Cuil - The New Internet's Coolest Search Engine

Many of you know Google, many of you know Yahoo and many of you know MSN Search. So what's Cuil? A Wikipedia entry tell us what:

Cuil (pronounced [kuːl], "cool", according to the creators) is a search engine that organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results. It claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages. It went live on July 28, 2008.

Cuil's privacy policy, unlike that of other search engines, says it does not store users’ search activity or IP addresses.

Cuil is managed and developed largely by former employees of Google: Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier, who has since quit the company. The CEO and co-founder, Tom Costello, has worked for IBM and others. The company raised $33 million from venture capital firms including Greylock.

Well, it does seem like a promising search engine, but will it be able to build a war against Google? At the moment that seems quite unlikely, as Google has so many features and services avaible, but only time will tell.

Regards,
Young Geek

Pimpin' your TI graphic calculator

I've had a TI graphic calculator for quite some time now and there hasn't been much use of it as it's only used for mathematic and physics aswell as chemistry. Well, I've used the software TI Connect (The software that helps you connecting the calc to your computer) for some time now and I've discovered that there is a world of calcs all over the Internet! From Games to Cheating in exams (though I highly discourage the last one) programs there is almost everything!

Some of my mates have been wandering around with their calculators copying games from calc to calc so I decided to investigate a bit as I'm quite considered one of the best Computer Engineer wannabe of my school. What was my surprise when I found a site with lots and when I mean LOTS I do mean lots of programs for your beloved calculator! The site is as follows: www.ticalc.org. It has a lot of information on calculators as well as programs and games for them.

The most pleasant games, however, require the installation of a "shell" (being one of the most known the "MirageOS" also avaible for download at ticalc.org) that permits the running of assembly programmed applications and of course those include RPGs, FPSs (!!!), platform and puzzle games! Good luck with your installations and pleasant time spent with your dear calculator!

Regards,
Young Geek

Computer Security - Virus free

Many people have come to me over the years and asked all those common questions:

"What's the best AntiVirus?"
"What's the best Anti-Spyware?"
"What's the best Firewall?"

I try to answer those carefully, because many know that there's no 100% secure and fail-proof solution. However, there is a website that has been saving computer lives for some years now and I feel I owe its creators something so I thought I should write something about it.
The website is www.virustotal.com and its a webscanning interface. Not only it checks your files under 20mb (megabytes) with 36 DIFFERENT Anti-Viruses, but it also gives you wise information on api importing and kernel usage!

Here's a mini tutorial about it:

Step Click Browse and choose the file you want to scan on the popped up window:



After that, Hit Submit:



Wait until the file is submitted:



If your file is queued just wait until your first in line:



After waitting paciently, You'll have your wanted report:



As you can see only some Anti-Viruses appear on the screenshot, but if you scroll down there are the 36.

As for offline scanning and Internet Security, I highly recommend:

Anti-Virus: Avast or Kaspersky

Firewall: Comodo Personal Firewall, Zone Alarm Firewall or Kaspersky Suite Firewall

Anti-Spyware: Lavasoft Ad-ware, Spybot Search & Destroy and Kaspersky Suite Anti-Spyware.

Greetings,
Young Geek

RC Zeppelin/Blimp

As being the first post in my blog, I'm going to tell you about my current endeavours.

Me and a friend started thinking about building an RC Zeppelin, we put together a list of what we'd need and we started looking for shops that would sell all of those components.
The list was as follows:

1 Speed Controller
2 Motors
1 Receiver (3 channels)
1 Transmitter
1 LiPo battery
and of course the inflable.

We thought about the inflable first, but for some reason it is the easiest part. We thought about either making it with balsa wood and thin plastic or buying a spare from Ready2Fly blimps all over the internet. We're still in the process of designing it and finding better prices for the components.

You can see what we pretend in following video (aswell as a short story about zeppelin aviation):



Thank you, wemperor (AKA Andreas) for all of your help and for the video posted here.

Greetings,
Young Geek