* Gearhead: A salmagundi for CD and DVD creation * Backspin: Astounded by things legal * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: A salmagundi for CD and DVD creation
Every now and then we have days when things digital just get us torqued. Days when applications bomb, files get corrupted, the network clogs up and software does something that is just simply irritating.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: Astounded by things legal
I am astounded. No, not over Melinda Dolittle getting booted from “American Idol” (although the gods know that was a bizarre and irritating decision on the part of the great unwashed). I am astounded by things legal.
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Free Online Virus and Malware Scan
I just switched my AV software to Avira’s AntiVir Personal Edition Classic. I ran a scan immediately after installing it, and it alerted on c:winntbrowser.exe, claiming I had a trojan. My old software hadn’t been complaining, so naturally I wanted a third opinion. Enter Virustotal.
Digitizing Books One Word at a Time
reCAPTCHA is an effort by the Carnegie Mellon University to use those little security programs called CAPTCHAs to correct OCR errors in the Internet Archive project.
Questions, Questions, Questions
Yet another test of something that I’m going to discuss in the Network World Web Applications newsletter: Subscribe now or wait until the issue hits the archives.
Pew Internet Releases New Spam Report
A new report from the Pew Research Center concludes: “The volume of spam is growing in Americans’ personal and workplace e-mail accounts, but e-mail users are less bothered by it.”
In Web Applications: Getting around Web filtering
In my Web applications newsletter this week, I look at proxies that might let you get around them. Thoughts?
