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I would like to thank everyone for their patience over the past little while when I was getting married. I know that the tips had stopped, but hopefully the reviews Graham included in the newsletter were beneficial. I had very little activity on my own website in that time as well and have resumed regular …
I’ve seen this mentioned in a couple of places, but Mashable has an article that compares 14 different personalized home pages. The homepages are: Netvibes Pageflakes iGoogle MyYahoo yourminis WebWag Schmedley Eskobo Windows Live Favoor Gritwire Inbox Protopage It’sAStart I haven’t heard of a bunch of these, but I’ll probably check them out now that …
I came across this interesting web site the other day that has a lot of information about the history of television One of the greatest 20th century inventions. Learn about the history of TV-set design, development and marketing. Once you are inside a major time period, you will find photographs of television sets from around …
From the Toronto Star: It took Apple Inc. more than six months to build the iPhone but curious gadget fanatics needed only minutes to tear one apart. Within hours of the first iPhones going on sale Friday, enthusiasts scrambled to be the first to discover what makes the devices tick, posting photos and videos of …
From eWeek: Money is the motivation for scam-spam. The motivation for clicking on it is far less straightforward, and none of us is immune. “It’s not like certain people are going to be nailed by spam all the time. Or that there are certain motivations that will just [always] trigger people [who respond] to spam …
From USA Today: NASA astronauts “twittering” from the moon? It’s not such a far-fetched idea, considering the space agency’s current push to partner with Web 2.0 companies like Twitter and save itself from turning into a dinosaur in the Internet age. Some executives at the struggling NASA believe that if the agency can adopt Web …
Mingle2 has a tool that they say will “rate” your blog, similar to the way movies are rated. It scans the posts and looks for objectionable words. It obviously isn’t perfect (one of my sites was warned about using the word “dead”), but it’s still kind of a fun tool. You can enter any blog …
From the beauty and majesty of their sheer size to the heart-wrenching memories of ill-fated ships, nothing evokes such a combination of awe, curiosity and caution quite like an iceberg. So if you’re looking for icebergs, you’ve come to the right place. Newfoundland and Labrador is the greatest iceberg theatre in the world. From the …
From Forbes: If Jonathan Ive were dead, which he’s not, he’d be spinning in his grave. Instead, Apple’s chief designer is probably vomiting in his wastebasket. In an effort by the staid, slumping computer maker to break its bland streak, Dell rolled out new laptops Tuesday cloaked in eight different colors, including “sunshine yellow” and …
PC Magazine has a fun article about good celebrity websites: We see their pictures in glossy magazines. We watch their movies, games, or TV shows. We obsess over their relationships. But in this modern age, there’s an even better way to learn about your favorite celebs: Just read their blogs or visit their Web sites. …