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From SearchEngineWatch: Looking for an answer to a specific question? Check out this list of the best reference sites of 2004, as compiled by the American Library Association. The list is compiled by MARS, the Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the American Library Association. To be eligible for consideration, sites must meet a number of criteria, …
A nice review from MSNBC: Technology proved a mixed blessing in 2004, taking three steps forward and two steps back –maybe even two and a half steps back. Biometrics were supposed to make our borders safer; but chip-enabled visas and the US-VISIT fingerprinting program raised just as many questions as they answered. Online banking soared …
From NewsFactor: The U.S. has maintained its dubious distinction of being the world’s top producer of spam, leading the ‘Dirty Dozen’ list compiled by security Latest News about Security authority Sophos by a wide margin. After scanning all spam messages received at a global network of traps throughout the past year, Sophos researchers determined that …
From NewsFactor: As December comes to a close, the group that launched the upstart Web browser application Firefox can look back on 2004 with satisfaction. Mozilla has seen the Firefox browser downloaded over 13 million times since its release in November. A companion e-mail program — Thunderbird — was released in December. And the nonprofit …
From the NYT: Ten years ago, Kodak manufactured the first digital camera aimed for sale to retail consumers, the $749 QuickTake 100, sold by Apple Computer. But by 2000, Sony had muscled in as the leading digital camera maker and Kodak was hovering near 5 percent of the market, a dire position, while the film …
Chris and I hope you have a very Merry Christmas. Be sure to let us know of any cool new “toys” you got!
This is the 50th year that NORAD (NORth American Aerospace Defense Command) has tracked Santa on Christmas Eve. Their tracking site has information in 6 languages, pictures of Santa through the years, along with other interesting Christmas information (did you know Santa has eaten 825246243 cookies?). Check it out at http://www.noradsanta.org/
Yesterday I posted a link to Google’s year-end review of search terms. Well, of course the other search engines have done this as well. Visiting http://tools.search.yahoo.com/top2004/ will display Yahoo!’s: Top Movies Searches Top News Searches Top Reality Show Searches Top Olympian Searches Top Music Searches Top Britney Spears Searches Top Music Lyrics Searches Top Auto …
I don’t do a lot of crossword puzzles, but when I do, I can’t stand leaving a few clues unanswered. I tried just using a search engine to search for answers, but that didn’t work at all. Then when I searched for crossword help, I found the OneAcross web site. You can enter the clue, …
From the Ed Bott – Ed Bott – Windows (and Office) Expertise: Security alert for Windows XP blog: Here’s a disturbing report of a Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Internet Explorer, from Secunia. Note that installing SP2 alone will not protect you from this problem, although it does offer a useful tool to fix it temporarily. …