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A few weeks ago I received this press release from Paragon Software Group about the latest version of NTFS for Linux: Paragon Software Group, the technological leader in innovative data security and data management technology, announced that it has released Paragon NTFS for Linux 6.0, the latest in its family of software. The product’s purpose …
From USA Today: In the name of MySpace, YouTube and the holy Internet, amen. A number of religious websites are aping the names and styles of some of the Web’s most popular sites. Chief among them are GodTube.com, a video-sharing site for Christians, and MyChurch.org, a social networking realm. The explosion of niche social networking …
Several weeks ago I received this press release from ExtraLabs Software: The ExtraLabs Software company, a developer of software for creating RSS feeds, announced the new release of the Image Assistant graphic editor that has some new features improving the usability of the product. These new improvements take into account users’ most urgent needs. Image …
From USA Today: News Corp.’s MySpace social network launched on Thursday a service that scours the Web for news stories and lets users rate them, aiming to attract more advertisers to the Rupert Murdoch-controlled company. The service, called MySpace News, resembles a mix of Google’s Google News, which collects stories and arranges them based on …
This week’s tip is about controlling the brightness of your background when using your on camera flash. Controlling the brightness of your background relies on a little technical knowledge, the inverse square law. The brightness of the flash output is relative to the inverse square of the distance from the flash from the subject. Sounds …
Last week I shared a tip about a free utility from Microsoft that lets you use an ISO image of a CD as if it were a real CD. I was asked how to create an ISO image, so I did some research into some available software. There are commercial titles such as WinImage and …
From the New York Times: The cruel randomness of celebrity became clear to Tom Calver in February, when the cheese got a romantic Valentine in the mail and he did not. “What has he done?†Mr. Calver asked of the cheese in question, a 44-pound round of cheddar currently maturing on his farm in this …
PC Magazine has an article that reviews the various online pay movie services: Chances are that you’ve watched those amusing three-minute viral videos on YouTube and other sites. Cute. But what if you’re in the mood for some longer-format entertainment at a higher image quality, maybe even featuring professional talent? The Internet can help there …
Every once in a while I click on the link in one of those phishing emails to see what happens. I have no plans to give any personal information, but it’s interesting to see the sites and how they try to duplicate the look of legitimate sites. The other day I clicked on a link …
From Guardian Unlimited: A hundred visitors to an internet chatroom last month witnessed a Shropshire father of two hang himself in front of his webcam. Some of Kevin Whitrick’s fellow chatters must have imagined he was play-acting, but others were happy to goad him into killing himself. As Whitrick’s face turned purple and he began …