If you use Firefox, you might find this guide helpful. Although written in July and a little out of date in some areas (eg, discussing rumoured improvements in Internet Explorer in Windows XP SP2, which was released in August), there’s some good stuff here: keyboard shortcuts, advanced configuration options, performance settings, and links to extensions […]
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New computer magazine publishes only online
Could this could be the new model of what the technology press should be doing – publishing only online, not in print? In November, UK publisher Cranberry Publishing Ltd launched Home Computer Magazine as a free magazine designed specifically for online publishing: Unlike some other emagazines you might have seen, this one is not a […]
Many European tourists dead and missing in Thailand
There is simply no escaping thinking and writing about the awful earthquake/tsunamis tragedy in Asia. Reading a BBC News report just now that focuses on probable casualties among foreign tourists especially from Europe which speaks of “Hundreds of tourists from northern Europe and Scandinavia are among the missing and dead following the Indian Ocean sea […]
Tsunami help campaign
Om Malik is doing a great service in promoting an easy way you can find out how to contribute your help to the victims of the earthquake/tsunamis tragedy in Asia: I have been getting a lot of email from folks wondering how to help the victims of the tsunami-earthquake tragedy that has taken place in […]
Music for better decision-making
In its January issue, Wired magazine reports on a new technology that transforms stock market data into music-based sound to communicate meaning: Abstract snippets of clarinet and harpsichord waft from their workstations. But the financial advisers at Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and Credit Suisse First Boston aren’t listening to Philip Glass. They’re the earliest adopters of […]
Podcasting and vlogging: It’s all about the distribution
Media reports on two rapidly-emerging communication tools – (audio) podcasting and video logging, or vlogging or vblogging: BBC News on podcasting, featuring pioneer Adam Curry: An Apple iPod or other digital music players can hold anything up to 10,000 songs, which is a lot of space to fill. But more and more iPod owners are […]
Companies pledge aid as death toll rises
Apple is the most prominent company I’ve seen so far in its open and very public support for the earthquake/tsunamis disaster in Asia last Sunday. As the screenshot above shows, the company has given over its corporate website home page to stating its commitment and support for victims plus links to sites you can go […]
PeopleSoft shakeout begins at the top
Oracle Corporation fired PeopleSoft‘s co-president and chief financial officer, Kevin T. Parker, and three other top executives, a day after assuming control of the rival software maker in a $10.3 billion takeover, according to a report in today’s New York Times. Oracle terminated W. Phillip Wilmington, co-president; Nanci Caldwell, chief marketing officer; and James Shaughnessy, […]
An online order that exceeds my expectations
A small thing, but it’s good to feel very satisfied with something you order online and when it arrives, it exceeds your expectations. I’m not talking about Amazon, which always meets my expectations. I’m talking about my new gapingvoid business cards which arrived in the post this morning. Good quality card stock, good printing, cards […]
Copyright myths and creative common(s) sense
A handful of myths have spawned practices, particularly among bloggers and website owners, that turn copyright law on its head, says The Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX). These myths are rooted in the assumption that everything is up for use online unless proven otherwise, LLRX says, fostering a presumption of entitlement where many people treat […]
Three success measures for podcasting
Wired News: In October, a Google search would have returned fewer than 6,000 results for “podcasting.” Today, that number is 744,000*, and it seems nearly that many podcasts are available. But as with blogs, a sharp divide exists between the relatively small number of good podcasts and the vast number of bad ones, or at […]
A dark New Year’s Eve
They’ve got this right. From a detailed Reuters report this New Year’s Eve: BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) – Aircraft, naval vessels and trucks struggled Friday to deliver aid around stricken southern Asia as the death toll passed more than 124,000 from a tsunami that darkened the world’s New Year. A dark New Year’s Eve indeed. […]
Blogs can help keep the awareness alive
This morning, I was reading Evelyn Rodriguez’ latest posts in Crossroads Dispatches following her safe return home. Evelyn was caught up (and injured) in the Asia earthquake/tsunamis disaster and blogged about what she saw and experienced. One of Evelyn’s posts in particular has provoked some thoughts. In a post entitled A Tsunami Survivor’s Perspective: The […]
TypePad problem today…
Looks like TypePad has some problems today as my previous post has ended up being published 3 times. And I can’t delete the two duplicates. Hopefully TypePad will have a solution asap. Sorry for any inconvenience! Update 20:00 CET: The problem now seems to be fixed – I was able to delete the 2 duplicate […]
More blog awards
Yet more blogging awards contests: The 2005 Business Blogging Awards organized by InsideBlogging, the blog consultancy set up by Jeremy Wright (of “auction a blogger on eBay” fame) and Darren Barefoot. The 2005 Bloggies organized by Nikolai Nolan at Fairvue Central. The website says this is the fifth annual contest. Last year, there were at […]
Back to Copernic Desktop Search
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been using the new MSN Toolbar Suite of search tools since it was released. I uninstalled it all today and reinstated Copernic Desktop Search. While I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the MSN suite per se, even though it’s still beta, there were three main things that […]
BlogAid pledge to support the Asia disaster
UK blogger Andy Budd has come up with an outstanding initiative to focus the support of bloggers in a very tangible way on the Asia earthquake/tsunamis disaster. Andy has started BlogAid, bascially a pledge service – you go to the BlogAid site and publicly make a commitment: Help support the Tsunami and Earthquake relief efforts […]
Bloggers without borders
Via Loic le Meur, I’ve just seen Bloggers without Borders, launched last week: Bloggers without Borders is a citizen journalism hub, dedictated to raising conscience for, and about, events around the world. We use the tools and exposure of modern citizen journalism as a means to lend a hand in the creation of awareness and […]
Copernic gets grade A from Slate
After I posted yesterday about Copernic Desktop Search, I came across a review of five search tools in Slate, covering Ask Jeeves, HotBot, Google Desktop Search, MSN Toolbar Suite and Copernic Desktop Search. When I read the review, my first reaction was: Where’s X1? Blinkx? This doesn’t look like a good comparison. An explanation by […]
The web to play a bigger role in public offerings
The Wall Street Journal reports that communication among investors, Wall Street stock underwriters and issuers are in for major modernization, if plans by the US Securities and Exchange Commission are approved this year. The Journal reports today on proposals by the SEC for enabling greater use of the internet to faciliate the dissemination of information […]