Topic: WEB - on March 9, 2007 at 9:24:00 AM CET
Random live webcams from the Net
These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques. Their owners might or might not have intended for them to be public. But they obviously are. Many of them are security cameras in companies or semi-public places. If you hover over the picture you'll see what location information is available. If you click on it, a window will open and you can see a live video feed, plus comments and ratings and other information. 1399 webcams are available as of last scan.
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Topic: WEB - on March 7, 2007 at 12:14:00 PM CET
Good news sh1.antville.org is not currently censored in China
Test a website address and see if it’s blocked in China.
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Topic: WEB - on March 7, 2007 at 9:39:00 AM CET
Fake professor in Wikipedia storm
Internet site Wikipedia has been hit by controversy after the disclosure that a prominent editor had assumed a false identity complete with fake PhD.
The editor, known as Essjay, had described himself as a professor of religion at a private university.
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Topic: WEB - on March 6, 2007 at 2:51:00 PM CET
The 50 Most Important People on the Web
Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling on their keisters as much as the next person, but without the folks who create the Craigslists, MySpaces, and YouTubes of the world, much of the Web's potential would be lost among spam sites and other online detritus.
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Topic: WEB - on March 5, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM CET
45 Fresh, Clean and Impressive Designs
Sometimes it’s just amazing to see, which level of usability, legibility and visual appeal can be achieved using some basic design techniques. In fact, some talanted web-developers manage to deliver powerful, functional and gorgeous web-design in “look-and-feel”-style, which is easy to use and nice to see.
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Topic: WEB - on March 2, 2007 at 1:29:00 PM CET
BBC strikes Google-YouTube deal
The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube, the web's most popular video sharing website, owned by Google.
Three YouTube channels - one for news and two for entertainment - will showcase short clips of BBC content.
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Topic: WEB - on March 1, 2007 at 2:58:00 PM CET
The Web's Best Interface Design
The amount of new web applications, features, and companies sprouting up is just astounding, and while some like to characterize "Web 2.0" design as involving lots of cliché diagonal lines and shadows it still takes a lot of skill to execute an attractive user interface.
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Topic: WEB - on February 28, 2007 at 11:09:00 AM CET
Top 20 Less Known BitTorrent Sites
We all know about mininova, The Pirate Bay and Torrentz, but what few know is that there are a host of less known torrent sites that also have some great, and sometimes rare, content. Here are 20 of these less known torrent sites.
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Topic: WEB - on February 25, 2007 at 1:00:00 PM CET
From Gutenberg to Google
Google's mission is to organise the world's information, but what effect is this having on the oldest information technology - books?
In the slow moving book industry there have been few seminal moments. In the third century BC, Ptolmy II of Egypt established his great library at Alexandria and commanded all visitors to the city to surrender their books to be copied by his scribes.
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Topic: WEB - on February 25, 2007 at 12:50:00 PM CET
FLASH MP3 PLAYER 3.5
The Flash MP3 Player is the easiest way to add live music or podcasts to your website. It supports playback of a single MP3 file or an RSS/XSPF/ATOM playlist, a wide range of flashvars (settings) for tweaking both behavior and appearance and an extensive, documented javascript/actionscript API.
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Topic: WEB - on February 24, 2007 at 10:44:00 AM CET
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 Release Notes
Security Update: The following list of security issues have been fixed. Windows Vista Support: Many enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista are included along with the following caveats. New Languages: Beta releases for several new languages are now available for testing. Permissions Bug Fixed: In the German (de) locale on Windows and Linux, resolved a problem with certain files tagged as read-only.
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Topic: WEB - on February 20, 2007 at 3:55:00 PM CET
Skype Program Accused Of Collecting Personal Info From Users' Computers
It's the kind of thing that can creep people out when they use the Internet. Officials with eBay's Skype Internet phone service say a computer program ended up collecting identifying information from users' computers. Executives from the company insist the data was never used improperly and that the software itself has since been updated. But some critics have said the problem could have been serious.
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