An interesting view into how students live today. I’m thinking that it depends what degree you study on how much work and classes you have to do - 3 hours of class + 2 hours work a day is much less than I did, and I only graduated last year!
Also, noone brought laptops to lectures [...]
Here’s a new screenshot – shows seemic integration, not something I’m particularly excited about… Looks like it still has the scroll bug it used to have as well…
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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
Really interestingly made video, definitely worth watching!
Covers the history of the internet in a really creative way.
With the release of Microsoft’s Invite2Messenger, we can now get all our Facebook friends out of Facebook, and into our address books. Useful for finding your friends on other sites, as well as for emailing them!
1. Go to: https://www.invite2messenger.net. If you get a warning about the security certificate, just allow it.
2. Choose Facebook (other sites [...]
Icons exist for the following programs that are no included on the Eee – perhaps these were planned for inclusion at one point.
Find these at /opt/xandros/AsusLauncher. Use ls | grep iptv in that folder to find the filename for iptv for instance.
iptv
kturtle
kvisio
openarena
planner
skool
splashtop
supermario
xterm
music store
googleearth
webstorage
Xterm is available by pressing ctrl – alt – T, but the others [...]
Pageflakes is a customizable start page that allows you to add small widgets or flakes that can display custom content. They have recently launched a prepopulated page designed for teachers.
Default layout of the Teacher’s Pageflakes page
The default items on the page include a teaching timetable, a calendar, email, online file storage, some educational bookmarks, [...]
Ever wanted to draw a picture of what you want? Try Retrievr, it lets you draw a quick image, and in real time searches for images on flickr that look like your sketch. Really quite amazing - no idea how it works, but it’s good!
As reported by the BBC, Yahoo have reached a deal with Adobe that allows them to place adverts in a panel inside Adobe Reader. This is the first time that Adobe have allowed dynamic adverts inside their software.
Luckily, there is a myriad of alternatives now that the PDF format has been opened including:
For Windows:
Foxit [...]
As reported by Computer World UK malware is shifting towards intercepting traffic inside the browser - a kind of man in the middle attack, rather than keystroke logging or phishing. This style of malware would intercept the password entered on the webpage using exploits in the browser. How about this solution to combat [...]
After reading TechCrunch’s thoughts on unhappy Diggers leaving for Mixx, I tried it out myself - it’s definitely an improvement on Digg… It’s got a much nicer look and feel to the site, it’s quicker, has a pictures section, and allows other users to tag and categorise existing stories. Overall - it seems much more [...]