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Internet Site of the Week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 15/12/2010
» Facebookers (and you know who you are), you're in for a treat. It's a new web browser called RockMelt designed, from the ground up, to be a ''social browser'' and to put all your Facebook and Twitter feeds on one screen.
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.
Internet Site of theWeek
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 03/11/2010
» The dark side of social networking will soon be upon us. One such example is honestly.com (''Truth in Reputation''), a site that allows users to post anonymous reviews of their bosses and fellow workers.
Internet Site of theWeek
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 29/09/2010
» Keeping track of the Internet is no easy task, but alexa.com has found a niche for itself by doing just that. It's a fascinating site to visit to see what's popular, which websites are the most visited, who's in the top 10, even have a peek at the volume of your own traffic to your own website.
Internet Site of theWeek
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 15/09/2010
» What is a webtop and why would you want one? First of all, a webtop is an Internet page that is basically an all-in-one computer system, usually featuring an email client, a word processor, a calendar program, and so on. As to why you might want one, there could be any number of reasons: students in a classroom might find having a webtop a convenient way to communicate with teachers, keep up with scheduled events, or a place to store files. Rather than outfitting each computer in the classroom with all the necessary software for these tasks, the teacher can just have the students create a webtop, which they can then sign on to and do their work.
Internet Site of theWeek
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 08/09/2010
» The Internet is certainly a wonderful place if you read English. But if English isn't your mother tongue, it becomes a bit more challenging. Some of the smarter sites, like Yahoo!, are making efforts to make their copious content and services available to the rest of the world. That's why this week's Internet Site of the Week is Yahoo! Thailand, located at www.th.yahoo.com/.
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.
Half a century of frustration
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 07/07/2010
» Computers are incredibly annoying, which is odd because operating systems got their start back in the 1950s. That's right: more than 50 years ago! More than 50 years of "development" and my personal computer (running a legal copy of Windows XP) still crashes. Still!
Internet Site of the Week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 07/07/2010
» Facebook is a popular site, with 400 million users now and counting. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is hoping for one billion users in the not too distant future, a goal he just might achieve.
Internet Site of the Week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 16/06/2010
» LabPixies is a fun site to visit, for many reasons, offering, as it does, the ''coolest gadgets on the web''. By ''gadgets'', the folks at LabPixies mean little programs that can be run on your web browser or cell phone, or be added to popular web destinations like Facebook, MySpace, Hi5 (a popular social networking site in these parts), iPhone, Android, Orkut and more.