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I've Never Donated BeforeI know exactly why I made the dontation. (I've never made a donation to a site like this before; in fact, I've never seen a computer site that asked for donations.) I made the donation because of three things: (1) the very generous 50% discount, (2) the high quality of your backup article (which confirmed my earlier decision to buy Acronis True Image 8.0) which included observations about specific shortcomings in the software and (3) the winsome, gracious, candid tenor of your website generally and your request for financial support in particular. In other words, I made a small donation because you are who you are. Isn't that the way the world generally works? People hire you because of who you are, expressed largely by what you've already done. All the best to you in the months ahead.
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In search of: Tool to show multiple (hard drive) temperatures in the system trayI'm looking for a utility to show multiple hard drive temperatures in the system tray so i can tell at a glance the temperatures.
Other features that would be nice would be:
Anyone have any recommendations?
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Is Antivirus Software a Waste of Money?Interesting points here -- nothing really new just confirmation that an antivirus program is not going to catch the newest attacks: The problem is that most criminals are smart enough to test their attacks against popular antivirus products. There’s even a free website called Virus Total that lets you see whether any of the most popular malware scanning engines will spot your Trojan program or virus. So when new attacks pop up on the internet, it’s common for them to completely evade antivirus detection. http://www.wired.com...e/2012/03/antivirus/ |
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Web Link Captor - PC World ReviewVery nice long writeup at PC World today about my unique and underappreciated jewel of a program, Web Link Captor, which has a userbase you can count on one hand: http://www.pcworld.c...r,4/description.html Web Link Captor would be a cherry pitter, something I would need maybe once every few months for a very specific task--but does its job like no other tool can. |
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Are Creative Commons Licenses Even Enforceable?A very well written article that raises a lot of questions about the enforceability of Creative Commons licenses. A good read and a lot to think about if you release works with a CC license or use CC licensed content. http://c4sif.org/201...es-even-enforceable/ |
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The problem with online adsSome very wise words from Clive Thompson over at Wired magazine on the subject of charging for your software or service. It's a very blunt assessment of the whole problem with the notion of "monetizing" as opposed to selling something. This very short article is called: Clive Thompson on the Problem With Online Ads. And it should be required reading for anybody who is considering some of the nonsense passing for common wisdom about online revenue opportunities. (except follows) I predict that in 2050, we’ll look back at the first 20 years of the web and shake our heads. The craptacular design! The hallucinogenic business models! The privacy nightmares! All because entrepreneurs convinced themselves that they couldn’t do what inventors have done for centuries: Charge people a fair price for things they want. |
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Today is Your Last Chance to Remove your Search History from Google's New PolicyFrom ITWorld: Google announced in January it would unify most of its services under a single privacy policy and a single set of data-gathering tools that will arrange all Google's useful data on each of its customers in an efficient database, from which it is much simpler to sell that customer as a commodity to advertisers looking for specific patterns of behavior. |
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