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From BBC: Shoppers are likely to abandon a website if it takes longer than four seconds to load, a survey suggests. The research by Akamai revealed users’ dwindling patience with websites that take time to show up. It found 75% of the 1,058 people asked would not return to websites that took longer than four …
Along with my position as President of the Niagara Falls Camera Club, I am also maintain the club website. Recently, I asked our members to send me some images to add to the website, after all, we are a photography club. I was surprised when I was asked by a few different members how to …
Some quick thoughts on Firefox 2 and IE 7… Firefox 2 doesn’t seem like it should be a whole new version. It seems about the same as 1.5, which seemed about the same as 1.0. But overall I still love the software, and the add-ons/extensions are great. I use this for 99% of my browsing. …
Yet another one I found on Download Squad… Chris does a great job with the Digital Photography Tip of the Week, but there’s always room for more tips. The 2 Minute Photoshop Tricks site has around 40 different tips (some of them even with video) that explain how to accomplish certain effects in Photoshop. The …
From TechRepublic: Google CEO Eric Schmidt denied a widely circulated rumor that his company had set aside $500 million to settle copyright claims by media companies as part of its deal to acquire video-sharing site YouTube. Speaking to more than 500 Internet industry insiders at the Web 2.0 Summit, Schmidt said Tuesday that an anonymous …
From TechRepublic: The last stop for Vista is a windowless conference room in Building 26, on Microsoft’s sprawling campus in the Seattle suburbs. Each day, members of the Windows team gather inside this “shiproom” to go over the bugs that remain, and to debate which of these can still be fixed in the days left …
From Download Squad: Awhile back I linked to Media-Convert, a web service that will convert files while you wait. I was duly impressed by Media-Convert, and I’m even more impressed by Zamzar, a very similar free service with a Web 2.0 touch. It can convert between five image formats, 14 document formats, 11 audio formats, …
From TechRepublic: Reversing a licensing change announced two weeks ago, Microsoft said on Thursday that it will not limit the number of times that retail customers can transfer their Windows Vista license to a different computer. On Oct. 16, Microsoft issued the new user license for Vista, including terms that would have limited the ability …
From Time Magazine: It’s been an interesting year in technology. Nintendo invented a video game you control with a magic wand. A new kind of car traveled 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas. A robot learned to ride a bike. Somebody came up with a nanofabric umbrella that doesn’t stay wet. But only …
From TechRepublic: Computer users consistently use very simplistic logic when creating passwords. For example, many of us choose meaningful words, personal dates, or a word commonly found in the dictionary because it makes the password easy to remember. These common practices cause us to sacrifice the security that passwords are intended to provide. If you’re …