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From Yahoo! News: “A software vendor that tried to drum up sales by offering to clean up nonexistent computer ‘spyware’ has been temporarily shut down, U.S. regulators said on Friday. The makers of Spyware Assassin tried to scare consumers into buying software through pop-up ads and e-mail that warned their computers had been infected with …
From NYT: “At first glance, digital music is the field in which Sony’s considerable assets seem best suited, with a little rearrangement, for a comeback. On one side, Sony has 50 years of experience in producing portable music players, beginning with transistor radios in the 1950’s and extended by its Walkman franchise that has sold …
Where can you find the most interesting weblogs? Which blogs have made their mark this year? Who will do anything for a nomination? Those questions will be answered in the one and only… fifth annual weblog awards the 2005 bloggies Check it out at http://2005.bloggies.com/
Andrew’s Excel utilities is a collection of utilities that perform many different funcitons, including conversions (temperature, distance, weight, and more), comments features, row and column functions plus many more. The free download has .xla files for adding a menu item, toolbar, or right click menu to Excel.
A good article by Brian Livingston about how web users react to placement of elements on a web page.
From TechRepublic: Five years ago Thursday, a pin pricked the Internet bubble. And in that five-year span, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has fallen by more than half, corporate America has pulled back its IT spending, a large swath of jobs have been cut across a number of industry sectors, consumer confidence has waned, and the tech …
From Yahoo! News: It wasn’t too long ago that a kid with a stereo and television in his room might have been the coolest on the block. Now, that just makes him one of the crowd. In the past five years, many children’s rooms have evolved into multimedia centers, with cable or satellite hookups, computers …
Filmwise.com has a bunch of invisible quizzes where they Photoshop the people out of a film scene but leave their clothing and it is up to you to determine if you can figure it out. Boingboing.net has a link to an excel spreadsheet with 70 such scenes. While I do watch a lot of movies, …
From Forbes.com: The rich had a very good year. The collective net worth of the 691 billionaires we could find is $2.2 trillion, up $300 billion from the combined worth of the 587 people listed last year. Every region saw gains. The world’s richest moguls now hail from 47 countries, including, for the first time, …
From CNet: Google began testing new customization features on its news aggregation site Wednesday in a salvo against competition from Microsoft. Google News, still in its test or ‘beta’ phase after launching in 2002, says it will let people specify what categories of news to display on the page, giving an array of choices including …