Pergamum storage - Apr 23, 2008
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There is a risk that an entire generation’s cultural history could be lost if people aren’t able to retrieve that data. Everyone is going digital but will this data last 50, 100, 1000 years? A new power-efficient initiative at UCSC could see us making the same kind of storage leap from tape to disk as occurred with VCR to TiVo. #
Facing up to Yahoo! - Apr 21, 2008
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Yahoo is now integrating images from your Facebook page right in its search results. A good or a bad thing? Depends on what image you’re projecting on Facebook when that prospective employer decides to search on Yahoo to check your references. #
Fighting malware with Google - Apr 18, 2008
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A new friend of mine and a fellow Rush fan discovered his site had been hacked and then labeled malware by Google. I pointed him to the official documentation and now it’s just a matter of waiting before his fan site is resurrected from the depths of Google’s malware crypt. #
Super iPod on the way - Apr 18, 2008
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Fancy an mp3 player with a 500,000 gigabyte capacity? With that amount of storage space you could probably store every song ever written and a whole lot more, around 300 millions songs. Thanks to British research into molecular switches, that’s the future we may see when computing goes chemical. #
Outranking Alexa - Apr 18, 2008
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Alexa (the geeky (alleged) spyware toolbar company) has finally recognized that it’s ranking system is outmoded and, to put it bluntly, rubbish, and has updated the sources it uses to generate traffic data for websites. Great news for Sciencebase as it’s now back in the top 100,000 and Sciencetext is heading that way too! #
Tweet Clouds - Apr 17, 2008
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Yet another web 2.0 tool to help you waste time. This one creates a tag cloud for your twitter username. #
Working from beach Apr 16, 2008
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If you’re a homeworker but fancy a trip to the beach, now you can spoof your whereabouts using your iPhone to convince your boss you’re actually in your boring, old office, thanks to Swiss researchers. #
Purdue piracy - Apr 16, 2008
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Good news if your a filesharer at Purdue University. The U just established its own private P2P network for students and faculty to share all the files they like with no chance of the RIAA intervening. #
Aristotle’s business advice - Apr 15, 2008
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Public scandals, such as the Enron affair, the sub-prime mortgage problem, and the ensuing global credit crunch have led to dwindling confidence in the business world. A transatlantic study suggests that relearning the ancient notion of virtue could help bring business and society closer together. #
Find a blog - Apr 15, 2008
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Wordpress.com has launched a new search feature with a magic secret sauce algo that homes in on the exact content you’re after rather than serving up splogs and grogs. #
Big Pando power - Apr 11, 2008
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Share files up to 1 Gigabyte via any email or instant messenger (IM) regardless of other limits. #
Instant tourism - Apr 11, 2008
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Would you like instant access to information on the buildings and scenery you see on your travels” A novel mobile phone programme, able to provide information on what you see when you see it, was a regional winner in the European Satellite Navigation Competition, sponsored by ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme. #
Europeans will not disconnect filesharers - Apr 10, 2008
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Controversial plans to disconnect file-sharers from the internet were condemned in the European Parliament this morning when MEPs voted to avoid adopting measures “conflicting with civil liberties and human rights and with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness”. #
Searchable Google Docs - Apr 9, 2008
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Google Docs now lets you run advanced searches for documents, spreadsheets and presentations. You can search by document type, date modified, who the documents are shared with and more. Once you set up a search, you can save your search criteria to easily run the same search at a later time #
Digg bugs - Apr 5, 2008
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Digg submissions, commenting and general Digging are in disarray because of a Bugg at the moment. It could be a good time to break your addiction. #
Free movie downloads - Apr 5, 2008
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You can download DRM free movie torrents free and legally…if you’re in Sweden using Headweb. The system may become accessible to other torrent programs in the future. Watch this space. #
Portable fox - Apr 3, 2008
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I’ve talked about PortableApps elsewhere on this site, but here’s a novel use for the system - download and install the portable version of Firefox 3 and run it from your USB drive without messing up your version 2 install! #
OpenID avoids spam - Apr 2, 2008
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Social bookmarking site ma.gnolia is to allow new accounts to be created only if you have an OpenID in an effort to reduce the number of spam signups. It’s the next wave, as I’ve reported on Sig Figs before. #
Sig Figs on Alltop - Apr 1, 2008
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All-round good guy, Guy Kawasaki, has added the Sig Figs site to his news dashboard - Alltop.com - which means yet another great place for readers to catch the top headlines. #
Google Offline - Apr 1, 2008
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It’s no joke, Google has announced that soon you will be able to work with Google Docs offline. This will make Google Docs a true Office killer. #
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