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From PC World: Along with sex and shopping, comedy is one of the biggest drivers of traffic on the Web. Especially now that a lot of regular people know how to post their homemade video and audio to the Web (along with clips from TV or radio), there’s an awful lot of funny stuff online. …
There are lots of Internet speed tests around, but a good one I came across the other day is the MySpeed Broadband VoIP and Speed Test. As the title indicates, it tells you how a VoIP connection would be. But it also provides you with overall upload and download speed tests, and shows the results …
I came across an article in wikiHow called “How to Fix a Scratched CD“: While compact discs (CDs) are remarkably durable, it’s nearly impossible to prevent scratches and scuffs from occurring from time to time. The resulting damage can be either a skip in your favorite Bob Marley track or, in the case of data …
(image courtesy of Download Squad) Michael Robertson, the founder of MP3, has been promoting open source software for a while now. He recently started working with a company, Ajax13, that is writing web-based office-suite applications. The latest venture is a Windows replacement called ajaxWindows: Today I’m launching ajaxWindows – a complete virtual PC you can …
Shawn Bremner, a friend who used to provide the Thought of the Week, sent me a link to an image that is supposedly from a 1979 magazine that computers and other electronic gadgets in the home. You can see the much larger, readable image on Flickr…
From PC Magazine: Every year, the analysts and editors at PC Magazine excavate our browser bookmarks, poll our coworkers and friends, dig deep into the World Wide Web, and put our heads together to come up with PC Magazine’s list of the Top 100 Classic Web Sites. The following is our list of the top …
My wife Lisa is a stay-at-home mom to our two sons (and soon to be new daughter). One of her biggest challenges is keeping the boys busy. They don’t mind playing on their own, but they aren’t very creative and need some help getting started. One site she has visited lately is Everything Preschool: Everything …
Every issue of the Windows Secrets newsletter has a Wacky Web section. The latest issue of the newsletter had a link to a trailer for a live-action movie based on the game Minesweeper. It’s pretty funny!
I finally broke down last week and ordered Call Display for my phone. I love it and can’t believe I lived without it for so long. I’ve received a few calls lately that came from UNKNOWN NAME but had a phone number. As I tried to find out who owned the number, I came across …
I found this on Download Squad… Freelance web designer Vitaly Friedman has put together a listing of his choice of the best 25 free fonts available online, and it’s very hard to argue with his choices. He plainly states that his bias is towards fonts that are useful in a business setting, rather than those …