Beginning in August 2011, download.com changed their own installer to add adware, malware, and browser toolbars to the software that users wish to download.
Accusations have included the surreptitious installation of a trojan installer and a browser hijacker. …
AVOID download.com 😦
download.com is owned by CNET and CBS. Boycott both, if you can.
Use the curated app stores run by Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. 🙂
Have I dreamed of the PERFECT to-do list and workflow?
YES I HAVE.
So have the good folks at Brain Toniq:
If you dreamed of the “perfect system” what attributes would it have? We think it would:
Keep everything in one system (versus one way for one kind of to-dos and another method for other types of to-dos).
Allow you to group items in different ways, so that you’re not staring at all 80 to-dos that you’ve written down. Instead, you can look only at “Downtown” to-dos, or “My daughter” to-dos. You can sort by priority, where, who, what.
Allow you to remove emails out of the Inbox and into your to-do system …
Be where you are, up to date, when you need it.
Allow you to approach what to do next from different points of view, “wearing different hats” and organize and view those items accordingly.
Have a way to capture ideas and to-do items when you think of them, getting ALL of them out of your head.
Keep you in control and not overwhelmed even if you have a TON of things to do.
We have created exactly this. Because of the impact it’s having on our lives and businesses, we call it The Secret Weapon, or TSW for short. …
… Hotels have also complained that streaming digital media services like Netflix are sucking up precious bandwidth forcing the hotels to invest more money into their networks and (so they claim) to keep on charging guests per day (and per device) for internet access.
But we’ve got the numbers on how much it costs a hotel to install and maintain a decent network and there’s no reason why hotels should be charging us for this service, which is just as important as air conditioning and working toilets, other than it’s an easy revenue source. …
Here’s another amazing video, likely a HOAX :), like the last one I posted.
The mimic octopus, Thaumoctopus mimicus, is a species of octopus that has a strong ability to mimic other creatures. It grows up to 60 cm (2 feet) in length. …
… not discovered officially until 1998, off the coast of Sulawesi.
The octopus mimics the physical likeness and movements of more than 15 different species, including sea snakes, lionfish, flatfish, brittle stars, giant crabs, sea shells, stingrays, flounders, jellyfish, sea anemones, and mantis shrimp. It accomplishes this by contorting its body and arms, and changing colour. …
ANDY IHNATKO is one of the biggest Mac advocates. Yet he loves Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
With the Metro user interface, they’ve created a simple and beautiful design language that’s relevant to a broad range of devices and to the ways that people use computers in the second decade of the 21st century. …
Metro is all about reducing the screen to the absolute minimum of visual noise necessary to do the thing the user has chosen to do at a given moment. There’s no overlapping windows and no menus or toolbars. When you launch a Metro-based word processor, your document occupies the whole screen. …
Every time I show this in one of my workshops or trainings, people just get it. They finally understand how using social technologies can help them work…
Rick McCharles 