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One of the best Firefox extensions available, DownThemAll lets you download the links or images contained on a Web page.
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Think of a rootkit as a cloaking device for enemy vessels: Rootkits allow security threats such as Trojans and spyware to covertly operate on your system. Sophos Anti-Rootkit helps you locate rootkits and remove them from your PC.
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Despite Microsoft's claim that the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) program works almost flawlessly, there is strong evidence that WGA is far from perfect. Computer guru Ed Bott claims that close to a full 42% of the Windows installations that are flagged by WGA as not valid turned out to be perfectly legitimate.
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Avoid 10 common Web design mistakes that can cause the public face of your commercial enterprise to fall flat. Applying the experiences and the lessons learned from previous designs can make your own Web site design a productive and valuable addition to your enterprise.
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The IE VML exploit is now becoming more widespread. If you have not taken measures yet, please consider some emergency fixes to cover the weekend. The exploit is widely known, easy to recreate, and used in more and more mainstream websites. The risk of getting hit is increasing significantly.
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What works both as an employee and employer when it comes down to traits and habits of great employees.
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Here are the top 10 self-destructive workplace habits sure to endanger ones longevity on the job.
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The new TryEngineering Web site (http://www.tryengineering.org) has all the information you might want on engineering careers, and it adds a helpful dose of interactive activities. The site aims to inform students (ages 8 to 18), teachers, school counselors, and parents about what engineering is and what engineers do.
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Enter search terms to find relevant sample code from nearly 700 O'Reilly books. The database currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, comprised of 2.6 million lines of code all edited and ready to use.
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Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
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"Some of the best-known laptops are contaminated with some of the worst toxic chemicals. Of the five top brands we tested Hewlett-Packard and Apple laptops showed the worst contamination levels."
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ClamAV claims that the open source process enables it to respond to new malware threats quicker than the commercial antivirus vendors. In fact, on any given day, the group will publish a dozen or so new definitions protecting its users against the latest viruses, worms, and Trojans.
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You can't build a compelling presentation that communicates your message if your slides are cluttered, text-heavy, or ugly. These tips from design pro Garr Reynolds will help you develop presentations that are professional and inviting.
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CNN explores the possibility of midterm e-vote hacks. You should wonder why elections boards across the US aren't doing anything to address the numerous problems with paperless electronic voting machines. These machines, primarily made by Diebold, leave no paper trail, there is no way to verify votes.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Dialing while driving could cost California motorists up to $50 under a bill signed Friday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The new law will bar using hand-held cell phones behind the wheel.
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Knowing a handful of programming languages is seen by many as a harbor in a job market storm, solid skills that will be marketable.
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Since terrorists attacked the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, the government has begun a robust, and oft-criticized, electronic-surveillance program, but other IT-related security projects designed to thwart terrorism have made little progress.
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Google, MSN Search, Yahoo!, AOL, and most other search engines collect and store records of your search queries. If these records are revealed to others, they can be embarrassing or even cause great harm. Would you want strangers to see searches that reference your online reading habits, medical history, finances, sexual orientation, or political affiliation?
posted by Bob Clay @ 10:17 AM
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WE ALL HAVE A STAKE in protecting the environment, and that includes producers, users, and recyclers of electronic equipment. Governments around the world are pressuring both users and producers into environmental virtue through regulations, mandates, and directives. But a new program, based on a new IEEE standard, aims to entice rather than coerce
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We can't compromise our principles for gain. How can we say we're all about spreading freedom while rolling over on censorship requests from dictatorships?
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As a participant in the 2,996 Tribute Project, I dedicate this post to Jorge Velazquez, one of the 2,996 men, women and children that lost their lives that fateful day.
I didn't personally know Jorge. What I do know is that he was 47 years old and was in the Twin Towers when the planes struck. Jorge lived in Passaic, NJ. He was working as a security guard at Morgan Stanley. Jorge died while helping people out of the building. His surviving family and friends lived through unimaginable horror and shock when the unthinkable happened.
During life, Jorge spent a great deal of his spare time feeding people who would have gone hungry otherwise. He was a very caring person. Shakima Velazquez, his daughter-in-law describes Jorge as a loving father, a loving man, a man who care for other people and lent out a helping hand whenever he could.
Jorge did not die in vain. His death helped bring this nation closer together. Many of us have been known to criticize the foreign policies of America, and perhaps took sides with the opposing, knowing full well that it is a priviledge that we have the freedom to do that in this country. But when push comes to shove as it did that day, our hearts were with our country and our people.
In Jorge's memory, I hope that our government will have the wisdom to work so that no more innocent people will have to perish remembering that our goal should be to seek justice, not revenge. Otherwise it means the terrorists were successful in destroying our way of life, our belief in individual civil rights and the judicial system.
God bless you Jorge Velazquez.
posted by Bob Clay @ 1:49 PM
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While office politics are commonly regarded quite negatively as a culture rife with back stabbing, gossiping, and brown nosing, it also has a very strong upside. Learn how to use office politics in a positive way.
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Terrafugia, Inc. is developing the Transition, a road-able aircraft in that will be able to land at the airport, fold up its wings, and drive on the road.
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PDF TextOnline Is a new (Beta) Ajax application that allows you to upload PDF documents right from your browser and convert them to text that you can easily copy past any where you need without the hassle that you usually gets from Adobe Acrobat or other PDF viewer.
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After Dell and Apple, Panasonic has begun recalling lithium-ion batteries used in Panasonic-brand notebook computers in Japan on concerns they might overheat.
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State's Assembly and senate overwhelmingly favor security warnings on Wi-Fi network gear.
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Verizon Wireless this week accidentally distributed a file with limited details on more than 5,000 customers outside the company, potentially giving identity thieves a toehold.
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Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV has announced a new phone that allows users of Skype Ltd.'s Internet telephony service to make calls without having to boot up their PCs.
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Planning for any digital disaster means protecting four key assets: the physical facility, the computer hardware and software, the data communications or network, and, most importantly, the information itself. In the case of most organizations, three of the four assets are easily replaced.
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Security technology is so readily available, and much of it for free, that it's almost difficult to not be using it. Why, then, do malware and security violations proliferate at the speed of light? It's usually us, according to industry experts. We're the weakest link.
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A study released the week of Aug. 28 by Menlo Park, Calif., staffing firm Accountemps found that one of the most common mistakes made by candidates in job interviews was having little or no knowledge of the company, according to 47 percent of the senior executives surveyed.
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