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From Vnunet: UK teachers said yesterday that the only way to tackle cyber bullying in schools is to close websites such as YouTube, which encourage such behaviour. Speaking at the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) annual conference yesterday, Kirsti Paterson of the Highland & Western Isles Federation SEC Committee, said that bullying had transcended the …
From the New York Times: Microsoft is beset with competition from all sides, unlike any it has seen in decades, and Bill Gates, who co-founded the company 32 years ago, still intends to step away next year as planned. But so far, Mr. Gates, Microsoft’s 51-year-old chairman, shows no sign of fading away.
From CNet News: In early 2006, when Chloe was 15, she decided to devote a blog to Neopets, a virtual pets site popular with kids the world over. After performing some keyword research through WordTracker and Google Suggest for her blog’s title and section headings, she discovered that “neopets cheats” was a hugely popular search …
I have mentioned in previous tips that I do much of my shooting in the early morning. This is for a variety of reasons, better light than midday, less or no people traffic to interfere with my photos and of course life is busy and shooting in the morning doesn’t interfere with other things leaving …
I saw this at Canoe: Summertime – a great time to take lots of pictures. And with the price of memory cards ar an all-time low everyone gets shutter happy, including yours truly. Now, we don’t want to keep all these works of art to ourselves – we want to share them. We could choose …
From Chemical and Engineering News: Office workers now have reason to think twice before printing out that report the boss is waiting for. In a recent office study, researchers in Australia found that nearly one-third of laser printers emitted high levels of nanoparticles into the air, and on average, particle counts during working hours were …
From PC World: Some sites seeing total visits increase as much as 270 percent, according to a study released by Internet measurement company ComScore. The use of social networking sites worldwide has grown substantially in the past year, with some sites seeing total visits increase as much as 270 percent, according to a study released …
I read about this in the August issue of Microsoft Technet magazine: Every IT pro I know has at least one or two multi-boot machines. Today, those systems usually include an instance of Windows Vista® or Windows Server® 2008, formerly code-named “Longhorn.” If you are running a multi-boot system with one of these operating systems, …
From TechRepublic: To simplify access to the tools in Windows XP’s Control Panel, Microsoft created the Category View, in which the Control Panel’s tools are organized into categories. If you’re an old-school Windows user, you can still switch back to the Classic View, in which all of the Control Panel’s tools are available. If you …
From USA Today: One in five online Americans view video over the Internet on any given day, thanks to speedier Internet connections and a wider selection of clips, a study finds. Young adults watch in greater numbers and often turn to humorous clips, while all other age groups use video predominantly for news, according to …