A Turkish Court recently ordered that YouTube be banned because of a video that insulted the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. It was no joke to them, and now YouTube fans in Turkey are going to have to go without their favorite videos.

Google Blogoscoped posted a screenshot of what people in Turkey see if they attempt to pay a visit. Bloggers in Turkey say they will fight this, and Boing Boing has posted a

Anybody can call themselves a doctor, but only a handful have done the work and can prove it. Really, you could call yourself anything you’d like so that you sound distinguished. That’s exactly what one of Wikipedia’s contributor’s did. Ryan Jordan claimed to be a professor of theology to give himself some credibility, yet he was a 24 year-old college dropout.

Now Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales is saying that they’re going to implement a plan where

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about a guy on one serious adventure, and his website where he was documenting his journey.  Cangooglehearme.com definitely caught my attention, and ever since then, I’ve gone back occasionally to get the latest scoop, and to see if he revealed his big idea yet.

Aaron

Would you like to know what the weather is going to be like for your area? You could always use a gadget on your desktop to give you a generalized forecast, watch the weather on TV, or you could use Weather.com and get real-time weather for your street!

Weather.com has partnered with Microsoft to bring you real-time weather.  Using Microsoft’s Visual Earth, you can zoom right into your street to see exactly what it’s going

How many popup boxes do you see in a day’s time? I’m not talking about the popups that most browsers these days will automatically block, instead I’m talking about the popups that ask you things such as “would you like to update your browser?” These are things that you don’t necessarily need to take action on now, but currently a window will popup asking what you want to do.

Mozilla is looking to make things a little

Google has stepped up their game with Google Desktop Search.  They’ve made several improvements to it, and just released Google Desktop 5 beta. People use Google Desktop Search as an easy, convenient way to search email, web pages that you’ve viewed, music, photos, and other things. 

One of the first things you’ll notice is that the side-bar has a new look and feel.  It samples the color of the

Web Browser Wednesday

There are all kinds of Firefox tips and tricks available on the Web, and when I come across some of the cool ones (many in forums) I jot them down real quick. That way I don’t have to post about just one of the tricks, and instead I can show you a whole compilation of them. Previously I put together lengthy Firefox 2 tweak guide, and