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The other day I read a Reuters article about a web site that has a goal to “help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.” I’m not sure how it all works, but a word appears and you are …
If all browsers applied web standards correctly, then every web page would look the same in each browser. Unfortunately, this is not the way it is. Each browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc) supports various standards and displays web pages slightly differently. To test your web pages, you could install a copy of every browser and …
Hasbro is the maker (either under the name Hasbro, Parker Brothers, or Milton Bradley) of some classic board games such as Sorry, Monopoly, Life, Boggle, etc. They have a website called StarttheGame.com where you can learn about their games. You can also play demos of some of their games. I played Boggle for a bit …
Regular reader Pat sent me a newsletter that linked to a Mashable posting on RSS (news feeds) resources: Never again will mankind have to look for RSS info in more than one place…ok, we’re kidding, but we’ve aimed to create a near comprehensive list of all the RSS readers, tools, browser plugins, tips, hacks and …
From MSN: Depending on how you calculate it, the Web has been around for between 15 and 17 years–which makes it old enough to ask for the car keys, but still an awkward teenager growing toward maturity. Yet it already has a long and storied history (and some prehistory). We’ve decided to chronicle its 16 …
With Halloween coming along soon, you may be looking for some “scary” web sites. A fun one to check it is Hershey’s TrickorTreats.com. There are all sorts of activities, crafts, pumpkin stencils, and more that you can download.
I haven’t tried this myself, but Microsoft has a web site that lets you “test” Windows Vista: The Windows Vista Test Drive allows you to try (or “test drive”) this latest operating system from Microsoft without having to install it on your PC. By simply logging onto our test drive environment using your web browser, …
I heard about this site from Chris. On the Couchville site, you enter your zip/postal code, choose how you view TV (cable, satellite, or over-the-air antenna), and then choose your provider (if you have more than one option in your area). You then are presented with an AJAX-based TV programming schedule. You can drag the …
From Download Squad: KeyXL is one of the largest online databases of keyboard shortcuts around. Search by software, operating system, Windows, Macintosh, Linux and browser based application, this database has it all.
From PC Magazine: If you’ve browsed our recent list of the Top 100 Classic Web Sites, you may have been a bit disappointed by the familiarity of our choices. Such is the nature of a list of “classics.” So here’s the fun stuff: Our list of the new and/or undiscovered Web sites that have grabbed …