What in the World?

Here is this week's 'What in the World?' contest. The first person to guess what this is a photo of in the comments section wins a copy of Yonder Mountain String Band's most recent CD, The Show. Have a great weekend!

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Nielsen TV Ratings to Include Online Viewing

Slashdot, reports that several sources say Nielsen TV ratings will soon include online viewing for their ratings. It's funny to think that TV ratings are only based on actual TV viewing now, especially considering most major networks allow you to watch their shows anytime, right on their website.

The interesting thing is that Nielsen won't count the online viewing for ratings unless it contains a certain number of advertisements, which will knock off the hugely popular site, Hulu. Not only that, but the networks own websites won't count as they don't contain enough advertisements either. Slashdot speculates that Hulu may add more advertisements, but that it would mean the death of the site... Let's hope they don't blast us with too many ads!

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What In the World?

Did anyone else read World magazine as a kid? It was National Geographic for the younger crowd. One of my favorite columns was entitled "What in the World." It was a collection of uncommon photos of common items. The challenge was to identify the items in the photo. I'm bringing it back here on the SRG InfoTech Blog. The first person to identify the photo correctly in this blog post will get a free DialGlobal Wireless Mouse. Answers must appear in the comments for this post.

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How to Convert an Entire Website to PDF

We are in the throws of completing a website refresh for a client. As part of our process we need to comparatively evaluate the current site to the IA we have created for the new site. We will match on a page by page basis the old site with our current work. Ultimately this will ensure we don't miss anything. As you can imagine, having a single document that itemizes every single page would be incredibly useful. Enter Adobe Acrobat. After doing a little digging online, I discovered a great feature within Acrobat that will crawl an entire website, and convert every single page to a PDF. In Acrobat Pro 9 or higher, click 'File' then 'Create PDF from Web page'. This will bring up a dialog box. Enter the URL of the site you want to convert, and click the globe icon next to 'Capture Multiple Levels'. Click the 'Get Entire Site' check box, click ok, and away you go. Keep in mind a large site will take several hours to convert. The sites we are working on are about 300 pages total, and they have been converting for several hours already. So there you have it!

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How to Hide from Google?

A Dreadie/Hacker/Coder known only as Moxie Marlinspike has a new tool for you. He has created a plug-in for Firefox called Googlesharing. Googlesharing routes all of your data through a proxy server where your information gets jumbled with a number of fake identities running on his proxy server. This sounds really cool on the surface, tut this little nugget makes me think that the tool really isn't that worthwhile. "users can exploit any of Google's offerings that don't require logins, such as search, maps or news, without allowing Google to assemble a profile of their activities that can be used for advertising targeting--or, as some users might fear, information that could be subpoenaed by government investigators." So that means if you use Gmail and remain logged in, then use maps, or news, or search, this tool does you no good. Oh well. The Googlesharing logo needs some work too. Someone should probably let Moxie know that when you put a squiggly tail on an arrow, it doesn't look like an arrow any more.

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Bing May Become Default Search Engine for the iPhone

Huh? What? Yes, you read the title correctly. Apple is in talks with Microsoft about making it the default search engine on the iPhone. Ever since the Google Chief Executive, Eric Schmidt, left the Apple board, Google and Apple have been building up the hate for each other and this is just adding more fuel to the fire.

According to the article, Apple sees Google as a direct threat with their kajillion new Android powered phones. Since WinMo isn't grabbing a lot of the market these days, Apple sees them as a tool they can use against Google. Hmm....

I feel like we are still in the calm before the storm. 2010 should be an interesting year!

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