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- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube (and its users)
- EIC podcast: Search wars; Viacom vs. YouTube and its usersViacom's Data DragnetIt seems to me that their is no justification for allowing this data dragnet.Whether dynamic or static, IP addresses can be traced back to many of the original users through data from Internet service providers. The Whitter article cited...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- NoScript vs. Internet Explorer 8 Filters
- NoScript vs. Internet Explorer 8 FiltersThink About End UsersI've tried, a couple of times, to use NoScript in my normal surfing, and it became unbearable quickly. Too many sites were disfunctional. MLB.com is a good example.It's one thing to make an add-in for technical users that they can tweak on...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Getaway day: How to secure your laptop for holiday travel
- It's getaway day and as we prepare to hit the road, trudge through airport security and snag that car rental, spare a thought for the valuable data that travels with you on that trusty old laptop. According to a recent study by the Ponemon Institute, more than...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammersIt is impossible to manage...networks the size of Google with technology alone. It takes a real live person. Now we can expect more spam coming from these networks. Spam that will be harder to filter. If these companies can't manage their networks in...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency
- Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergencyThere are no engineersTheir parents made sure they went into business and got MBAs due to the wonders of globalization!Too many chiefs, not enough indians.-MWhy not just drill for more oil?I think it is simply amazing how everyone in Congress is standing around...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- New Microsoft Office subscription bundle to hit in mid-July
- New Microsoft Office subscription bundle to hit in mid-JulyVery nice comboI can't wait for computer manufacturers and builders to start bundling this with systems. Seems like a good idea - like software assurance for home users.RE: New Microsoft Office subscription bundle to hit in mid-JulyI think you can have...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Now I know we're in a recession
- Now I know we're in a recessionPricingYou can't sell coffee at those prices in a mainstrean coffee chain on a long term basis. Certainly not when it's either a coffe or a gallon of regular unleaded :-) A Sophie's choice indeed.Well, Starbucks in Vienna, Austria, EU, does (Starbucks is more...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- DirectPrompt (exe)
- Direct Prompt is teleprompting software that was written with Microsoft Direct X and .NET technology for the Windows Operating System. It allows for ultra-smooth, flicker-free scrolling text by harnessing the raw power of your video card. Direct Prompt is the ideal solution for anyone searching for an affordable prompting solution...
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- Spectro Sound Card Signal Generator (exe)
- Generate a variety of static and sweep signals using your PC sound card. The signals that can be generated includes: sine, triangle, square, sawtooth and white noise. A linear, exponential and logarithmic sweep signal can be specified within a specific frequency range and time duration. The sweep frequency can be...
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- DigiPaint for Adobe After Effects (exe)
- 2DPaint DigiPaint changes your video into animation drawn with a pencil imitating handicraft. Plug-in allows you to imitate a black-and-white pencil sketch as well as a color picture. The main difference of DigiPaint from other programs of the same kind is that DigiPaint gives a surprisingly qualitative result similar to...
- Software downloads 2008-07-02
- BenQ V2400W
- The BenQ V2400W is the fourth 24-inch LCD we've reviewed this year and the third we'd recommend. The $600
- Product reviews 2008-07-01
- Part 2: Green tech and corporate ethics
- Just following up my post from yesterday about a new consulting service from IBM designed to examine the ethical weight of green technology practices. There's another white paper on the Web site for business process management software vendor Metastorm about the impact that surprise rethinking the way...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- What should your email archiving policy look like?
- What should your email archiving policy look like?Using ONE email acct. for workLooks like it's time to employ a 3rd part vendor or create your own content filter to block access to gMail, Hotmail, etc.In our school, we have decided to go through a 3rd party that works with us....
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language search
- Confirmed: Microsoft buys Powerset natural-language searchYes, It is..I think it is a right move.. Google's monopoly over search comes from the fact it has a great software the search engine. That's it, plain and simple. Only if Microsoft can offer better search results, then it can compute with Google. Offering...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Why computers fail
- Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses
- Not since the financial industry did a header off the high board into a mortgage pool filled with bad paper. It's been literally weeks since an American-based business sector looked this sick. I've been trying to keep up with the bloody saga of the Detroit auto makers and...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Asus Eee PC 901 (Windows XP)
- We've been impressed by the Asus Eee PC line from the very first 7-inch model in the fall of 2007, and it seems as if every time we turn around, there's a new version hitting store shelves. This 9-inch version, the
- Product reviews 2008-06-30
- Google curbs essay-writing service advertisements
- Corporations over time gain social responsibility for the products they release: Microsoft and their report abuse features, Facebook and their privacy settings, and now Google are adding more to the list. I spoke some time ago about plagiarism, more on a positive note, considering the use of...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
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