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PC Magazine has an article that reviews the various online pay movie services: Chances are that you’ve watched those amusing three-minute viral videos on YouTube and other sites. Cute. But what if you’re in the mood for some longer-format entertainment at a higher image quality, maybe even featuring professional talent? The Internet can help there …
Every once in a while I click on the link in one of those phishing emails to see what happens. I have no plans to give any personal information, but it’s interesting to see the sites and how they try to duplicate the look of legitimate sites. The other day I clicked on a link …
From Guardian Unlimited: A hundred visitors to an internet chatroom last month witnessed a Shropshire father of two hang himself in front of his webcam. Some of Kevin Whitrick’s fellow chatters must have imagined he was play-acting, but others were happy to goad him into killing himself. As Whitrick’s face turned purple and he began …
From CNet News: A Pennsylvania school principal has filed a lawsuit against four former students, claiming they falsely portrayed him as a pot smoker, beer guzzler and pornography lover and sullied his reputation through mock MySpace profiles. Eric Trosch was principal of Hickory High School in Hermitage, Penn., at the time the short-lived profiles went …
From BusinessWeek: The World Wide Web makes Tom Pitoniak’s job harder. As an associate editor at Merriam-Webster, publisher of dictionaries and other reference books, Pitoniak must distinguish between words that legitimately should be in the dictionary and all that other matter sloshing around the English language: slang, industry jargon, onomatopoeic fillers, brand names, buzzwords, abbreviations, …
The latest issue of Windows Secrets newsletter has a nice tip about a free virtual CD-ROM drive: I recently rediscovered a nifty free tool from Microsoft. You may find it useful, too. It’s the Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel… It lets you mount an ISO file of a CD in one step, without having to …
If you are looking for a free classified service in your area, try Kijiji: Kijiji means “village” in Swahili. Kijiji helps you connect with your community. It’s free and easy to use. You can find everything you need from housing to furniture, from jobs to new friends and more. You can charge for things, or …
David Kennedy has a tip on his blog about Spring cleaning for photographers: Spring cleaning applies to photographers too. Every year, it is good to look at your equipment and see if you need everything on your shelf. Are you really going to use that old film camera again? Are you going to re-read that …
From CNNMoney: Tim Spalding was 9 years-old when he had the idea of using his first computer–an Apple II–to make lists of the books he owned, like the Adventures of Tintin series and Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective. Flash-forward to 2007. Spalding is now a programmer, and he’s still keeping lists, but on a far grander …
From the Globe and Mail: First came Google. Then came MySpace, Facebook and Second Life — all created by hip young techies from California. But the biggest new Internet innovation comes from an unlikely place: a Toronto-based company best known for cheesy giftware and stuffed toys. If you have a kid in elementary school, chances …