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Almost everyone uses WindowsUpdate to keep their Microsoft products up to date, but what about all the other applications that you have on your system? Secunia, the well-known security research company, has a new web-based scanner: The Secunia Software Inspector relies on carefully crafted “Secunia File Signatures” to recognise applications on your system. The detected …
Last week I mentioned Yahoo’s top searches of 2006. This week it’s Google: A year’s worth of search speaks to our collective consciousness, and 2006 is no exception. To compile these year-end lists and graphs, we reviewed a variety of the most popular search terms that people typed into Google. Click on all the tabs …
Do you like to use wizards or online generators to create code, shrink graphics, or automate other common tasks? If so, then you should definitely check out a posting from Smashing Magazine where they have a huge list of online generators. One can discuss, whether web-generators are useful or not. On the one hand, they …
They seem to be a bit early with this, but Yahoo! is the first major search engine to release their top searches for 2006. The top ten overall searches are: Britney Spears WWE Shakira Jessica Simpson Paris Hilton American Idol Beyonce Knowles Chris Brown Pamela Anderson Lindsay Lohan There are lots of different categories as …
Long-time friend and reader Shawn sent me this… Check this out: http://www.10minutemail.com/ It might be good content for your ezine. It gives you a temporary email address so that you can sign up for more info on other sites, read/get the info you want, and then the address is gone (so you can avoid spam, …
Another Download Squad find… QuickThumbnail is an extremely pared-down online service offering the ability to upload an image and resize, then download the resulting file. Uploaded photos and their resulting copies are kept on the server for only 10 minutes as a security precaution. Resizing options include resizing based on a percentage of the original …
From IT Security: When people read out a phone number, they use “phone rhythm.” No one has to explain “phone rhythm,” we all just seem to do it automatically, “…713…555…12…34”. Similarly, when we answer a phone call we all say, “Hello.” No one taught us to do that, but somehow we all seemed to pick …
I read about this on the Google Operating System blog: Good things are simple and come in small packages. If you wanted a plugin for your music player that finds and displays lyrics for your songs, Lyrics Plugin is a good answer. It’s free, small (around 60 KB) and available for Winamp and Windows Media …
I found this on Lifehacker: PortableApps Suite 1.0 stocks your USB drive, portable hard drive, or any other drive with a full complement of software, ready to run wherever you plug in. This new version of the suite (which we’ve loved on in the past) includes the latest portable versions of Firefox, GAIM, OpenOffice, and …
I read about this on the Office Tips and Hints Blog… SchoolHistory.co.uk – online history lessons, revision, games, worksheets, quizzes and links. In particular, as it mentions, the site has a games section with over 200 topics cover over 6,000 questions. Although the site is based in the UK, the questions would be appropriate for …