Probably old news to you, but a few days ago I stumbled upon ‘WolframAlpha’.
It is not a search engine that coughs up a bunch of websites you have to wade through, it’s more a knowledge base that basically gives you the answer you are looking for. You can throw a lot of different questions at it, from solving mathematical equasions, via statistic/demographic data to existentialistic questions (are we alone, does God exists), and the lot inbetween.
Ofcourse it is not a replacement for Google and other search engines, also not a replacement for Wikipedia…….but maybe the three of them could be regarded as the ‘holy trinity’ to find/access data on the net.
Go checkout: ‘WolframAlpha’
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Sorry, the new iPod Nano design is a failure….
“Stop van Ternaaien”, Augustus 2010
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With the help of a plugin for WordPress my blog entries are now also Tweeted (BuihSteems).
I’ve been playing around with the iPad for some time now and I’m less and less using Safari (at least directly) to browse the web (I’m also less and less using my desktop computer for that).
First I started using Pulse to read websites via rss feeds, but since a few days I’m using Flipbook. Many websites also tweet websites updates as with rss. Pulse is a very nice rss client, but Flipbook is taking it one step further as it presents the content as a paper, periodical, magazine, glossy. To summarize: Pulse is a programmers approach, Flipbook is the art-director approach how to display website updates.
Ofcourse, indirectly you still use Safari in a way, or the core webkit component.
Imho, apps like Pulse and Flipbook reinvented the webbrowser and I would not be surprised if these apps also will migrate from the iPad to regular desk/laptop systems.
…my summer holiday will start.
Hopefully we have as good as weather as the day when I took below photo. Time again for some R&R and doing a few walks with a gastronomical start, mid and/or end 
Sippenaeken, 2010
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My employer installed an airco system some month ago. Last week it might have proven to be one of the best investments in productivity.
