Password pants-off at Lloyds Bank (4)
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Rogue staffer tinkers with login trousers Updated: Set yourself a rude password at Lloyds TSB, and it is just possible that you might find it changed to something politer. That was the experience of Lloyds customer Steve Jetley, who attempted to set "Lloyds is pants" as his telephone banking password.…
BackType, A Twitter For Comments (38)
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BackType is the newest YCombinator startup to launch from their summer program. They’re a blog-comment focused startup - founders Christoper Golda and Michael Montano are for the first time aggregating all comments from millions of blogs into a single, searchable, parsable stream. Think Twitter for all comments on the web. They are not like the recent barrage of startups focusing on cleaning up the comment experience on blogs - see Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, etc. Blogs ...
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lkratz said:
ça marche pas mal ce truc
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Colide81 said:
This reminds me of friendfeed.
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Jeffrey said:
dangit, another idea i had implemented in the real world =/ sigh...
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That Kid from Omaha said:
This looks to be very useful.
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Bill Shakes said:
worldtv search?
Back to School: 10 Great Web Apps for College Students (64)
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For a lot of college students, the new semester is just around the corner. Last year, we created a long list of great Web 2.0 tools that we thought would be helpful for college students, but given how fast things develop on the web, we thought we would revisit this topic again this year and look at some of the most useful Web 2.0 tools that have the potential to help students do better in ...
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izensun said:
大家都快開學了阿?
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catepol said:
take note
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Bob Hazlett said:
I had the idea of a rate my professors site back in 99. Glad to see someone pulled it off.
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Jbud1 said:
Hey all you college kids! Check out the tools that make your lives easier! They are great!
2008 Quought for the Day #15 - Dave Taylor (2)
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Background: This is part of the Quought for the Day - 2008 Series. Quought = Question that provokes thought! The question I asked thought leaders and my very smart friends is: What is ONE question that you wish someone had asked you when you were young? And, Why? I will be posting answers (which will be Quoughts) one by one.This one is from Dave Taylor Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980, ...
Alt Text: A Wistful Geek Heads for Sweet iPhone Hell (1)
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I do not, as of yet, own an iPhone. However, soon my cellphone provider will be unlocking the door, shooing away the rats, taking off my shackles and releasing me from my contract. At that point I will be buying an iPhone. Not because it's a shiny new Jobs-job, not because several of my friends have it and keep waving it at me, but because I clearly need it. I require its functionality for such ...
Little Yellow Lego Guys Turn 30 (1)
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This week marks the 30th anniversary of Lego's introduction of the "minifig," the friendly yellow characters that add a human element to those iconic, plastic bricks.
The Seven Deadliest Social Networking Hacks (2)
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Think you know who your real online friends are? You could be just a few hops away from a cybercriminal in today's social networks
Eight Tools for Capturing Screenshots in Firefox 3 (19)
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It isn’t difficult to imagine that we need to take a lot of screenshots during the course of a day here at Mashable. Sure you can do the old “Print Screen” trick, but that’s a lot more hassle than it’s worth when there are so many great options out there, especially if you are using Firefox as your browser. Here are eight Firefox 3 screenshot tools that are worth trying. These tools will do everything ...
First Opera 9.60 Preview (4)
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Just days after the Opera 9.52 release, the Opera Desktop Team has posted the first preview of Opera 9.60. Highlights include: Opera Link synchronizes more data, adding custom search engines and typed history (i.e. URLs that you type into the address bar). Feed previews when you click on an RSS/Atom feed, so you can look at the content before subscribing. Mail improvements including: Low Bandwidth Mode. In this mode, IMAP will only synchronize new messages ...
Virus Infects Space Station Laptops (Again) (1)
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A password-stealing virus infected laptops on the international space station, though NASA says no mission critical equipment was affected. It's also not the first time a computer virus has made its way into space.
3 Unique Search Engines of the Future (40)
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The internet is a whole lot of nothing without a search engine or two. While the staying power of search engines has never been in question, it's been interesting to see how they've evolved to the point of replacing the address bar. With more information being published on the internet and different filters for interpreting this information being created, here's a look at a our picks of unique search engines that are making headlines and ...
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Santosh said:
Personally, with the amount of bandwidth we Indians are faced with, I don't think these will make any impact here. :-/
Back To Work: How to Get Back to Organized (34)
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Editor: Welcome motivational speaker Jason Womack in his first guest post here at Lifehacker on getting back onto the productivity wagon. It's time to shake the summer sand out of your shoes, get back to the office and dive into all of your work commitments. But what if your productivity system is still sitting on the beach, sipping a pina colada? Don't worry. With a little tuneup, you'll be able to climb back on the ...
Why We Are All Insane (9)
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Extreme X-Rays: Photographer Nick Veasey Takes You Inside ... Everything (1)
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Veasey is one of the few people who know how hard it is to get a crisp x-ray of a vacuum tube.1 For starters, the object has very little mass to absorb the radiation. And because the edges of the tube curve away from the film, the x-rays get scattered about, causing distortion. So Veasey shot this tube in a series of 10-second bursts. The succession of blasts builds up the energy necessary to capture ...
Most Sung-About Body Part? The Eyes Have It (1)
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Quick -- what body part is mentioned more often in song than any other? The eyes have it. Visual artists Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg analyzed over 10,000 songs and built an interactive graphic work that correlates musical genres with the body parts they mention the most, as part of their ongoing Fleshmap project.
Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source, But Bookmarking is Dying (16)
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There has been a lot of brouhaha over Ma.gnolia going open source and I’m not sure most of it is justified. There are certainly features that work to Ma.gnolia’s advantage, but even though embracing open source and data portability (among other features) improve the service, they are unlikely to make it competitive. Not only is Ma.gnolia minuscule compared to Yahoo’s Delicious (recently relaunched to version 2.0), but compared to Yahoo’s Buzz and Digg, even Delicious ...
More vs. enough (41)
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Lesley reminds us of Hertzberg's work on hygiene. It's not just theory, it's a vitally important marketing concept. It's easy to believe that joy lives on a simple curve. If you give me more of what I want, you give me more joy. If one baseball game is good, season tickets are better. If $300 an hour for consulting is good, $400 is better. Improved = more. It turns out, though, that there isn't just ...
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aElian said:
wow, never thought of it as "hygiene" but this really resonates w/ me!
Photo Shows Stars Born in Huge Cosmic Wombs (3)
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2008 Quoght for the Day #13 - Jack Hayhow (1)
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Background: This is part of the Quought for the Day - 2008 Series. Quought = Question that provokes thought! The question I asked thought leaders and my very smart friends is: What is ONE question that you wish someone had asked you when you were young? And, Why? I will be posting answers (which will be Quoughts) one by one.This one is from Jack Hayhow Jack Hayhow is founder and “Chief Executive Servant” of Opus, ...
