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From C|Net: Microsoft’s MSN Music on Monday announced it would offer free downloads of some songs in the running for Grammy awards this year. From Tuesday through Saturday, the company will offer one song download per day. The songs will be selected by the editorial team at MSN Music, which will pick the tracks they …
Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a “new view”) makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML. …
From NYT: Homaro Canbtu’s maki look a lot like the sushi rolls served at other upscale restaurants: pristine, coin-size disks stuffed with lumps of fresh crab and rice and wrapped in shiny nori. They also taste like sushi, deliciously fishy and seaweedy. But the sushi made by Mr. Cantu, the 28-year-old executive chef at Moto …
From eWeek: You probably think you’re pretty safe from phishing attacks, right? After all, how difficult is it to ignore a “security warning” from a bank you don’t do business with? Or a non-grammatical message purportedly from PayPal that says your account is about to be turned off? I’ve avoided those scams and even bogus …
This is another great find by Langa. A subscriber sent him this link: http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm I haven’t tried the software, but apparently it will let you recover deleted items from an NTFS (used in Windows NT, 2000, XP) partition.
This is a great resource that Fred Langa referenced in his latest LangaList newsletter. If you visit http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php you will find a list of over 200 Linux distributions that have a live CD. This is a CD that you can boot from and run Linux from the CD. This is a great chance to play …
From CNet: The European Commission on Friday held out the possibility that Microsoft may be fined up to 5 percent of its average daily turnover unless it complies soon with a European Union antitrust decision. Last month, Microsoft lost a months-long court bid to suspend sanctions for breaking the law and said it would offer …
From Wired News: When he reads the glowing stories detailing the wonders of the fledgling Firefox web browser, Jon von Tetzchner can’t help but wonder why his own baby is so often ignored. Von Tetzchner is the CEO of Opera Software, maker of the Opera web browser. In the sort of grand comedic tragedy that …
From TechRepublic: A federal judge on Friday sentenced a 19-year-old Minnesota man to 18 months in prison for unleashing a variant of the MSBlast worm. Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, of Minnesota was ordered to serve his time in a minimum security prison and participate in 10 months of community service. FBI agents arrested Parson at …
From Yahoo! News/Reuters: Apple, whose iPod has replaced Sony’s Walkman as the personal media player to be seen with, topped both the global and North American rankings in the poll, displacing Google despite the splash caused by the search engine’s $1.7 billion auction-style initial public offering last year. See complete results at http://www.brandchannel.com/start1.asp?fa_id=248