Mac Viruses Are Out To Get You!
I haven’t consider viruses a significant threat on Mac OS X. While vulnerabilities exist, they’re so rare I figure don’t have to worry. Yet. Then I read that Louis Gray, a well-respected blogger, got a Mac OS X trojan. It hijacked his computer’s DNS settings, replacing the banner ads appearing on his webpages with ads […]
Blab To Everyone, All At Once
I realize this blog’s turned into Tech and Emotion Central of late, but that’s all I’ve felt like writing about lately. Today’s subject: Ping.fm, an aggregator site for all you social networkers out there. Basically, you sign up with Ping.fm, and you enter your username and password for all the newest Web 2.0 sites: Blogger, […]
Yahoo! Buzz Is Not Buzz-Worthy
You may have heard of Digg, a site where users submit stories and rate them, and the highest-rated stories hit the front page. (Slashdot and Fark are similar.) Yahoo! now has its own version, called Yahoo! Buzz. It has a few problems. For one, the titles are short, as are the descriptions. Most titles are […]
Send an Email to Create a Blog…Wow!
Want a blog, but don’t want to spend time building a blog? Do you have an email address? Then you’ve got a blog, thanks to Posterous. Just send an email, containing whatever you want on your blog, to post@posterous.com. They’ll automatically create a blog, and reply with your new blog’s address. Then just continue emailing […]
Topix: Local News and Commentary
I really love this site: Topix. It displays local news stories for your specific town or county, along with forum comments. All the comments are from people local to the story, so you’ll see reactions from the parents or neighbors of those involved. You get really close to what happens.
Donate to Teachers
Rather cool website out there: DonorsChoose.org. On this website, teachers ask for classroom project materials. You donate money to whatever you think is appropriate. The teacher and students then send you thanks, via email or regular mail. You can donate as much as you want to any project. If a project falls through, you can […]
Increase Web Page Font Size Using a Custom Stylesheet
Warning! Extreme geekiness ahead, but at least it’s extremely useful geekiness. Are you annoyed with the text size on certain websites? Would you like to increase the text size on just those sites? Do you use the Firefox web browser? If you’re using Firefox, find the “chrome” directory in your preferences (location varies by operating […]
identi.ca
I’m now on identi.ca, a new social networking site, as brentnewhall. identi.ca is apparently attempting to be another Twitter, though I don’t see a lot of activity there yet. Still, you never know what’s going to be the next popular platform. A few minutes’ time will at least introduce you to them.
Robert Scoble
In concert with yesterday’s entry, in which I talked about the IMDb, today I’m going to talk about a really neat guy named Robert Scoble. Robert first came to my attention when he worked for Microsoft. He was one of the first employees there to blog seriously, and he blogged a lot. Some of his […]
The IMDb and WALL-E
Surprised how many folks don’t know about the IMDb, or the Internet Movie Database. It’s a massive online database of pretty much every movie ever made, with entries for actors, quotes, trivia, etc. And they’re all hyperlinked, so you can go from a movie, to an actor in that movie, to another movie that the […]