Passwords are a necessary evil in the online world. We’re going to give you some tips on keeping your all important passwords private.
PC Magazine recently released a list of what they claim are the 10 most commonly used passwords by computer users.
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Google Launches Google Health For Medical Records
Search engine giants Google have progressed another step on their plans to dominate, well, just about everything, with the launch of Google Health, a health information service that combines their high tech search technology with a user’s online personal health records.
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The Worst Web Site Of The Year?
Currently being lauded as a prime candidate for the Worst Website of 2008 is this eye-sucking monstrosity at Havenworks. com.
Described by a visitor to the Web Pages That Suck website as “too awful to even even think of a comment,” the site as Havenworks looks like it was designed by a hyperactive, colour-blind designer in 1996 and manages to fail on just about every count when it comes to user friendliness.
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PM Gordon Brown Launches YouTube ‘Ask The PM’ sessions
Gordon Brown. perhaps the least dynamic PM since John “yawn” Major, is looking to get down with the Web 2.0 Krew and get all interactive on our PCs.
In an attempt to attract younger voters, the PM is launching an online version of prime minister’s questions, promising to respond to video clip questions sent in via the Downing Street YouTube website.
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Firefox 3 Gets First Release Candidate
Mozilla has released its first Release candidate (RC1) for the third version of its hugely popular Firefox Web browser.
Mac Aqua Built In Silverlight!
A Microsoft developer, Intersoft in Indonesia, has developed a Mac Aqua clone … in Microsoft’s Sliverlight.
The product, WebAqua, doesn’t hide its similarity to Apple’s Aqua interface, it even celebrates it with phrases like, “perfect for helping you bringing Mac-OS look and feel to your next-generation Web application.”
Chengdu Earthquake: More Citizen Video: Devastation And Flight on Motorbike
Further to our pieces on normal people taking photos and videos of the actual earthquake in Chengdu and it effects, we’re grateful to Garth who sent us this video.
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Chengdu Earthquake Captured By Citizen Mobile: Video
We covered yesterday morning how photos taken by individuals in Chengdu, China and posted to a mobile social network site had beaten news reports to publishing the story.
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Chengdu Earthquake Photos From Public’s Mobile Phones Beat Newspapers
We’re all aware of how the news media has been changed by the use of photos and video shot by members of the public and sent in to news desks.
They provide the instant captures of the moment events happen and enables viewers of the news to be in places that news crews just can’t get to. Early examples of this was the London Tube Bombings.
The latest we’ve come across is the shocking earthquake at Chengdu in China.
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Olympus Announces E520 dSLR
Olympus is prepping a new Four-Thirds E520 dSLR for release at the end of the month.
We were such big fans of its predecessor, the E510, that it earned a place in a place in our our Best Budget dSLRs Of 2007 rankings, so we’ve high hopes for this one.
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