Monthly archives: July, 2007

Your first girlfriend — and the other things search engines store about you

From ComputerWorld: What if there were a giant database that contained your hidden insecurities, embarrassing medical questions and the fact that you still think from time to time about your high school girlfriend? Well, such a data store does exist — if you’ve ever plugged such private topics into a search engine. The fact is, …

Where are your high-tech manners?

From CNN: Just because you live in a high-tech world doesn’t mean your manners can sink to new lows when using your personal technology, experts say. “No doubt there’ve always been stinkers from the start of time,” says Honore Ervin, co-author of “The Etiquette Grrls: Things You Need to Be Told” and “More Things You …

New Paragon Drive Copy 8.5

Paragon Software has released a new version of their Drive Copy software, version 8.5: Paragon Software Group, the technological leader in innovative data security and data management technology, announces the release of Drive Copy 8.5 – the ideal software for real-time hard disk copy, personal data and applications migration, disk-to-disk backup, basic and advanced hard …

Strobist.com – Lighting information for everyone – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

I would like to thank everyone for their patience over the past little while when I was getting married. I know that the tips had stopped, but hopefully the reviews Graham included in the newsletter were beneficial. I had very little activity on my own website in that time as well and have resumed regular …

14 Personalized Homepages Compared, Feature by Feature

I’ve seen this mentioned in a couple of places, but Mashable has an article that compares 14 different personalized home pages. The homepages are: Netvibes Pageflakes iGoogle MyYahoo yourminis WebWag Schmedley Eskobo Windows Live Favoor Gritwire Inbox Protopage It’sAStart I haven’t heard of a bunch of these, but I’ll probably check them out now that …

Televison History

I came across this interesting web site the other day that has a lot of information about the history of television One of the greatest 20th century inventions. Learn about the history of TV-set design, development and marketing. Once you are inside a major time period, you will find photographs of television sets from around …

Curious gadget fans smash, dissect iPhones

From the Toronto Star: It took Apple Inc. more than six months to build the iPhone but curious gadget fanatics needed only minutes to tear one apart. Within hours of the first iPhones going on sale Friday, enthusiasts scrambled to be the first to discover what makes the devices tick, posting photos and videos of …