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From BBC News: Browsing the internet has overtaken watching TV as the nation’s favourite leisure activity, says a new report. A survey by search engine giant Google has found that Britons with internet access now spend more time surfing the web than watching the box. The average web user now spends 164 minutes online each …
Reader Alec Thompson sent me this. It was a tip he received from Dot Martin: Great keyboard trick! [If you have a mouse with a wheel] Try this – It really works! I just found out about this. Thought I’d pass this on. It’s very useful when trying to read small e-mail print (especially in …
I hope that everyone is now shooting with straight horizons and buildings that are not falling over! If not, have a look at last week’s tip on keeping straight lines straight. Today, a tip on how to hold your camera for better photos. The LCD screen on today’s digital cameras provides some great advantages over …
From Reuters (via Yahoo! News): He can find George Bush senior’s social security number and Leonardo DiCaprio’s mother’s maiden name in under 15 seconds, and led the FBI on a three-year manhunt as he hacked his way into the world’s biggest firms. “Computer terrorist” Kevin Mitnick is one of the world’s most famous computer hackers …
From TechRepublic: Microsoft plans to announce on Tuesday that it has been granted its 5,000th U.S. patent The patent milestone represents a key marker for the software maker in its recent push to boost its patent filings and then license its technology to other companies. The milestone patent covers technology used to provide a distinct …
From the New York Times: THERE are lots of ways to describe Boing Boing, the Web’s obliquely subtitled “Directory of Wonderful Things,” which draws millions of eyeballs to its relentless, stylistically minimalist scroll of high-weirdness each month. It is a site where, on Saturday morning, there were links to video games that “subvert post-industrial capitalism,” …
From TechRepublic: Windows Vista won’t have a backdoor that could be used by police forces to get into encrypted files, Microsoft has stressed. In February, a BBC News story suggested that the British government was in discussions with Microsoft over backdoor access to the operating system. A backdoor is a method of bypassing normal authentication …
From the New York Times: For a while, the wireless Internet connection Christine and Randy Brodeur installed last year seemed perfect. They were able to sit in their sunny Los Angeles backyard working on their laptop computers. But they soon began noticing that their high-speed Internet access had become as slow as rush-hour traffic on …
From TechRepublic: The English-language version of Wikipedia has racked up its millionth article. Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the online encyclopedia written by its readers, said late Wednesday that an article about the Jordanhill railway station in Scotland became its millionth one. Wikipedia was created in January 2001. At present, it is growing by about …
I heard about this at RedFlagDeals.com. They link to 1Up.com: You don’t care how you get your fix. You just want to play a new game right now and you don’t want to pay a lot for the privilege. Thank God for the Internet, where everything (and its mom) is available for free. So, taking …