Spy Journal 3.0 Filtering the web for you

With EatLime, you can easily share any file, including videos, pictures, and documents with your friends and family much faster. Thre reason EatLime is so fast is that your friends are able to start downloading your shared files as soon as you start uploading them. You can send as many files as you like and the active files on the system stay as long as they're in demand. Access is from anywhere at anytime. You can even use EatLime to send files through email and IM. It also has the ability to import all your contacts from Gmail, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo, and you need never type your friends' full Email addresses again!

This article was sparked by reading Cathy's post yesterday titled "Not the real World". In it she muses about how people in the non connected world, those who don't participate as bloggers, or other viral networking systems that the Internet is composed of tend to share a narrow, often inaccurate view of reality, current events, people and ideas.

I think Cathy is absolutely right and I want to explore some reasons as to why.

Hooray! Drupal 6 has been released. Digg is going crazy and the drupal.org  site seems to be under some pressure! However I was able to download it easily. Now to install in a test server and start playing testing.

Dries Buytaert linked to where Greg Knaddison has prepared a screencast displaying the new features. If you can't be bothered watching that then check out my short list below.

Some of the new features include:

Firefox has several security settings you can use to keep your computer safe. There are also hundreds of extensions that you can add to give you further privacy & security. Lisa Hoover has written a great article on a few of these extensions. For example a good way to protect your computer is to prevent the browser from using JavaScript at Web sites without permission, the NoScript extension makes every site that uses JavaScript ask your permission before running it. It can render some JavaScript-heavy sites unreadable but provides a whitelist of acceptable sites that you can add to speed up your surfing experience.

At Jethro the extensions we always install on any new pc are, Plain old favourites, Session Manager, Tab Browser Preferences and Delicious.