Filtering the web so you don’t have to for January 31st 2011 Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List – nytimes.com Surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of the online encyclopedia’s hundreds of thousands of contributors are female. From Twitter – Nice how-to. I use MakeMKV then RipBot for compression. RT @thehtpc Encoding [...]
In a security advisory, the company warned of a loophole that could be used by malicious hackers to steal private information or hijack computers. The bug potentially affects every user of the Internet Explorer web browser – around 900 million people worldwide. If you use Windows, whether you use Internet Explorer as your browser or [...]
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for January 30th 2011 From Twitter – RT @jamestenniswood NewerTech adapter turns eSATA into USB 3.0, makes legacy external HDDs feel young again http://engt.co/hRnD4I From Twitter – The Egypt Crisis in a Global Context A Special Report | STRATFOR http://shar.es/3bbkj Should You Really Be A Startup Entrepreneur? [...]
Sure, you could use HTTPS before but it was poorly implemented. You could log on via HTTPS but Facebook wouldn’t keep you in the HTTPS realm. Facebook decided NOT to turn this on by default. So , if you are a Facebook user, stop what you are doing and make these quick changes to your [...]
via blog.lab42.com 13% still use VCRs? Really? Do these stats hold true to your observations among friends and family?
Rumors of Amazon either purchasing Netflix or launching a competing option have been circling and now one of Engadget’s readers says hes seeing an unlimited video streaming section to complement the current Amazon VOD options. This is pretty interesting. Amazon Prime is $79/year and the streaming only option of Netflix is $95.88/year. Seems that after [...]
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for January 28th 2011 through January 30th 2011: From Twitter – RT @kk No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no. http://awe.sm/5Fnod Mark Zuckerberg appears alongside Jesse Eisenberg on SNL [Video] – thenextweb.com – Zee Well its official, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is a celebrity and [...]
The Egyptian authorities have blocked internet access and text messaging after a video of man shot by brutal police force was posted on Youtube, but it didn’t stop Egyptian internet users from posting about the escalating situation in Cairo. While Twitter and Facebook are being blocked, many users are bypassing the block through proxy servers [...]
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for January 26th 2011 through January 28th 2011: Egypt Leaves the Internet – Renesys Blog – renesys.com – James Cowie Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down [...]
Netflix Inc. on Thursday released a report on the quality of North American Internet service providers, a result of a four-month study of traffic generated by its streaming video service. Of the providers studied by Los Gatos-based Netflix NASDAQ:NFLX, Charter Cable consistently provided the best connection speeds, while Sprint’s Clearwire Corp. was consistently the slowest. [...]