September 8, 2008
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I started using the Internet in the 1970s. It didn’t look anything like it does today, and our search tools were, well, awful. Still compared to what we started with, they were great. Before I ever turned my hand to … Continue reading
July 24, 2008
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Firefox 3 is good. Firefox 3, plus the right extensions, is great. Now, a lot of people publish lists of ‘best’ extensions. It’s quick and easy to make these lists. One difference between my list and some of those “99 … Continue reading
July 14, 2008
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CAPTCHA used to be an easy and useful way for Web administrators to authenticate users. Now it’s an easy and useful way for malware authors and spammers to do their dirty work. CAPTCHA — Completely Automated Public Turing Test to … Continue reading
June 3, 2008
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The paint has barely dried on Ubuntu 8.04 when Canonical announced at the Computex trade show in Taiwan on June 3rd that it will be releasing a new version of Ubuntu 8.04 just for Intel Atom-based netbooks and UMPCs (Ultra … Continue reading
May 20, 2008
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Network Solutions, best known for being the grand-daddy of domain name companies is partnering up with German open-source e-mail and groupware company Open-Xchange to offer a hosted email and groupware SaaS (Software as a Service) offering for SMBs (small-to-medium sized … Continue reading
May 16, 2008
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WhitePages.com does exactly what you’d expect from the name — it tries to provide phone book-style listings for both the U.S. and Canada. Of course, there’s nothing new about that, so WhitePages.com tries to do an especially thorough job. The … Continue reading