Technology

Social Media-Enhanced Books: Can iDrakula put e-Books on the map?

I don't have a Kindle or any other e-reader.  It isn't that I am a Luddite, and it isn't that I wouldn't prefer something easier to hold than a large, hundred-year old print copy I don't want to ruin- it's mostly that online b ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 16 2010 - 11:28am

An Old-School Solution To 21st Century Spam: Handwriting CAPTCHA?

If you've commented anonymously on this site or thousands of others where you are not a registered member, you've come across the Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) box- and maybe you dread it bec ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2010 - 1:35pm

How to Get Control on Facebook and How The Algorithms Work

Most Facebook users think they see all their friends in the news feed and everything is okay, they just think some are just not posting. Well it might not be the case.  Facebook use algorithms, whether it be to select what is the top news, what friends to ...

Blog Post - Jean-Sebastien B.... - Oct 19 2010 - 8:42pm

Russia Has Most Engaged Social Networking Audience Worldwide- ComScore

comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of Internet usage in Russia based on August 2010 data from the comScore Media Metrix service and the data revealed that Russians are the heaviest social networkers worldwide i ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2010 - 6:03pm

RecycleMatch- Match.com, except for garbage

The worst thing government has done is get into the recycling business but even worse than that is over-doing it.   Where I live, the local government recently started 'separating' garbage, declared more things recyclable, then made the recycling ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 23 2010 - 1:01pm

Halt! Who Goes There?

Wow; I haven't gotten one of these in a long time: ATTENTION! A message you recently sent to a 0Spam.com user with the subject "[redacted]" was not delivered because they are using the 0Spam.com anti-spam service. Please click the link belo ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Oct 26 2010 - 9:43pm

Internet Cafes And Public Networks

Do you log into web sites from public computers, even though I advised against it four years ago? That post only scratched the surface, really: it just talked about using public computers. These days, most people have their laptops with them, and they con ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Oct 28 2010 - 12:13pm

Why stick with QWERTY when the keyboard is virtual?

With virtual keyboards so common, it's should be easy for alternative, more efficient keyboard layouts to make headway, since, as we've all heard, the default QWERTY layout was designed to slow typists down. So why aren't more devices (or at ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 27 2010 - 8:44am

Wireless Humans- Your Next Mobile Network

Unless you live in a remote mountain cabin, you might never be without an Internet connection in the world of the future.   Members of the public could form the backbone of powerful new mobile networks, by wearing sensors being researched at Queen's U ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2010 - 10:05am

Early photographic image of humans discovered?

It isn't the first photograph of humans but  two men near the river's edge in a photo of Cincinnati taken in 1848 is kind of a big deal among photography historians. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 28 2010 - 1:18pm