March 12, 2010 |
Interesting Web Sites
OK, you’ve heard of MySpace. Been there done that.
In fact it’s become fashionable to make fun of MySpace in favor of Facebook, the flavor-of-the-month social networking site.
Now get ready for MyOuterSpace.
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March 11, 2010 |
Blogging
I just found out about a new blog aggregation site called BloggerDen.
It bills itself as Digg for bloggers. As opposed to Digg, which covers general topics with an emphasis on technology, BloggerDen is geared toward blogger-specific issues.
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March 10, 2010 |
Digital Life
More and more professors are banning laptops from their classrooms. This is coming at a time when more and more colleges are also requiring students to buy laptop computers.
What do you think?
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March 9, 2010 |
Interesting Web Sites
One of the most annoying things about Windows is software installation. In Linux if you want to install 10 software packages, you just click what software you want in the package installer, and it downloads and installs them all.
But in Windows, you go to 10 different websites, download and save their installers, run the setup programs, and click through the steps. Annoying like crazy.
Ninite is a website that lets you download a combined installer for some of the most popular free Windows programs.
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March 8, 2010 |
Digital Life
Facebook is one of the largest sites on the Internet.
But most people don’t know the story of how it was founded.
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March 6, 2010 |
News
If you’ve been planning to buy a new LCD panel or TV, you might want to factor in the effect of the earthquake in Taiwan on LCD prices.
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March 5, 2010 |
Apple/Mac
People like to say that the Apple only has a few percent market share.
But Quantcast has a new survey out that says 11% of online users are using Macintoshes.
I think that’s pretty amazing how Apple’s usage has went up recently.
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March 4, 2010 |
Digital Life
David Risley has a blog post on what he views as the top five mistakes people make on Twitter.
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March 3, 2010 |
Linux/Unix
Chromium is the open-source version of the Google Chrome web browser. It excludes some of the URL-tracking stuff in Chrome.
Here’s how to install it on Ubuntu.
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March 2, 2010 |
News
Google has bought Picnik, a free online image editing website.
Picnik has grown to become one of the most popular web-based photo editing sites.
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