Zeroization What it is

Once you are through with the salacious details of the AOL user searches, you can move on to Wiki and see what the collective perverted mind is looking up.

Interested in what some randome luser decided to search for in AOL. Here is your chance. It’s another unique site by Andreas Wacker, who also brought you Blogsnow.

The recent casual, unintentional invasion of AOL user privacy highlights the vulnerability of every Google user. Every search is tracked, stored, etc. and with enough time and research those records can easily be pointed back to an individual. The threat of the U.S. Government invading privacy through these means is also readily evident. However, there are solutions such as search proxies. Better yet, the use of a search engine not controlled by a private organization is another way the vulnerabilities could be avoided.

A major challenge to creating an independent search enginage is the question of how to replicate the massive resources brought to bear by a company like Google. Majestic 12 puts forth a potential solution: use distributed computing techniques for spidering. Details on the architecture are available, as is the client software should you wish to become a node. Most importantly, an alpha version of the search portal is operational.

Speedtest.net is a great, new tool for testing your ping, download, and upload speed against an number of servers located around the world.

Workfriendly is a useful little tool that makes your browser window and browsed web pages look like Microsoft Word. It could come in handy if you are surfing, say, at work.

TorrentFreak is reporting that Azureus (the best torrent client, IMHO) will be accepting is getting capital funding and will soon be adding a commercial content layer to the application. The question is, will they be able to pull this off without massive tissue rejection?

This neat little tweak might help you manage your Firefox memory better.