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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 …
Mingle2 has a tool that they say will “rate” your blog, similar to the way movies are rated. It scans the posts and looks for objectionable words. It obviously isn’t perfect (one of my sites was warned about using the word “dead”), but it’s still kind of a fun tool. You can enter any blog …
From the beauty and majesty of their sheer size to the heart-wrenching memories of ill-fated ships, nothing evokes such a combination of awe, curiosity and caution quite like an iceberg. So if you’re looking for icebergs, you’ve come to the right place. Newfoundland and Labrador is the greatest iceberg theatre in the world. From the …
PC Magazine has a fun article about good celebrity websites: We see their pictures in glossy magazines. We watch their movies, games, or TV shows. We obsess over their relationships. But in this modern age, there’s an even better way to learn about your favorite celebs: Just read their blogs or visit their Web sites. …
I heard about this on Download Squad… How many times have you been befuddled with a product, only to result to the dreaded 1-800 number in the manual to resolve your issue? Hours later only to find no resolution in sight. Enter Fixya, a startup that has taken on the challenge of supplying online technical …
Can you believe it? I actually found out about this one from my 90-year-old grandmother! She goes to POGO.com all the time and plays their Poppit! game. It seems similar to Bejeweled. Poppit! uses java so you need to have the Sun Java software on your computer. The site has lots of games such as …
From PC World: When it comes to computers, sometimes things go south…and sometimes they go to Antarctica. If your computer won’t boot or your data’s gone astray, panic is soon to follow, and you might find yourself making things worse in your haste to solve the problem. To prepare for that inevitable day, save this …
The latest edition of the Windows Secrets newsletter has a link to a neat Flash activity that lets you “operate” on a stuffed rabbit. You should check it out. It always amazes me what people are able to program and put on the web!
This site is a fabulous resource for free fonts. There are 5 pages with samples of fonts. To download the font, you just click on the sample and a ZIP file will download. The site explains how they determine which fonts are “tops”: Top 500 is calculated based on download counts from some of the …
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 …