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From TechRepublic: Dealing with viruses, spyware, PC theft and other computer-related crimes costs U.S. businesses a staggering $67.2 billion a year, according to the FBI. The FBI calculated the price tag by extrapolating results from a survey of 2,066 organizations. The survey, released Thursday, found that 1,324 respondents, or 64 percent, suffered a financial loss …
It’s about time!
Last night I received an invitation from Microsoft to join the Windows Live Mail Beta: I signed up and after 2 clicks my account was switched over. The new interface is very slick. Only the mail portion works in Firefox, but in IE, you get mail, calendar, tasks and reminders. It looks very much like …
From NewsFactor: The continued rise in phishing attacks shows increasing sophistication in strategy as well as more organized efforts among online criminals, said Dave Jevans, APWG chairman. “We’re a long way from the days when attacks on systems were done to show off,” he said. “With the motivation today being money, that creates a different …
In the past, I discussed compositional tips such as the rule of thirds, moving in and moving out from your subject. This week I will discuss S-curves and diagonals and how they can improve your photography. Photographs are static images. To add life to them, we need to make use of compositional elements. Of the …
I haven’t tried the software, but it sounds interesting: SetNameToTime is a program designed to batch rename digital camera pictures using free text, counters and information extracted from the file’s exif header. The new file names is based on the new name format settings controlled by the user. The new name format is specified using …
Like most people, I get a fair number of junk emails pretending to be from a bank, insurance company, credit card company, or PayPal. This morning I thought I’d check out one of the sites and see what happens. I clicked on a nice looking “PayPal” email (that was sent to an email that wasn’t …
From BusinessWeek: The cable network is a robust two-way medium that allows users to send and receive data at high rates. That has helped cable gain considerable ground in the Net-access and -phone markets. Telecom companies like AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) are building fiber networks that will deliver even more bandwidth to the home. …
The United States National Library of Medicine has an excellent service called DocMorph where you can convert 50+ different document formats to PDF. You have to register (which is free), and then you find a file on your computer, and it converts it. It does a good job of optimizing the output. I tried it …
From CNN: Internet users can give Web sites a thumbs up or thumbs down in less than the blink of an eye, according to a study by Canadian researchers. In just a brief one-twentieth of a second — less than half the time it takes to blink — people make aesthetic judgments that influence the …