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Fake CDC vaccine e-mail leads to malware

You can ignore that e-mail that looks like it comes from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about creating a profile for an H1N1 vaccination program. It’s a malware scam, according to security provider AppRiver.

The Ultimate List of Google Wave Robots

This list has been a long time coming, and for that I apologise. But I think it will be worth the wait. In just the last month invites for Google Wave have opened right up with second and third generation testers getting invite codes of their own to distribute. Developers and users are now flooding into the [...]

Lenovo goes crazy, lets you switch Fn and Ctrl keys in BIOS

This is one of the things that drove me CRAZY about the IBM. Every other manufacturer placed the Control key in the lower left hand corner. I use Control C and Control V way too much so i really bugs be…

Google Fast Flip

Fast Flip, that tries to make online news browsing feel more like flipping through a magazine. OK, but why? The back story, according to Google Search Products VP Marissa Mayer, is this: Some months ago Google founder Larry Page asked why you can’t shuffle through web news articles as quickly as you can articles in [...]

Xbox 360 recently stopped seeing my Movie Collection

One of the key reasons behind by getting and using my xbox360  is because of its ability to be my main media server without having yet another device in my living room. As a bonus it plays games… Well recently it stopped seeing over half my collection, and I am not sure why. I have [...]

Set Themes, Not Goals for Better Time Management

It always seems like there’s so much to do and so little time to get it done. To better manage your hours, productivity weblog Zen Habits suggests that you forget about setting goals and try picking themes instead.

One Website To Rule Them All – Explosions And Boobs

Every guy out there is thinking “Why did not think of this?” and every girl is thinking “Men are pig!” I would have to agree with both statements. We on the web are a simple folk — especially us males.

The Friendly Netbook Desktop

Reader mattjb’s netbook desktop is designed to make Windows XP more friendly for the tiny display—with giant icons for each of his most important tools.

Viral Wedding Videos Are Great For Advertising

The conventional wisdom out there on Web video advertising is that most advertisers don’t want to risk being associated with user-generated videos (i.e., the vast bulk of videos on YouTube). It is only the professionally-produced stuff on portions of YouTube and Hulu and Blip.tv where the advertising dollars are going. This is the conventional wisdom [...]

Windows Mobile 6.5 [looks sweet]

Windows Mobile team at Microsoft is clearly at work these as we get to see new improvements every week. The latest Build 23022 of Windows Mobile 6.5 is out. It has got all the features ported from Build 219xx plus some more new features and improvements. The whole UI looks much more cleaner now and [...]