The boons and banes of social networking.
Seven sex offenders were arrested for violating their parole by going online and posting profiles on social network MySpace. Data was provided to Texas police by MySpace. This is part of the preventive measures done by the State to curb the victim-finding activities of these sex offenders. Many [...]

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I have to admit that I use Yahoo! Messenger just a bit more than my other IMs. It’s simply because most of my contacts and friends also use Y!M as their primary IM. However, for e-mail purposes, I’m a hardcore Gmail user. I just think the simple interface and mailbox space can’t be beat.
Yahoo! [...]

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A while back, I posted about the initial run of the Google slideshow viewer. It was only available to chosen accounts. But today seems to be the lucky day for all of us. Google just made this feature available to all.
PowerPoint attachments now have a “View as Slideshow” option. A similar feature allowing viewing [...]

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Cases of tainted food from superstores continue to come up. While there’s still the salmonella scare in peanut butter, here’s another one on E. coli tainted beef sold at Safeware stores in Arizona.

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If you’re a PB&J fan or simply a peanut butter fan, then you might want to pay attention to this news. CNN reports that there are now 628 cases of salmonella illness reported in 47 states all related to bad peanut butter.
The outbreak that started back in February has now risen to 628, a rise [...]

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StumbleUpon changed my computing life. It lessened my time looking for relevant sites and reduced my battle with Google and search keywords. And this news will probably affect all that. StumbleUpon has just recently been acquired by eBay for $75M.
As far as the news goes, there really isn’t a concrete picture of what one [...]

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Hot off the news and into your computer. Google just made available Google Gears (BETA). It’s “an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.” These include:

Store and serve application resources locally
Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Imagine web [...]

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Computerworld published this list of 10 computer skills . If you’re and IT professional who’s still focusing on anyone of these areas, you might want to reconsider upgrading your skill sets now. Many business have upgraded and many schools are phasing them out in the curricula. You just might be unemployed tomorrow.

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Great news for Gmail users. Gmail is now allowing bigger file attachments up to 20 MB in size. I know this has been on the news since yesterday but I just finally got it in my account.
Here’s the news bit from the Gmail’s What’s New page:
Increased attachment limit– 20 MB!
Now you can start sharing [...]

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The scuttlebutt has now been confirmed, Web giant Google is acquiring Feedburner, the RSS management service that lets users keep track of RSS feed subscriptions even monetize it through ads. TechCrunch wrote the following story:
Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate [...]

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Take that, spyware bastards!
The US House of Representative passed an antispyware bill Tuesday on a voice vote. In a bill sponsored by Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California, and Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia, unauthorized access to a computer to commit computer scam will now be illegal. For such an action, you may [...]

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If there are areas in your house that can get greasy, chances are, it’d be your garage floor next only perhaps to your deep fryer or range top if you’re a frying fiend. Oil spots can form from occasional oil drips and spills on the garage floor since cars often leak a small amount of [...]

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A while back, I featured a freeware that lets you look into your celebrity look-alike. One thing I can say about it is that the database is quite limited. In that case, web apps can’t be beat since these usually have a larger database that’s updated continually over a downloadable freeware such as Gina [...]

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Here’s another neat way to download YouTube videos but this time, it’s not in FLV format anymore. Vixy is a website that automatically converts YouTube videos from its format to a format of your choice.
Just enter the URL of the YouTube video and choose a file format. It supports conversion from YouTube’s FLV format [...]

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Here’s an article by The Associated Press that’s republished in many journals and papers - Schools banning iPods to beat cheaters.
So kids have it much better nowadays and even the adventure of cheating in exams have gone hi-tech. But is banning gadgets from school a stop-gap solution?

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