Archive for January, 2005

Google adds video search

Posted in Technology Trends, Search on January 25th, 2005

Google’s new video search allows users to search recent TV shows. It shows screen captures and text from the show. Searching for Jack Bauer revealed last night’s episode of 24.

BBC offers five new Sherlock Holmes stories

Posted in Literature, Sherlock Holmes on January 24th, 2005

The BBC has made available online five new Sherlock Holmes tales, to either read or listen to. Interestingly they provided PDA versions, including PRC, PDB, and LIT formats, but no PDF version. If you are like me and read PDF files on your PocketPC, you can go to the Printer-friendly page and print them using your own PDF creation software. Such as PDFCreator, which is available for free.