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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Computer
- Some Viruses Come Pre-Installed
- From iPods to navigation systems, some of today's hottest gadgets are landing on store shelves with some unwanted extras from the factory - pre-installed viruses that steal passwords, open doors for hackers and make computers spew spam.
- Right Back Where We Started
- Has the computer/Internet boom made us more productive? Apparently not.
- Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software
- Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.
- The Great Mac OS X Freeware List
- It’s a list of the best and most popular freeware for OS X.
- Computer Says Zeta-Jones is the Standard of Beauty
- A computer program developed by two scientists from the University of Technology in Sydney has selected actress Catherine Zeta-Jones as the ‘benchmark’ for beauty.
- Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008: the first cut
- ...although practically all contributors mention the value of free, Web 2.0 tools for their own personal learning, it is educators ...who seem to be leading the way by making far more use of a wide range of free, Web 2.0 tools for creating learning experiences for their students
- Windows Errors That Are Really Funny
- Pictures of Windows Errors That Are Really Funny
- Me.dium - a social web browsing experience
- Me.dium is a web browser plug-in for Microsoft's Internet Explorer that turns web browsing into a social experience. It gives you a personalized map of the Internet showing where you are, and what web sites your friends are visiting in real time.
- Impulsive Recycling Disorder - istartedsomething
- Ever since I’ve had more than 500GB of hard drive space, I’ve started collecting trash - that is, not clearing the Recycle Bin. My current Recycle Bin hasn’t been cleared since late December of 2007, and it’s bulging at over 33GB.
- Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data
- Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all.
- Is Sears Engaging in Criminal Hacking Behavior?
- "Join "My SHC Community" on Sears.com, and the company will install some pretty impressive spyware on your computer:..."
- Top 40 Photoshopped Images | The Best Article Every day
- Sometimes they can be funny, sometimes thought provoking, other times they just mess with your mind. They’ll always take your breath away though and make you wonder at the skills of the people that created them. The following images are our favourite Photoshopped images.
- Hardware Vs Software: Top 20 Tips To Keep Your System Faster
- "Follow these tips and you will definitely have a much faster and more reliable PC!"
- A better laptop stand for bed - Instructables - DIY
- Make a simple but incredibly useful Laptop Stand for around $15 and 30-60 minutes! Great for use in bed while typing, browsing, and especially watching movies.
- Drupal 6.0 released | drupal.org
- After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world.
- 10 Best Firefox Extensions for Web Development, Media,...
- For this feature, I want to share with you the latest, greatest extensions Firefox has to offer. I chunked the best of the best in four categories
- A computer shop's sales pitch: 'We remove Vista'
- After reading today's story about Windows Vista's first year, reader Bruce Finlayson of Seattle sent along this photo that he snapped in October outside a computer store in Milford, N.H. ...
- How Pirates Will Change The Entertainment Industry
- The time has come to address piracy with some real, sustainable solutions that consumers will support.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Computer News
- Free Tools to Manage New Year's Resolutions
- To reach the goals you've set out for yourself in '08, follow through each and every one of the next 365 days—several free tools can help you with just that.
- AA Batteries - 2 cell pack - Use Cases - usbcell.com
- USBCELL can be used in the home, when at play or in devices you use every day:
- The 5 most annoying programs on your PC
- Elephantware. That is what we are talking about. Bloated programs that make brand new PCs boot like Pentium 2s with 64 MBs of RAM.
- Top Best 55 Photoshop Tutorials For Professional Photographers
- ...here you are all the techniques that are mastered by all the professional photographers of the world.
- The 5 users you meet in hell (and one you'll find in heaven)
- Ah, end users. We sure do love them. Why, most of us wouldn't have jobs without them. But that doesn't mean users don't drive IT crazy sometimes, or maybe most of the time.
- ImageFlow 0.8
- Display images on a virtual carousel.
- Email And Cellphone Contacts Are The Real Social Graph
- For people over 30 (and probably even over 25) email IS the social graph.
- How to surf the web even if Internet Explorer is disabled
- All you have to do is launch a Windows application like Calculator, and then click the Help button. ...[then]...
- Open Source Living
- Welcome to Open Source Living, an archive of the Web's best Open Source software, applications and references for a zero-cost / top quality digital experience.
- Flipping the Linux switch: 5 tips every new Linux user should know - Download Squad
- ...we've been thinking about what we most wished we'd been told on our first foray into Linux-land.
- The perfect computer memory: quantum dots?
- The perfect memory would be nonvolatile like flash yet provide access faster than the current generation of DRAM. Quantum dots, with their nicely tunable electronic properties, look like they may fit the bill.
- Chyrp
- Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality.
- 7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic
- ...what kinds of posts should I write to get more links and traffic? here are some answers.
- Portal wins Onion pick for Game Of The Year at That VideoGame Blog
- The Onion’s AV Club has just released editor’s picks for top six games of the year. You might think that’s an odd number for a list, but even more peculiar are some of the picks.
- A Complete List Of Essential But Free Softwares for Windows
- Digital Inspiration has picked some of the best software programs and utilities for your Windows computer that are completely free and still extremely useful.
- 10 Sources for Free Computer Programming Courses Online
- Looking to increase your knowledge of computer programming? Here is a list of universities and other great sources that offer free computer programming courses online.
- Top 25 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers
- Top 25 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers
- Interactive Weather Presenting Kit
- A free [UK] CD to study the weather, and make weather maps, includes satellite images
- Google-powered mobile phones to make a February debut?
- Right now, it's what sits inside the phone that is most important.
- 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More!
- This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup.
- Virtual Earth Screen Saver
- Check out the Virtual Earth Screen Saver ...The screen saver reads Virtual Earth permalinks from RSS feeds and uses the Virtual Earth API to show Birdseye and satellite images
- Everex gPC: Full Review - Reviews by PC Magazine
- Aside from being cheap and unaffected by Windows viruses, there's not a lot to recommend in the Everex gPC.
- How to Become a Gmail Jedi Master
- Learn to master Gmail through the use of labels, filters, keyboard shortcuts, vacation autoresponders, and the new IMAP support.
- How you can help prevent spyware occurring?
- Follow these wise Internet security practices: