Speedlinks: choose the best products with a little online help
Cool: Wize 100 Benefit from 100s of consumer ratings: “In generating the Wize 100, nearly 15,000 products and more than 750,000 reviews are considered.”
Mozilla firefox extension provides a temporary inbox for your throwaway email addresses: handy for those online shopping bargain newsletters.(I just installed this and haven’t tried it out fully yet; it has a high rating on Mozilla’s extension site)
Plunder PBS’s Nerd TV archive: download interviews in your preferred format: mp3 audio, mp4 video, transcript (for readers), AAC audio, ogg vorbis audio or even ‘the juicy bit’ or ‘the nerdy bit.’ These interviews range from the inventor of tcp/ip, Bob Kahn to the first macintosh programmer ever, Andy Hertzfeld. After you do, make a donation to PBS, if you’re feeling generous.
Is your registry corrupted? Microsoft provides a daunting tutorial for repairing a corrupted XP registry. (this is why I back up.)
Sony recalls eight Cyber-shot digital camera models; defective LCDS found in models DSC-F88, DSC-M1, DSC-T1, DSC-T11, DSC-T3, DSC-T33, DSC-U40 and DSC-U50. [News.bbc.uk]
IT Certification is worth less than ever [Dzone.com] Bottom line: hire the hot ‘professionals who comprehend IT’s role in business, can meet customers’ moving-target deadlines and work well with others’; certification is not as important.
Heads up to web developers and coders: Malicious Code Injection: It’s Not Just for SQL Anymore (darn: I was going to shop online, but this got me thinking: your private information is only as safe as the most insecure web site you shop at… )
What was your best online Black Friday or cyber Monday purchase? How will you use it or who will you give it to? Mine was a 2 gigabyte flash USB drive I plan to load up with applications for computer recovery and tune-up.)
Show and locate my IP … on earth and in cyberspace: (wow, this is clean and fast. My IP address even displays your city, zip and a handy map of where you are located, if you aren’t using a proxy or ip anonymizer.)
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