Category: Miscellanea, Windows | 1 Comment
Yesterday my friend Geoff told me he got some weird redirect spam when he visited my site. It went to some viagra type site. I did a quick look through all the things I could think of, and nothing looked odd.
However, today I came across this uncorroborated post that Yahoo ads might be distributing malware.
Thinking [...]
Category: Mac, Windows | 5 Comments
Via Digg - An attendee snapped a shot of Steve Ballmer doing a presentation at some sort of business leadership gathering, and noticed he was using a Mac to do his presentation. Here is the shot:
(Photo curtsey of Choubistar via his flickr account)
… wait for it …
Ok, it’s probably not really true ^_^. The laptop [...]
I knew it would happen eventually, but I didn’t expect this so soon. According to USA Today China now has more people on the internet than the USA.
According to the story, there are now 220 million Chinese internet users vs. 216 million USA users (USA had the world dominate usage).
The part that is really interesting [...]
Category: Chinese, Mac, Tinkering, Web Apps, Windows | 1 Comment
Another hair brained scheme…
I woke up Saturday with an idea (which is actually a joke at our house now, “Guess what honey, I have an idea!”). I wanted to have a podcast of news bits that I could listen to while I did my morning routine - the catch being I wanted it daily, and [...]
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A short video showing how to use Automator to scrape (to use an old 90’s term) and download some files. This example downloads some MP3 files by using the search engine Baidu.com.
Automator Music