10 Web Apps To Build The Next Big Thing Without Writing Any Code – Take a look through these ten solutions — which range from common, everyday type of Google Maps mashups to heavy-hitting, enterprise-level applications — and be amazed at how very little work can bring big results.
Twitter Suspends Accounts of Users With Infected Computers – Twitter is suspending the accounts of some users whose computers have fallen victim to a well-known piece of malicious software that has targeted other sites such as Facebook and MySpace.
Microsoft’s Bing Meets Hotmail – A new capability in Hotmail lets users access Bing searches from inside the free e-mail system.
Hackers Target Neopets Users – I regularly see a lot of extremely dubious and rather slimy techniques deployed to get end-users to run horrible things or fall for scams. Generally, the targets tend to be the technologically inept or granny, sitting in the corner. See granny? Sure you do, she’s right over there replying to the Third King of Nigeria and helping him out with his cash relocation problem.
Ulanoff: 10 Questions for Google’s New Chrome OS – The OS sounds exciting, but there’s no need for Microsoft to get nervous until Google answers some important questions.
Google: Top 10 Malware Sites – A recent surge in compromised web servers has generated many interesting discussions in online forums and blogs. We thought we would join the conversation by sharing what we found to be the most popular malware sites in the last two months.
Off Topic:
Quick Reference for Coping with Difficult People
9 reasons why there wasn’t stress in the good old days – Nowadays, people seem to be more and more stressed, even average people that at least apparently don’t take big gambles. Researchers have put a lot of time and money into the study of this problem, and came up with a whole lot of theories, but really, don’t let those fool you. Here’s the real deal, here’s why it was so easy in those days.
Home Brewing - from beginner to expert there is something here for all.
How to Write With Style – Kurt Vonnegut: – Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and intentional, elements of style.
Today’s Free Downloads:
Remote Desktop Manager 5.5 – a small application used to manage all your remote connections and virtual machine. It’s compatible with Microsoft Remote Desktop, Terminal Services, VNC, LogMeIn, Team Viewer, Ftp, SSH, Telnet Dameware, X Window VMWare, Virtual PC, PC Anywhere, Hyper-V, Citrix, Radmin, and more.
Firefox Add-ons & Plugins – Most popular.
Avast Home Edition – Avast Home Edition is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit package.
PhotoScape – PhotoScape is an all-in-one style photo editor with fun and ease of use. Major capabilities are: viewer, editor, batch editor, page, combine, animated GIF, print, splitter, screen capture, color picker, rename, raw converter, resizing, brightness/color/white-balance adjustment, backlight correction, frames, balloons, text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal and blooming.
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pochp // July 13, 2009 at 12:50 am
Your new Off Topic feature is great.
Bill Mullins // July 13, 2009 at 9:13 am
Hey Pochp,
Thanks for the input. I think people get a little tired of reading about all the problems on the Internet – this way, readers can have a bit of fun.
Bill
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