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Internet Site of the Week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 08/12/2010
» This week's Internet Site of the Week is for all you Google searchers who want to view results without having to leave the Google search page list of results. It's one of those ''Why haven't they thought of this before?'' pages, very handy indeed.
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Internet Site of the Week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 29/12/2010
» ''An orb is a web site that you or a group can edit. So simple it's silly.'' So say the folks at orb.com/, where you can set up a free site without ever having to bother yourself with the complexities of HTML.
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The importance of porn
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 01/09/2010
» The Internet owes a lot to porn, whether we care to admit it or not. Without porn driving growth and web technologies (picture formats, file-sharing, and so on), the Internet probably wouldn't be what it is today. In the early days, trading pornographic pictures occupied much of the Internet's time and effort. Even before the Internet, there were BBSs full of porn for the downloading.
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Seeking solace online
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 03/11/2010
» It's no secret that I suffer from bipolar disorder, a major mental disorder, which is not so much an illness as a chemical imbalance in the brain. It has made my life like a nonstop rollercoaster ride _ up and down, year after year, stumbling from one self-induced disaster to the next, not realising until I was about 40 that there was something seriously amiss. With medication, the road has been smoothed somewhat, though I often feel like a zombie, which is neither good nor bad; not really much of anything at all.
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Escape the tyranny of file formats
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 06/10/2010
» Today I would like to share with you one of most important things about software that you will ever learn or need to know, and I can say that with some confidence, based on 20 years of using a personal computer.
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INTERNET SITE of the Week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 13/10/2010
» Mind your manners! And if you don't know how, you'll want to pay a visit to The Emily Post Institute Etipedia at www.emilypost.com/etipedia, an electronic database of social dos and don'ts, with additional rules about how to behave while on the Internet and composing email (necessary, if some of my correspondence is any indication _ it's extremely easy to come across as rude and abrupt in email since you're not there, in person, to see the reaction of the person reading your email. It can be difficult to tell if one is joking or serious, being ironic or purposefully unpleasant, with those visual cues from normal conversation).
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Internet Site of the Week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 28/07/2010
» There are a lot of sites on that help you touch up your photos _ crop them, resize them, remove red eye, improve lighting and so forth. Picnik, at www.picnik.com/, is one such site and has much to offer.
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Up to their old tricks
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 21/04/2010
» It happened again. I was innocently browsing the web the other day and Microsoft Corp, from its cushy offices in Redmond, California, reached out across the web and threw a glass of cold water in my face.
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We've come a long way, baby - or not
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 12/05/2010
» The protests on the streets of Bangkok these days are a reminder that, taken as a whole, mankind has come a long way in the past hundred years - yet not everyone has been able to enjoy the trip, nor have all benefited from the enormous sacrifices required for industrialisation and participation in the modern world. It has increasingly become a world of haves and have-nots and the disparity has been fuelled, in large part, by science and technology.
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Internet site of the week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 19/05/2010
» If you don't know who Justin Bieber is, this week's Internet Site of the Week should prove useful. Assuming, of course, that keeping up to date on the latest in teeny-bopper hearththrobs is something you find important. Even so, it can be quite embarrassing to be clinking cocktails at a party and not know why everyone is laughing at a ''leave it to Bieber'' comment, or busting a belly over the latest Lady Gaga fashion monstrosity.
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