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How to find images for Office documents now that Microsoft’s killing Clip Art
How to find images for Office documents now that Microsoft’s killing Clip Art Derek Walter@derekwalter Dec 14, 2014 4:00 AM http://www.pcworld.com/article/2857295/how-to-find-images-for-office-documents-now-that-microsofts-killing-clip-art.html#tk.nl_pwr Microsoft is sending its Office clip art to the digital beyond, where it shall rest in glory with Clippy, … Continue reading
Explained: Here’s How Advertising Tracks You Across the Web
Explained: Here’s How Advertising Tracks You Across the Web Dan Tynan Tech Columnist November 17, 2014 https://www.yahoo.com/tech/explained-heres-how-advertising-tracks-you-across-the-102726211689.html (Thinkstock) At last week’s Family Online Safety Institute conference, the message was largely optimistic. Parents feel their kids are safer than ever online. Still, … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, nosy_ads, online_safety, tracking
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Yahoo overhauls Flickr with one free terabyte for every user
Yahoo overhauls Flickr with one free terabyte for every user TechHive: http://www.techhive.com/article/2039285/yahoo-overhauls-flickr-with-one-free-terabyte-for-every-user.html After snapping up hipster blogging platform Tumblr on Monday, Yahoo summoned the tech press to a New York media briefing. But explaining why it dropped a cool $1.1 billion on Tumblr … Continue reading
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Tagged Flickr, Photography, Yahoo
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Tested: The fastest and most reliable online storage and syncing services
Tested: The fastest and most reliable online storage and syncing services Two reports compare Dropbox vs. Google Drive vs. SkyDrive vs. Amazon Cloud vs. Box By Melanie Pinola http://www.itworld.com/consumerization-it/357224/tested-fastest-and-most-reliable-online-storage-and-syncing-services?source=ITWNLE_nlt_tonight_2013-05-20 May 20, 2013, 11:32 AM — With Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Amazon Cloud, Box, … Continue reading
Krebs’s 3 Basic Rules for Online Safety
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/05/krebss-3-basic-rules-for-online-safety/ Krebs’s 3 Basic Rules for Online Safety Yes, I realize that’s an ambitious title for a blog post about staying secure online, but there are a handful of basic security principles that — if followed religiously — can blunt … Continue reading
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Here’s a master list of over 700 free online courses from top universities
Here’s a master list of over 700 free online courses from top universities You can learn almost anything with these free audio and video courses By Melanie Pinola Article Link: heres-master-list-over-700-free-online-courses-top-universities April 24, 2013, 12:26 PM — Ready for a lifetime of learning? … Continue reading
Snack Time! Area 5 Digital Shorts – CO-OP
From: area5media | January 04, 2010 We’re on vacation this week, but we still wanted to get something out there to help fill up all that extra hard drive space you’ve got lying around. Yeah, this week’s show is really … Continue reading
Iran protests meet the social Web: What we’ve learned
June 17th, 2009 Posted by Larry Dignan @ 4:09 am http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=19845&tag=nl.e019 The aftermath of the Iranian election has provided quite a case study of the intersection between social media, the increasing difficulty of censorship and government affairs. As most folks … Continue reading
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Tagged iran, larry dignan, social media, social web, twitter
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This Week in Combat Sports for May 29th, 2009: Machida Destroys Evans
Posted by Scott Asnault at 5/30/2009 9:07 AM TWICBS TWICBS Show Notes for This Week in Combat Sports for May 29th, 2009: UFC 98 in Review Hughes vs Serra Fight of the Night? Machida Destroys Evans Who Can Solve the … Continue reading