September 30, 2008

You’re Sick. Now What? Knowledge Is Power

"Often patients begin a medical search hoping to discover a breakthrough medical study or a cure buried on the Internet. But even the best medical searches don’t always give you the answers. Instead, they lead you to doctors who can provide you with even more information."

"The Mojave Experiment:” Bad Science, Bad Marketing

"So I have to admit I’m not predisposed to like The Mojave Experiment, where Microsoft took a bunch of “regular folks” XP users who were afraid of Vista, and told them Microsoft was going to show them a secret new operating system — which was actually Vista."

September 12, 2008

Stopforwarding.Us Asks Your Friends To Stop Spamming

Simply entering their name and email address and clicking send will fire off an anonymous message asking them to give it a rest.

September 09, 2008

Feature: Hot Image Your PC's Hard Drive with DriveImage XML

Discusses what happens, and options, and restore strategies. Includes an instructional video.

September 07, 2008

Quote of the Day

"The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: 'If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?' ...

"Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance. "We do nothing wrong when we make love or go to the bathroom. We are not deliberately hiding anything when we seek out private places for reflection or conversation. We keep private journals, sing in the privacy of the shower, and write letters to secret lovers and then burn them. Privacy is a basic human need."

- Bruce Schneier, "The Eternal Value of Privacy".

September 04, 2008

Snag a pretentious street address for your snail mail

... and get the mail sent there scanned and sent to you by email.

September 03, 2008

Take one guess what RoundMyCorners does

It rounds the corners of images. And it does reflections. Do I win?

Ultrasound to give feel to games

"The power of ultrasonic waves has been harnessed to produce "virtual" objects in mid-air. "