I had really bad experiences with them in the past. I have been convincing my friends and family to leave AOL.

I don't have any sort of mobile phone internet thingie, but this sounds cool:

Google Mobilizer makes any web page mobile-friendly

If your favorite web site doesn’t offer a mobile version fit for viewing on your phone or PDA (ahem), pop the URL into the Google Mobilizer.

With or without images, the Mobilizer will display a stripped down mobile-friendly version of your page. Bookmark the Mobilizer on your phone for easy on-the-fly conversion.

For those who could use this, I'm curious as to how well it works.

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Here's the actual Google Mobilizer site: [link]

Works great with this site! (posting from my phone right now)

that's very cool. I don't use my phone for browsing a whole lot, but I'll have to remember that link.

(And back to the keyboard, since posting on a phone is difficult and annoying.)

The site loads *much* faster through the Google interface than it does by entering the URL directly -- all the styling information is stripped out, and you have the option to not display images. (Making the main difficulty the fact that I normally read 50 posts per page -- on a phone, that's a LOT of scrolling. But changing it to 5 worked like a dream.)

I'll have to play with this later - and maybe hook up my Wacom tablet....

Search By Drawing: Meet Retrievr & Search By Sketch Demos From Purdue & Princeton

First discovered by Tara (and also blogged by Barry, Philipp, and John) is an experimental search tool called retrievr that allows the user to find related Flickr images by drawing a sketch. Barry writes that it doesn't work too well while Philipp is more postitive. Tara notes it works well for browsing.

Does anyone have any tips on how to make torrents download a leetle faster? I use Azureus.

Erin,

I've found in the "Options" Connections tab, change the incoming TCP/UDP listen port to something outside of the default range. Many sharers don't use those ports becaue those are the base ones the MPAA/RIAA/Etc. check.

I set it for a random number between 40000 and 65550, but I don't think that's based on any really good reason. I've used my zipcode.

There is also an Azeurus WIKI with tips beyond and maybe contradicting my own: [link]

My Tungsten T5 case just broke. The spindle that you slide into the left side of the PDA has disappeared.

It's a good case, but before I replaced it with an identical one, I was wondering--what sorts of cases do you guys use for your PDAs? Hard, soft, what?

Thanks, Daniel. It was set at 50000, but I went ahea and changed it...to my zip, good idea!...anyway.