Have you ripped paper and just laughed your pants off?  Sure (!) maybe after the 10th glass but really, sober and all, have you tried ripping one and just laughed a hoot (in a not so creepy way)!  Check this out. March 21, YouTube announced the second annual iteration of its YouTube video awards and yes, under the “Adorable” category, a baby won the coveted bragging rights prize (which included a trophy and an invite to the YouTube awards night).  Posted by YouTube user gsager1234, “Laughing Baby” garnered 25.1%  of votes from out of 12 vying for the prize. Check it out right here… and laugh away with this Laughing Baby.  It’ll cheer you up I’m sure. The ...
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From January the 20th new laws will come into effect after the South Australian government voted to put new censorship laws on the net. This will mainly affect entertainment companies who sell content but may affect content already on the world wide web. Essentially, content providers will have to check the age of a user where necessary, i.e. whether a person is above 15 or 18, depending on the material being viewed. The Australian Communications and Media Authority will be able to force providers to remove content as well as links being deleted. The restrictions apply to chatrooms, websites and mobile phone content. It has been stated that there will be an ‘opt out’ option for the restrictions, ...
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AOL has a massively long history on the Internet, being one of the firs tcompanies to really get people online (even if you don’t like the service they provide). Back in 1999 there was an acquisition of Netscape Communications Corporation, i.e. Netscape Navigator – one of the leaders in web browsing. AOL played a massive role in assisting the launch of Netscape 6 – which happened to be Mozilla based (the company behind the Firefox browser) but still Netscape branded. AOL was a major source of support for the Mozilla Foundation and the company continued to develop versions of the Netscape browser based on the work of said Foundation. Whilst Netscape Navigator was used reasonably widely prior ...
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I think I lived under a rock for some time, where Yahoo is concerned. I'm a rabid Google fan, and almost all the main Internet services I use are Google-based. But there are two services that I use that are not Google-owned: Yahoo Messenger and Yahoo Mail. Recently they've done some improvements, and I was... Shocked, to say the least. Well, the e-mail storage becoming unlimited in space elicited not much of a shock in me. Rather, my reaction was: "Well! It's about time!" But what made my jaw drop was... Yahoo's "OMG". OMG indeed!
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This game might just make you (or your kids) realize how fun it can be to do some household chores. Chore Wars is a web-based role-playing game. But instead of fantasizing you're a blood-sucking vampire or a white-haired wizard, you're yourself, in a party, doing chores. Wait! Think of the possibilities! Each chore is a new adventure. Say it's cleaning your own room. You can get other people to help you out with it, or do it by yourself. And what could possibly be exciting about that?
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A report by Jupiter Research has suggested that a 'two tier' Internet could come into place in the near future. It would enable ISP's to charge businesses for quicker access to consumers. This is bad news for the customer for two reasons: first that trend could be reversed and second that trend WOULD be reversed when the business passed on the costs to the end-user. This idea of charging stems from the basic economies of scale operating within the broadband business. In the UK, over 65% of households have a computer, with a high percentage in that bracket having high-speed home Internet access. To keep their margins, ISP's must continually have new customers, as well as ...
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Amidst all the cries of ecstasy over Mac OS X Leopard at the WWDC07, we have a little surpsrise: Safari is released for Windows. It's a public beta, to be exact. That's great news, coming not from someone who wants Apple to take over the world, but as a web designer who wants to test web pages in all kinds of browsers. I haven't been able to do that on Safari since it's always been released on the Mac exclusively. It's also a great idea to discover a new browser every once in a while. Find out which one has features that best suit your taste. After all, Steve Jobs claims it's twice as fast as Internet Explorer and 1.6 times as fast as Firefox. Problem is, right after downloading and installing Safari for Windows I ran into two major problems right away.
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Before Netscape.com turned into a social voting website (read: Digg clone), before Firefox graduated from the Mozilla Application Suite and became the darling of net geeks and casual surfers alike, before Internet Explorer emerged victorious from the First Browser War using the classic Microsoft tactic, and before people understood the value of a web browser, there was Netscape. It was actually called the Mosaic Netscape browser then, since the company started out as the Mosaic Communications Corporation. Netscape---both the company and the browser---has gone through ups and downs but today it stands tall, having released version 9 of the classic browser this June 5th. Here are some highlights of the latest version of Netscape Navigator:
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More than 40,000 new blogs are created each day. This is huge. Times that by a week even, and you've got a vast number. A phenomenon. Blogs give people their own space to write what they want, when they want. They are also reasonably derestricted in what they say, and how they say it. Blogs though are only the tip of the iceberg. The web is added to (and to a much lesser degree taken away) every day. People add content just about everywhere. Text is more dominant than images or interactive components, but they're all growing. The 90/10/1 rule still applies (whereby 90 might read, 10 may comment and 1 ...
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My confession is that I used to be one of those lucky people who literally received no spam - at least not the traditional sense.  Due to an increasing amount of emails flowing across servers at some point I got caught out.  I obviously was put on a dreaded white-list on a spam server.  Now I receive emails - probably in excess of 8 a day - prompting me to buy VIAGRA, CIALIS and look at all manner of depravities. It is horrible.  It also feels more of a personal attack that physical junk mail.  Aside from the psychological impact, spam at its' worst is meaningless drivel peddled out one person in the literally thousands who clicks on the bad link. Most ...
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