Blogger users pulling their hair out
I know first hand the frustration when you cannot access your website, the growing pains we have had hear have been evident from time to time. It is only going to get worse. But hey when the site goes down…
Google Video Hosting who own’s it and more!
I touched on this subject last night. With Google’s ever increasing appetite for data be it e-mail, video etc. They must have warehouses full of computers with nothing but hard-drives in them. Imagine offering 2 gigs of storage to virtually…
Need a stock quote just message Google!
Don’t you just love it when services that companies charge a premium for all of a sudden become free. Well leave it to Google you can now SMS a message to Google and it will message you back a stock…
Where to find great Images!
If you look around the net for images you find a lot of sites that charge you a arm and a leg for access to royalty free images. I actually subscribe to one service and have paid for some images…
Hear Me, I Want to Listen
Digital Rights Management (DRM)is a tool that doesn't reflect the general preference of legal music downloaders. Before you read on, hoping that I will advocate for the free distribution of music, let me warn you: I'm a strong supporter of copyright and the protection of intellectual property; I want artists and distributors to make a decent living, but I'm frustrated by the current misuse of digital technology that attempts to thwart illegal distribution. In practice, DRM makes creates compatibility problems that make it excessively difficult, and in most cases, impossible, to listen to music that has been purchased online.
Pew Report States That 27 Percent of Users Download Digital Music and Video
The Pew Internet & American Life Project reported this week that 36 million Americans, 27 percent of internet users, report having downloaded music or video files. Half of this group have skirted the traditional peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and commercial online distribution services (i.e. Napster, iTunes). This is a significant number of digital media users whose sharing of digital media is untraceable by the recording industry and copyright holders.
Internet Explorer Unsafe 98 Percent of the Time
ScanIT, an Internet security consultancy, reports Microsoft's Internet Explorer was unsafe 98 percent of the time, during 2004. The data were collected from 195,000 internet users who used ScanIT's online security checker. The reported 98 percent unsafe rating is based on security holes being found in fully-patched installations of Internet Explorer on every day of the year 2004, except the week between October 12 and 19.