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From ZDNet News: One lazy afternoon, Maer Israel and a colleague ducked out of work to have a double espresso at a nearby cafe in San Francisco. Several weeks later, the information technology manager at the French American International School was alerted that a picture of him sitting at the cafe could be found on …
I heard about this on Download Squad… The nightmare scenario: your computer won’t boot. The drive seems healthy otherwise; you can access it when booting from another drive, but for some reason your drive absolutely refuses to boot. Take heart, it’s possible that it can be fixed by TestDisk, a very powerful cross-platform partition recovery …
From BBC News: Internet video site YouTube is to test a new video fingerprinting technology to address copyright concerns. The software will identify unique attributes in video clips and could be used to prevent copyrighted clips from being uploaded without permission. YouTube executive Chris Maxcy told news agency Reuters that the tool would be tested …
From the New York Times: Presleigh Montemayor often gets home after a long day and spends some time with her family. Then she logs onto the Internet, leaving the real world and joining a virtual one. But the digital utopia of Second Life is not for her. Presleigh, who is 9 years old, prefers a …
From iTWire: A new report from NPD says the average age children start using technology fell to 6.7 years old in 2007, as kids versions of tech gear becomes more common, too. NPD’s new report, “Kids and Consumer Electronics Trends IIIâ€, is their third report since 2005 to see how consumer electronics and children are …
MacDevCenter.com has a nice collection of their Top Ten Digital Photography Tips. You can visit the site to see all of the details and photo samples, but the tips are: Warm Up Those Tones Sunglasses Polarizer Outdoor Portraits That Shine Macro Mode Madness Horizon Line Mayhem Massive Media Card High Rez All the Way Tolerable …
Can you believe it? I actually found out about this one from my 90-year-old grandmother! She goes to POGO.com all the time and plays their Poppit! game. It seems similar to Bejeweled. Poppit! uses java so you need to have the Sun Java software on your computer. The site has lots of games such as …
From CNN: Apple Inc.’s recent rollout of songs without copy protection software at its iTunes Store has given consumers new flexibility, but questions have emerged over the company’s inclusion of personal data in purchased music tracks. Are the songs that are being billed as free of so-called digital rights management technology really “DRM-free” or are …
From USA Today: The arrest of notorious spammer Robert Alan Soloway, 27, on criminal charges for continuing to spread junk e-mail raised cheers in the tech security community. But Soloway’s arrest Wednesday in Seattle won’t slow down the tidal wave of spam. Unwanted commercial e-mail has become big business, backed by organized crime. Most of …
From eWeek: The world might not be ready for a “Milan” coffee-table PC in every living room just yet, but that won’t stop Microsoft from trying. With the launch of its new surface computing product May 30, it appears that Microsoft is positioning its new technology for widespread use both in the enterprise as well …