Yahoo dumps delicious and I explore some alternatives

Various tech news sites such as ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch yesterday reported, on the basis of a leaked PowerPoint slide, that Yahoo planned to shut down the social bookmarking service delicious. 24 hours later delicious finally provided an official response to the news on its blog. The post suggests that Yahoo is seeking a buyer for delicious. [...]

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Fact vs fiction

Science fiction: Artwork by Freddy Lopez Jr. from the Iron Man Fan Art Gallery. Science fact: Soaring Over the Alps on Homemade Jet Wings – Wired blogSwiss ‘Fusion Man’ takes to skies – Taipei Times

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Installing Ubuntu Linux

I have an old laptop which I rarely use. It had Windows 2000 installed on it. I decided to install a Linux operating system as an experiment. I downloaded Ubuntu Linux 8.04. The download is an ISO image. To convert this to a readable CD I used BurnCDCC. This program is very simple to use [...]

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My first video production

I rarely use the video function on either of my digital cameras. However, when I went to the temple festival in Xinzhuang on Saturday I determined to capture some of the events on video. There is so much action at these events that it is impossible to convey the entire experience with photos. The beating [...]

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Upgraded to Firefox 2.0

I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 today. The install was very easy. There were a few plug-ins that I was using in Firefox 1.5 that were incompatible version 2.0 and these were automatically updated the first time I opened 2.0. One of the most noticeable new features is the spell checker. It just underlines words that [...]

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Watching DVD movies on a PC

After I bought my computer I thought I would be able to watch DVD movies without any problems. I put a movie in the DVD drive and selected “play with Windows Media Player”, but then found I lacked some of the necessary software. I was lead to this page and this page on Microsoft’s website. [...]

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Skype me!

I bought a new computer a few days ago. My apartment has an ADSL line, but not a phone line, so I thought I would try Skype as an alternative way of making phone calls. I downloaded Skype and paid for 10 Euros of credit with my Visa card. I bought a USB phone and [...]

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