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From the Globe and Mail: After labouring under the dubious distinction of being one of the world’s major sources of spam, Canada has finally fallen off the list of the “Dirty Dozen” nations sending spam. The new list, released Thursday by SophosLabs, a security company based in Lynnfield, Mass., shows that for the first quarter …
From TechRepublic: Computer-related waste remains a local and global problem, despite the progress made over the last few years. More and more PCs are recycled, but some estimates say that 80 percent of the electronic waste slated for recycling in the U.S. is shipped overseas to be taken apart by low-wage workers, according to the …
As you may be aware, one of the ways that Google determines where to rank a page for a particular search term is by its PageRank. This essentially rates the quality of a page in the Google index. It does this in a number of ways, one of which is the number of links to …
From MSNBC: Del Mar College students now have to use computers outside the school’s system if they want to visit the popular Web site MySpace.com. The community college has blocked the site in response to complaints about sluggish Internet speed on campus computers. An investigation found that heavy traffic at MySpace.com was eating up too …
From TechRepublic: The United States is losing its competitive edge in science and technology, and President Bush told Silicon Valley leaders Friday that the country can’t afford to let that happen. Bush was at Cisco Systems headquarters to promote his plan to bolster America’s competitive advantage in technology. This is the same plan that the …
From CNN: The world’s biggest chip maker Intel is investing in Vietnam and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is due to visit this weekend, but the poor Southeast Asian country’s IT industry has a long way to go. Business analysts say that for the second time in a decade an array of foreign industries and services, …
Michael Otey of Windows IT Pro magazine has put together a list of his 10 favourite little-known tools in Office 2003: Microsoft Office is without a doubt the killer app of the Windows era and must be the most pervasive software application of all time. Almost everyone uses it, either at work or at home. …
About a year ago I posted about the ProcessLibrary.com web site. I recently received an email from them with some more information: As you may be well aware we run processlibrary.com, one of the most popular sites serving hundreds of thousands of users with information on over 9000 processes that may be running on their …
Many otherwise excellent photographs have been ruined by distracting elements in the photo. One easy way around this is to scan all four side of your viewfinder for things that have no business in your photo. The top of someone’s head, a light standard or maybe sign. If you find something that does not belong …
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