The Thoughtful Geek

These are my links for November 24th:

• Featured Greasemonkey User Script: Hide Google SearchWiki Buttons in Results – If you're finding Google's new SearchWiki ranking buttons are more annoying than useful, you can hide them using this Greasemonkey user script (a definite candidate for a Better Google extension). Are you customizing your results with SearchWiki, or just wishing those buttons weren't cluttering up your results? Let us know in the comments.
• phoneWreck » BlackBerry Storm – Review and Teardown – Being another first for BlackBerry, RIM has delved into the widely competed touchscreen market. Not wanting to be sucked in as “another iPhone wannabe” however, RIM has developed several unique technologies in an attempt to diverge from the traditional touchscreen stigma. So how does this phone actually fare in-hand, and how does it stack up to its competitors?
• Samsung shows a Full Color Flexible Oled used in a mobile phone – Samsung shows a new mobile phone prototype with an full color flexible OLED Display. In this amazing Video we can see some main flexible full color Oled display which you can fold to a small mobile phone. We have no technical data about this FOLED but if you see this video you are really inspired.
• The Media Equation – Google Seduces With Utility – NYTimes.com – My increasingly exclusive relationship with Google started with search, of course, when I switched from Yahoo years ago. Eventually I accepted an invitation to Gmail, with its oodles of storage and very granular search function, and it has oddly become my default database — deep, rich and personal.
• Super Micro Computer – A One-Man, or at Least One-Family, Powerhouse – NYTimes.com – At Super Micro Computer, cartons of parts are often stacked in the parking lot, exposed to the elements. The 15-year-old computer maker has grown to 850 employees but still tracks orders the old-fashioned way, relying on sales representatives to monitor each step from assembly to shipping.
• Google Chrome takes one-half of one percent of the Web browser market – SuperSite Blog – OneStat.com, the number one provider of real-time intelligence web analytics, today reported that Google's Chrome browser has only a small global usage share of 0.54 percent since the introduction.

  Microsoft's Internet Explorer dominates the browser market with a global usage share of 81.36 percent. In February the total global usage share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer was 83.27 percent. The most popular browser on the internet is Explorer 7 with a global usage share of 56.68 percent.

• Vista: Judge Orders Ballmer to Testify in ‘Vista Capable’ Class-Action Lawsuit – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in October that he had no knowledge of the "Vista Capable" debacle that's since spawned a class-action lawsuit, but a federal judge wants him to testify in the case anyway. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman smacked down Microsoft's earlier claims that Ballmer shouldn't have to testify, and wrote Friday that the plaintiffs had adequately shown the chair-throwing executive may have had "unique knowledge" of the disastrous "Vista Capable" PC program.
• Google SearchWiki Is Back. Here’s How To Kill It For Good. – Cheers were heard across the Internet earlier today when Google’s new SearchWiki search interface inexplicably vanished. Perhaps, just maybe, it was gone for good. Or at least when it returned it would have an opt out feature.

  Nope. Neither. It’s back and it’s still impossible to get out of it short of logging out of Google entirely. Lovely comments like the one above now scar Google’s once pristine search results page.