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Sites that I found interesting for November 11th 2009 through November 12th 2009:

• Microsoft probing Windows 7 zero-day hole – Microsoft said on Wednesday it is looking into a report of a vulnerability in Windows 7 and Server 2008 Release 2 that could be used by an attacker to remotely crash the computer.
• Hands-on: Netflix streaming on the PS3 – While Netflix streaming is nearly identical on most devices that support it, there are some significant differences with the PS3 that make it worth testing.
• Programmer 101: Teach Yourself How to Code – You've always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a programmer in no time.

Sites that I found interesting for September 21st 2009 through September 23rd 2009:

• Indian space mission finds water on moon – An Indian space mission claims to have found water on the moon, raising hopes that a manned base could be established there within the next two decades.
• WWW FAQs: How do I design web pages for the iPhone? – Handy CSS tips to get your page to display nicely on an iphone.
• TV on your Media Center PC: a 30-second primer – Ed Bott has a quick run down on the current state of getting TV on you PC.

Sites that I found interesting for June 24th 2009 through June 25th 2009:

• DIM: Digital Image Mover – DIM only does one thing, but it does it well: it copies files from your camera’s memory card to a destination directory determined by your storage scheme. If any directories need to be created in the process, it will create them. In addition, the file can be renamed while it is copied to a more “useful” name than your camera might have provided.
• Major features of each Windows 7 version (SKU) revealed – via @joshpollard on Twitter
• Let's make the web faster – Google Code – Plugin for firebug on Firefox. via @nrek on twitter

Sites that I found interesting for May 13th 2009 through May 17th 2009:

• The Exploding Digital Universe – What are we going to do with all our digital stuff??
• Jump Into The Stream – "This isn’t an inbox we have to empty, or a page we have to get to the bottom of — its a flow of data that we can dip into at will but we can’t attempt to gain an all encompassing view of it." – John Borthwick, betaworks.com
• Windows 7 Media Center Themes – Out of the box, Windows 7 Media Center does not have themes. Theme7MC gets around that and has some stunning themes for you to download. via @isdixon on twitter.

Sites that I found interesting for April 9th 2009 through April 15th 2009:

• Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories – Now you can send your tweets directly into Evernote.
• MoWeS Portable – CH Software – MoWeS stands for the three letter abbreviation Modular Webserver System and makes it possible, to run a webserver based on Apache, MySQL and PHP from an USB Stick or any other writable media (harddrive, flash cards etc.) without installation under Windows (98 to Vista).
• 10 Recent Scientifically Solved Mysteries – Epidaurus Theater Acoustics, Crystal Skulls, New England’s Dark Day, Face on Mars, The Barreleye Fish, Solving Checkers, The Unknown Titanic Child, Ancient Tablet Deciphered, Sharks Virgin Birth, Flight of the Bumblebee

Sites that I found interesting for March 24th 2009 through March 26th 2009:

• Apple Mac Trojan caught on film – This is a bit staged but still worth a view. Shows you have to be careful what links you go to.
• Media Center Plugin Brings Netflix Hulu and more Online Video via PlayIt – Brilliant. I'm going to give this a try as I already use the excellent PlayOn software.
• A guide to Silverlight 3 new features –

There are some web sites out there that make things hard to read. I don’t mean for quick browsing. Most of us who have been using the web for any length of time have trained ourselves to get the gestalt of a page fairly quickly. I mean for time when you really want to read an news or other type of long article.

Over at arc90 they have a new lab experiment where they have created a bookmarklet that you install easily in your browser. Then, when surfing to a page that you want to read for a while, you click the bookmarklet and instantly the page changes to a much more readable format.

Here is a quick video they put together to visually explain what they are doing.

Readability : An Arc90 Lab Experiment from Arc90 on Vimeo.

You can get the bookmarklet here: Readability

Sites that I found interesting for January 5th 2009 through January 6th 2009:

• After an Agonizing Wait, Picasa for Mac Finally Arrives – Google announced Monday that Picasa for the Mac, a free desktop application for editing, organizing and sharing digital photos, is now available as a public beta through Google Labs.
• Time Spent Watching Video Jumps 40% in One Year « NewTeeVee – The amount of time U.S. Internet users spend watching video is up an impressive 40 percent year over year.
• How to wash your car properly – Not exactly tech but interesting to pass along.

Sites that I found interesting for November 11th 2008

• Google Uses Web Searches to Track Flu’s Spread – Turns out a lot of ailing Americans enter phrases like “flu symptoms” into Google and other search engines before they call their doctors. That simple act, multiplied across millions of keyboards in homes around the country, has given rise to a new early warning system for fast-spreading flu outbreaks, called Google Flu Trends.
• Are You Making These 10 CSS Mistakes? – CSS tips n tricks
• Google Brings Voice, Video Chat to Gmail – To start using the Gmail voice and video chat tool users must open a Gmail chat window, click on the "Options" menu and choose "Add voice/video chat." Users will be instructed to install a 2MB plug-in.
• AVG Free Forum :: Information And Alerts :: PC crash after AVG update 9 Nov 2008 – I've been a long time supporter of AVG but this last week I've had several good files misreported. This forum entry tells you how to recover your machine if one of your core files got quarantined (hasn't happened to me).

Sites that I found interesting for October 30th 2008 through November 3rd 2008:

• Most Wanted Ajax Techniques: 50+ Examples and Tutorials – This list is made up of the best 50 FREE scripts available, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure.
• 40 Beautiful Free Icon Sets – Six Revisions – 40 beautiful, free icon sets that you can use in a variety of ways (websites and/or your desktop). In total, you’ll find close to 3000 invidual icons showcased in this article.
• Announcing MeshPack – Live Mesh is a unified computing environment that gives data access, device access and synchronization for all my important data and software. This means I can access anything I need from all my computers, from a web browser, and even from my smart phone. Mesh also supports sharing so that I can give someone access to a folder. It’s nicely integrated with the desktop and has a great web interface. For more information on what will ship in the first version check out www.mesh.com.