firefox and Chrome.

Do you bit and help build a ‘Web of Trust’!

Ninite is a great timesaver…

gui — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:45:29 +0000

Recently I had to complete a thorough rebuild of my laptop and came across this really great application called Ninite. Like most people I had a collection of applications that needed to be re-installed. So I simply just went to the web site and selected all the programs I needed. The software on offer is neatly laid out into sections including Web Browsers, Messaging, Media, Imaging and so on. When you have finished selecting your software then click on ‘Get Installer’ and just leave alone to get on installing everything you’ve asked for.

Simples….saved no end of time!

Are you chatting via Trillian yet?

gui — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:50:07 +0000

I’ve recently checked out Trillian Astra 4 a really smart multi-protocol chat client. It supports most of the popular instant-messaging and social networks including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, AIM, Google Talk, Facebook, Twitter, Skype plus of course POP and IMAP email.

The slick interface allows you to chat by text, audio and video so give it a go today! It is currently only available for Windows, web and the iPhone but currently a MAC version is under development.