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Every other week, it seems, we hear about some Facebook change or other that opens up more privacy concerns. The most recent change is Facebook "Groups," which I've looked into but don't quite understand. I had filtered some of my friends through the available "lists" function, which worked just fine for me. But apparently that was too complicated, so Groups
Google has setup the Family Safety Centre to help parents and teachers keep their children safe online. After spending a little time in the resource, it seems to be a good introduction to online safety for children from a parent's point of view. If you need to know more, you can then take it further through some of the links. The Centre has four main sections:
Before she retired, my Mom used to be a nurse. She typically would always keep around a few current medical books describing diseases and other books listing prescription drugs and their uses. While these sorts of books can make for rather dry reading, they can also be extremely interesting to thumb through from time to time. They can be particularly
dtSearch recently distributed a review copy of version 7.65 (build 7907) which I have been using for a few days. If you aren't familiar with the product, it's a desktop search engine on steroids. It does, not just the desktop, but your entire network. The idea is to make any text document available to you in a flash, not matter
Who has time to go to the bank? I know I rarely do. I have two checks in my purse that desperately need to find their way to the bank, and I just can't manage to find the time to do it. Seems silly, but it means a detour in my normal routine, and I need to block out an
Despite the fact that Yahoo and its search function are still not at the top of the list people use to complete Internet searches, they continue to make changes and upgrade their experience. Sometimes I call Yahoo the Little Search Engine That Could. Back in the day, before Google was an itch in anyone's brain, we used search engines like
Windows Phone 7 handsets are going to be hitting Europe on 21st October, a full two weeks ahead of the USA, who won't get the new phones until 8th November. With a potential 10 phones on offer, it will be interesting to see which ones are offered at launch. So if you want to get one up on our US cousins,
The Tricaster Studio is headed for a new home at SDRNews.com and I expect the Tricaster TCXD 850 to be delivered in the near future. With my upcoming road trip, I will be remote most of the time anyway so small impact. I head out to Vegas tonight on the Red Eye and will be their through Monday morning. Make
Have you ever downloaded some data off the 'net only to find it's in a compressed or archive file format that your PC doesn't have a helper app for? Or you're fixing up a friend's PC, you download some drivers and ditto, you can't get them unpacked? If so, you'll be interested in WobZIP. It's a web site where you
Lexar Media has added a 1.8" range of SSDs to its Crucial RealSSD C300 product line. These solid state drives (SSDs) are ideal for netbooks, ultrathin laptops and tablets or anywhere that 2.5" drives are too big. Amazingly, these 1.8" versions perform just as well as their 2.5" siblings, with read speeds of up to 355MB/s and write speeds up
Adam Curry is a clever guy. Back in 2004 he was working on the concept of podcasting. Now he is pioneering smartphone apps. About 6 months ago, Adam Curry came out with a free iPhone application called “The Big App Show.” Each day, day in and day out, Curry records a new video of himself demonstrating an iPhone app. The
I try not to give too much love to any one single website, but this is too good to resist. Smashing Magazine have a great article listing some of the best retro and DOS games which are now available on-line, some as downloads, some online. As far as I can tell, all the games are legitimate, but use your own
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