A movimentação dura em meu laptop estava começando assim que firmemente para o espaço que eu não poderia mesmo realizar algumas das tarefas as mais simples porque havia somente um quarto limitado para uma lima da troca, limas provisórias não estava sendo escrito corretamente, e…

É seu sair da lista dos contatos de GMail/GTalk da mão, é ele uma lista burgeoning dos todos com quem você aconteceu apenas ter tido um IM menor ou a troca do email. Como você sabe provavelmente, Gmail/conversa adiciona automaticamente correspondentes…

Alguma hora há, eu observei que a busca Desktop de Google (GDS) já não posicionava meus email de Thunderbird. Dawned de repente em mim ao tentar encontrar um grupo inteiro das mensagens que eu soube para um fato que eu tinha recebido…

NGC 2.4 ativos é uma ferramenta do Hacker! Nenhum não é! Eu pensei que se realizava por um momento. ZoneAlarm relatou que havia uma parte maliciosa de código que reside em meu dobrador de Windows system32 que vai para trás o nome de DartSecure2.dll e…

Este vídeo pequeno puro explica a importância de figuras, de arredondar-se, de exatidão e de precisão significativas. Encontre para fora porque adicionando uma única gota da água (de aproximadamente 0.05 ml) a um copo do café que é aproximadamente 200 ml devem nunca ser…

Em 27o setembro 2007, este local disse do re/occurrence do Search Engine que corta por spammers [veja Hackers Shanghai Google, advertindo ]. Although this nefarious activity was known to the more savvy members of the Internet community, it had remained relatively unpublicized…

Some websites don’t look the way we want them to look, they don’t have the functionality we need, and sometimes they do stuff we really don’t want them to, like displaying stacks of ads or spawn popups at every move.…

Some time ago, I discussed how to move from a system like Blogspot to your own web address and the option to do a 301 redirect from that Google-owned system to your blogger custom domain name. It’s definitely worth the…

TechCrunch alerted me to an interview by Thomas Crampton with Ogilvy China’s Kaiser Kuo and others. The interview discusses the current state of web 2.0 development in China. Of particular note is Kuo’s description of Chinese P2P file network Blin.cn…

Now, I’m not staking any claim on being a significant figure, but if you’re here, then you might as well know that I’ve added a “Find Me Elsewhere” section to this blog. It’s over in the right-hand column, towards the…

Want to view and perhaps even control security cameras on the web? What about finding sites that are not spidered (simple trick using robots.txt)? How about spying on a webmaster’s Frontpage user information or their VNC info, easy with some…

These days, I seem to do almost all of my reading online, I bet you do too. When was the last time you picked up a print magazine, or perish the thought, a book that didn’t have an “e” in…

Did you think you bricked your iPhone by installing third-party upgrades or unlocking it? An Apple firmware upgrade may have rendered it unusable. Shame on you Apple! There may be salvation thanks to the latest version of AnySIM, as reported…

Want to attract readers to your blog and make them stick around? The first stage is to write magnetic headlines. In the olden days, when we used to take a morning paper rather than scanning Google Reader and importing newsfeeds with…

Still not sure what to do with all those little orange icons that seem to litter web sites and blogs these days, including your very own Significant Figures? This little video explains the ins and outs of blogs, rss, feeds,…

Wondering whether to opt for free email from Google or Yahoo? You could use both of course, forward one to the other and fall into an endless spam-free loop. Or, you could check out this CNet video in which the…

In July I made a decision, over on Sciencebase, to restart the old podcast. Originally, I’d recorded half a dozen using microphone and soundcard. I even did a little guitar jingle. They’re all still available as mp3 files, but the…

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net has saved me an awful of time and energy by producing this amusing short video, imagine a guy of similar stature without the glasses, no facial hair, and perhaps a trendier light fitting in the office and…

If you run a blog, you’ll have probably checked out your incoming links either in technorati, or if you’re using Wordpress, in the Dashboard. If you’re like me, you will have been puzzled by some of those so-called incoming links,…

If you have ever wanted to know what Google really thinks with respect to searching, SEO, and web spam, then no doubt you will have come across the name Matt Cutts on your travels. Here’s Mr Cutts, - or is…

I once ran a Wordpress plugin on the Sciencebase site that used the translation engines of AltaVista’s Babelfish and Google to generate an international version of the site in any of more than a dozen languages. It worked very well,…

How many times have you come across this annoyance when you are posting a comment to a blog? The form entry boxes are just too narrow, you cannot check that you typed your email address properly, and what if you’ve…

Did you read the headlines? Apple has issued an iPhone update that could disable the device permanently, they claim. Maybe you have unlocked your iPhone to use a different cellphone network to the one you were tied to when you bought…

Most of us connect to the net without a second thought, we switch on machines, boot up modems and let our internet service provider do the job of routing our browser’s requests for web pages etc. As you know, behind…