15 years ago Rwanda was the scene of massive genocide. Today the country is working to transform itself become an Internet hub of the African continent.
This is a good video by Internet Evolution, and shows that the Internet’s not just about big companies and catch-phrase ideas like Web 2.0. You can’t really see or know [...]
On the Google blog, Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj posted an article today called “We knew the Web was big…” which indicates Google engineers recently noted that the number of Web pages on the Internet passed the one-trillion mark. That’s 1,000,000,000,000 pages. For those who don’t process the impact of adding that many groups of [...]
I especially appreciated the Mojave Experiment that Microsoft recently shared with the world (where Vista-negative opinions were tested with a “new” version of Windows, code-named Mojave; it was then revealed to the participants after seeing the new version that what they were looking at was actually Vista). I’ve been using Vista since well before I [...]
For the past several months I have had the pleasure of improving my communication effectiveness while at the same time reducing my reliance and the massive amount of time I used to spend on email. Tools like Twitter, blogging, and - yes - actively making sure I am using the telephone (remember that thing?) have [...]
Microsoft’s Steven Lindsay posted a video a couple months ago showing his top five things you didn’t know you could do with your Media Center PC. Cool tidbits for people who want to get deeper into using a few more of the capabilities of Windows Media Center. Worth the viewing time.
Windows XP Media Center 2005
WinTV-HVR-1800 [...]
Mark Russinovich, a Microsoft Technical Fellow, presented a very good session at the TechEd IT Forum last year on the topic of advanced eradication of malware on Windows machines. It’s a great session and has some useful advanced techniques for removal. It is also a very good resource for those who want to better understand [...]
Vista SP1 is available (details in the document available at this link and Ed Bott did a great what-to-expect write-up and FAQ), so it’s time to head on over to Windows Update (it’s in your start menu) and grab it. Assuming it shows up in the available updates list, of course. Apparently there are certain [...]
Guy Kawasaki and a couple of his friends recently fired up a site/service called Alltop, which displays a variety of popular topical areas in which various popular blog/news feeds are aggregated. Think of each of the topical sites as a one-stop-information-shop. High-level topics include the categories of Work, Living, People, Interests, Culture, Geekery, Good and [...]
Favorday is coming on March 12th, and it’s being organized on Facebook. Nothing quite like doing something simple and kind for someone else to make the world a better place. You should be a part — spread the word!
Here’s how you celebrate Favorday — on Favorday, March 12th, 2008, you do planned favors for people, [...]
The FBI is contacting more than one million computer owners and operators whose computers have been victimized and taken over by fraudsters and other criminals who have installed “bots” which they then use to launch distributed criminal computer attacks and fraud scams.
“The majority of victims are not even aware that their computer has been compromised [...]
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