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From BusinessWeek: Just how do Americans get their news and entertainment over the Web? And how does the Web stack up against TV, newspapers, and other media when it comes to media consumption? Those are questions that advertisers have long wrestled to answer, with mixed results. Sure, you can give people a survey. But that …
I normally don’t pass along stuff like this, but this is simply amazing. Someone has made a flash animation of a cursor drawing a stick figure in an image editing program. The stick figure comes to live and fights the cursor. It’s very well done! I won’t give away who wins. Check out Animator vs. …
From Vnunet.com: Several manufacturers are showing large capacity hard drives based on Flash memory technology at the Computex trade show in Taipei. The drives are lighter, less power-hungry and far more durable than traditional hard disk drives based on a rotating magnetic platter. The largest on display were PQI’s 64GB drives, and another company has …
I read about this at CNet. Deathforecast.com has a several questions you need to answer and it then tells you when you will die: Find out when you will die. Our death forecast estaimes your date of death based on questions that we ask you. I tried it and it says I will live until …
This week’s tip is a little misleading as I am not talking about shooting what is around you, but shooting your subject in their environment. A portrait should be more than simply a photo of a person, it should tell a story about them. While a studio shot may look very nice, they are quite …
In the latest issue of Scot’s Newsletter, Scot Finnie explains his quest for the perfect antivirus solution. He has done major research into several different products, and has some preliminary observations. He also links to AV Comparatives, a site that test antivirus software: On this site you will find independent comparatives of Anti-Virus software. All …
From CNN (Reuters): Big Brother is not only watching but he is also reading your e-mail. According to a new study, about a third of big companies in the United States and Britain hire employees to read and analyze outbound e-mail as they seek to guard against legal, financial or regulatory risk. More than a …
By now many of you have heard that Google has a new web-based spreadsheet product called Google Spreadsheets. I heard about it yesterday, and immediately went to sign-up. It is a closed beta, so I filled in my email address to ask for an invitation, and a few hours later I had one: Thanks for …
From TechRepublic: As Google and Microsoft battle for the hearts and minds of Internet users, a new question has cropped up: Which one can better save planet Earth? Being portals and search engines, the companies are likely among the worst energy users because of the cooling and energy their data centers need to operate. When …
From EETimes.com: New biometric technology developed here can identify individuals by sensing unique electronics signals generated by a beating heart, brain function or breathing. The developer, IDesia (Caesarea, Israel), claims that unlike existing biometric solutions its electronic signature sensor can capture human biometric signals with relative ease. It also claims its system is cheaper than …