Ixquick

EFF praised Ixquick for its “truly excellent privacy policy,” which experts regularly cite as the best in the industry. Ixquick is the only major search engine that does not record users’ IP addresses or make a record of their searches, as verified by a third-party auditing firm. EFF also praised Ixquick for supporting HTPPS, a security feature that prevents data from being eavesdropped upon as it moves across the internet.

The HTTPS protocol encrypts users’ search queries to protect against eavesdropping by a users’ local Internet service provider, as well as eavesdropping by any third parties. For example, a user in China could search for “Tiananmen Square” without Chinese authorities being able to intercept the query. Of the major search engines, only Ixquick offers the feature.

“We hope that some day, the major search engines can catch up with Ixquick,” said EFF technical analyst Peter Eckersley, noting that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft do not offer the HTTPS service.

Computer users concerned about privacy should also be aware that Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft record every search query made through their websites and link them to the user’s IP address and cookies–a practice that has come under fire from both privacy and government groups. In contrast, Ixquick allows for fully anonymous, private searches, since it does not record any personal data on its users.

People wishing to use the Ixquick search engine can go to http://www.ixquick.com.

They may also utilize the HTTPS encryption feature by going to https://www.ixquick.com

(Note the addition of the letter “s” after “http” in the HTTPS encrypted site.)

*The Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) is a leading privacy watchdog group that employs an expert staff of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists. Through legal action, education, media, and legislative efforts, EFF has championed the public interest in critical battles affecting digital rights since 1990. EFF’s analysis and comments about HTTPS, including statements about Ixquick, can be found online at: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/several-facts-about-

Source: Ixquick

Same as a TV program, the show host will guide you through the most interesting and relevant web sites & videos within our interactive show-board interface. Our motivation is to provide you with a smart, simple & fun on-line experience. We encourage you to PLAY shows, create your own shows and share with your friends. Qwiji is in Beta, so your participation and feedback is vital to our success, go a’head and join us. Qwiji is on the move, we’ll keep uploading new features, Web-Show genres and much more, so stay tuned.

Web Shows are the only way to watch the web. Yes, just like you watch a TV program on your TV set, the Web Show allows you to lay back and watch content, videos, images that were gathered by your host, edited and annotated by the host. Besides the smart concept, it also looks great ! Web Shows are displayed in Qwiji Board (or Qboard as we call it) which give you the ultimate experience and control.

We’ve been active in the web arena before someone called it 1.0 and we’ll probably keep using no matter what name it gets. We’re passionate about the web, the creation, the communities, the wisdom and creativity. However, one thing in particular disturbs us most: the browsing experience. Have you noticed that the major change in the browsers in the last 15 years was the tabs functionality? We believe that the browser should provide a much more intuitive, rich & entertaining experience. We will strive to re-invent your web browsing.

Erez Shemesh
Co-Founder, CEO
Yaniv Hakim
Co-founder, CTO

Search Parks with Parkr!

After many months of incubation here we are!

My little child is born: Parkr!

The Amusement Park Reviewer.

So let’s test and review!

1. “Off the Wall” (1979, Michael Jackson)
2. “Thriller” (1982, Michael Jackson)
3. “Triumph” (1980, The Jacksons)
4. “Dancing Machine” (1974, The Jackson 5)
5. “Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5″ (1969, The Jackson 5)
6. “Destiny” (1978, The Jacksons)
7. “Third Album” (1970, The Jackson 5)
8. “Got to Be There” (1972, Michael Jackson)
9. “Maybe Tomorrow” (1971, The Jackson 5)
10. “Invincible” (2001, Michael Jackson)

According to the SF Gate.com

Source: tenmojo.com here

The word symbol is derived from the Greek word symbolon. In ancient Greece it was a custom to break a slate of burned clay into several pieces and distribute them within the group. When the group reunited the pieces were fitted together (Greek symbollein). This confirmed the members belonging to the group.

An ideogram is a special type of symbol, a graphic sign for an idea or concept. For instance, the graph represents the G-clef in musical notation and the switch for treble range on sound reproducing appliances. It is therefore an ideogram.

36:11 · An alchemical sign for gold-leaf or gold-foil, i.e. gold that has been pressed so thin that it can float on the breath. Gold was the only metal that the alchemists could hammer out to such extreme thinness.
Compare with 2609 and 2415 for gold.

Alphabetic letters are not considered ideograms proper in this work. But as the first letter in the alphabet A not only is a sign for a specific sound, but also denotes the idea of something that comes first. Consider expressions like “A grade” and “A-team”. A may therefore be regarded as a sign.

A sign is called iconic if it has some perceivable likeness to what it denotes. In the opposite case, it is called aniconic.

However, whether iconic or aniconic, graphical symbols and signs that are not pictures of easily recognized objects are called non-pictorial. These non-pictorial symbols and signs are the subject matter of Symbols.com.

2,500 signs are included in Symbols.com!

Sources: Symbols.com / MakeUseOf.com

Spezify è un motore di ricerca visuale che propone un modo più intuitivo di ricercare e visualizzare le informazioni.

E’ capace di ricercare contenuti tipo immagini, testo e video all’interno di siti come: Yahoo, Twitter, Amazon, Ebay e Bing.

I risultati sono presentati similmente a degli articoli di giornale e nella parte alta della pagina sono suggerite delle parole correlate alla query inserita.

Attraverso l’utilizzo della tastiera è poi possibile navigare e visionare tutte le informazioni in una singola pagina.

Spezify è un motore di ricerca visuale, ideato per ottimizzare le ricerche online filtrando i risultati e fornendo solo i contenuti migliori, pronti per essere consultati in maniera veloce ed intuitiva.

From CaronteWeb here.

Doc Fetcher est un programme gratuit et opensource pour Windows ou Linux (où est la version Mac OS ?). Il vous permet donc d’accéder rapidement aux documents stockés sur votre ordinateur en tapant quelques mots-clés.

Comment ça marche ?

Tout simplement comme un vrai moteur. Doc Fetcher va crawler l’ensemble de vos dossiers et récupérer les différents fichiers qui s’y trouvent afin de constituer un index. La première fois, cela risque de prendre du temps (apparemment, le site indique 1 min pour 200 fichiers environ). J’ai cependant noté quelques fonctions intéressantes comme la recherche de termes directement à l’intérieur du code source (pour les fichiers HTML par exemple). Après cette indexation, vous pourrez personnaliser les critères de prises en comptes lors de la recherche.

Ci-dessous la liste des formats de fichier supportés :

• HTML and plain text (both customizable)
• Portable Document Format (pdf)
• Microsoft Office (doc, xls, ppt)
• Microsoft Office 2007 (docx, xlsx, pptx)
• OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress (odt, ods, odg, odp)
• Rich Text Format (rtf)
• AbiWord (abw, abw.gz, zabw)
• Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (chm)
• Microsoft Visio (vsd)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (svg)

J’ai pu rapidement tester sous Parallel mais j’ai quelques soucis de ralentissement général avec le programme. Si vous avez l’occasion de tester Doc Fetcher, que ce soit avec l’interface complète ou simplifiée, n’hésitez pas à déposer votre avis dans les commentaires.

From the RamenosBlog here.