Welcome to Horton's Hints

Organize Your Desktop

graemehorton — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:04:13 +0000

Bumptop is a great free app for your Mac or PC. You can pay $20 for the Pro version which opens up more gestures and other options. It just became available for Mac and I have started to use it. So far so good. I love being able to throw a sticky on the wall [...]

Cheap Web Hosting

graemehorton — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:31:28 +0000

Want to start a website? Want cheap web hosting? Now is the time!! Until January 6th SiteGround is offering a great deal. $20.10 for a year of hosting and it includes a domain name. Its a great time to get started. Just follow the link below. I recommend SiteGround web hosting

The Amazing Opera – the browser not the singing

graemehorton — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:31:53 +0000

Just for kicks, I downloaded Opera (an open source web browser) not expecting too much. I was playing around with it for a little while and then I discovered this little thing called Opera Unite. Intrigued I had to try that out too. Opera uses Opera Unite to have built in applications directly into the [...]

Flight to Fabuland is Here!!

graemehorton — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:31:31 +0000

I just wanted to let you all know that there is a new book on the market. Many of you are thinking “why should I care?”, the reason you should is because a friend of mine is the co-author. You can check out more about it by clicking here. It is available in both hard [...]

Google Taking New Territory

graemehorton — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:17:33 +0000

Google is planning on stepping into the realm of operating systems. In late 2010, they are going to be releasing Chromium OS. Keep your eyes peeled for developer versions starting to circulate. They plan on being open source (free) so many may go this route. It is not yet know whether or not it will [...]

Sea Gooseberries in an Ocean Near You(probably)

graemehorton — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:37:28 +0000

This is a sea gooseberry (Phylum Ctenophora). If you are from the Pacific Northwest, I am certain that you have run into these at some point whether you noticed or not. They can be found all over the place, I have seen most of mine at the end of the pier in White Rock, BC. [...]

Leafy Sea Dragon

graemehorton — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:05:59 +0000

From the same family as sea horses, the leafy sea dragon is a rare but beautiful creature. It preys on shrimp and small fish but oddly enough has no teeth. Only found around the south half of Australia, efforts have been made to have them in public aquariums but with little success. They are very [...]

Spiders Coming Back to Life

graemehorton — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:17:22 +0000

In light of Halloween being just behind us. I thought it intriguing that I should discover an article about spiders that come back from “death”. Scientists studying the time it takes to kill a spider by drowning. After the spiders had “drown” (some being left in the water for over 40 hours) the researchers removed [...]

Vegetarian Spider

graemehorton — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:15:22 +0000

Above is a photo of the Bagheera kiplingi, a kind of jumping spider, that eats a plant bud from an acacia tree, which you may have heard of before due to its mutualism with ants. The spider jumps from leaf to leaf or branch to branch avoiding the ants and munching on buds of the [...]