nathan jara

I was given a link to a crazy cool website by a family member today. The site is called WolframAlpha. It’s a search engine-ish website that allows you to type in any kind of calculation, measurement, geographical location etc and provides for you a plethora of information about that particular thing. It’s also smart enough to dissect your input if you type your query in particular terms or in question form and make educated estimates when your input could have several different matches. An introductory video is available to provide a look at the power of the website. And if you want it for your iPhone, don’t worry, “there’s an app for that.”

I’ve been using flickr to share photos for a while now. I’ve never been really thrilled with it though. The service only allows you to upload so many photos before you have to sign up for a paid subscription to use more space. Pretty poopy. Over the past few nights, I’ve been converting over to Google’s Picasa. It’s pretty sweet! You have 1 gig of space to start, which is awesome. I also downloaded the Picasa Web Album application which makes organizing and uploading photos a breeze. The one feature I really like is the ability to resize photos during the upload process. That way I don’t have to do it myself :) And I just found the Faces feature which is crazy cool. Check out my uploads so far.

For a little more on the whole Facebook privacy issue, just came across this nifty chart created by Matt McKeon. He has provided and interesting look at how the privacy of information has changed over the past 5 years. The data speaks for itself.

Looks like it’ll be a good summer at the movies….