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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 …
From the BBC News: Britons are now sending more than one billion text messages per week according to the latest figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA). The figure is 25% higher than a year ago and is set to shatter forecasts for how many text messages have been sent to and from handsets this …
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 …
From Time.com: Some academics cringe when students turn to Wikipedia as a reference for term papers. University of Washington-Bothell professor Martha Groom has more of an “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” response to the online encyclopedia that anyone can write or edit. Instead of asking students in her environmental history course to turn …
From Reuters: Finally, coming to New York, a fashion show devoid of skinny models and serious faces — in fact the models don’t even exist. Discount retailer Target Corp , known for its innovative marketing, is staging a “model-less” fashion show in Manhattan next week that will feature holograms strutting down a runway in its …
From Wired News: A coalition of privacy and consumer advocacy groups are asking government regulators to create a “Do Not Track” list that Americans can use to block online advertisers from silently recording people’s browsing habits. Advertisers use the data to display targeted ads. The groups petitioned the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to establish …
If you wear glasses, you may find that using the viewfinder on you digital camera is difficult. They lenses in the view finder are made to focus at a certain point, and often glasses may interfere with this. One thing you can try is to adjust the diopter on the eyepiece to match the prescription …
From the Orlando Sentinel: The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them. What’s less clear is how badly the country that gave birth to the Internet is doing, and whether the …
From Reuters: Work colleagues who spend their day gossiping, organizing their home lives, or who press “reply all” on e-mails are among the biggest nuisances in the office, according to a survey released on Monday.
One of the big things in the IT industry these days is virtualization. In general terms, this is using an existing computer to run multiple operating systems at the same time. On my computer I can install special software, and then run Windows, Linux, and sometimes even MacOS in a “window”. This “window” let’s you …