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Last week I mentioned Yahoo’s top searches of 2006. This week it’s Google: A year’s worth of search speaks to our collective consciousness, and 2006 is no exception. To compile these year-end lists and graphs, we reviewed a variety of the most popular search terms that people typed into Google. Click on all the tabs …
From InformationWeek: A phenomenon as monumental as the Internet should have an ailment of its own. Indeed, the Web appears to be breeding its very own disease, a medical syndrome recognizable by a quickening of the heart, profuse sweating, and furious clicking and bashing of the mouse. In extreme cases, the ailment can be identified …
I have a DVD burner at home and at work, but I’ve never tried to make my own video DVD. I’m not particularly concerned about any legal ramifications. I’ve just never really needed to. Lately I’ve been doing some reading and thought I’d share a couple of things. The first is software called DVD Shrink: …
From the Globe and Mail: Hold onto your sleigh-reins: Santa has gone interactive. In either a blatant manipulation of a beloved Christmas legend or a genius attempt to bring children and parents together this festive season, one of the world’s largest instant-messaging operators has taken last year’s ‘e-mail Santa’ campaign to another level. MSN has …
From MSNBC: By his own admission, James Pacenza was spending too much time in Internet chat rooms, in some of them discussing sex. He goes so far as to call his interest in inappropriate Web sites a form of addiction that stems from the post-traumatic stress disorder he’s suffered since returning from Vietnam. Whatever it’s …
From the New York Times: On Thursday, Kevin Poulsen, senior editor for Wired News, noted in his blog, a milestone in the number of records that have been compromised in data breaches since the ChoicePoint breach nearly two years ago: “Rapid-fire announcements this week by U.C.L.A. (800,000 records) and Aetna (130,000) moved the total to …
This week I review ExpoImaging ExpoDisc White Balance Filter. Through a series of controlled tests in different lighting conditions and real world examples, I show how this filter can improve colour accuracy in your photographs. Read the full review…
From CNN: The University of California, Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke into a campus computer system. Only a small percentage — “far less than 5 percent” — of the records in the database …
Do you like to use wizards or online generators to create code, shrink graphics, or automate other common tasks? If so, then you should definitely check out a posting from Smashing Magazine where they have a huge list of online generators. One can discuss, whether web-generators are useful or not. On the one hand, they …
They seem to be a bit early with this, but Yahoo! is the first major search engine to release their top searches for 2006. The top ten overall searches are: Britney Spears WWE Shakira Jessica Simpson Paris Hilton American Idol Beyonce Knowles Chris Brown Pamela Anderson Lindsay Lohan There are lots of different categories as …