CNN television reports that a woman caught two young men who stole her Palm Pilot. She went to Craigs List and arranged to meet with them. They tried to sell her Palm Pilot back to her. She also obtained identification of one of them, from his MySpace account.
Using social media to right wrongs…
The Chinese government denies hacking into the Dalai Lama’s computer network and spreading a virus via email, to his supporters. Even web gurus make boo-boos. Well, more like their editors did. Check out the erratum for Zeldman’s book, Taking Your Talent To The Web. A book I intend to purchase, BTW. And before I forget,…
As of time of writing, this UK computer magazine poll indicates that Firefox is the second most-used web browser with a respectable 17% out of 537 votes (including one from myself). Sleeping in the public library? Another New Yorker deals with high costs of living by staying in a 27-foot camper van. Nullsoft have done…
Zeldman and Stopdesign to revamp Apple.com. Can it get any better than this? CSS guru Eric Meyer launches his new consultancy website. One for the ladies: Eating dark chocolate is good for you, according to this Reuters Health report. It contains antioxidants.
Avid surfers: Suffering from information overload? Wired’s top news story on news aggregators got me checking out a few alternatives to Feed Reader, which I currently use as a free, standalone program to read my favourite weblogs and other syndicated news. In the end, I settled for Newsmonster, which integrates with your web browser. This…
Avid followers of Second Life news would have heard of Crayon, the first new media marketing agency to be established in this virtual world. Well, since I couldn’t break into IBM land (see previous post), I decided to try my luck with an agency that welcomed visitors. Here’s a shot of Crayon from the outside….
After hearing the buzz about Gmail offering IMAP access, but also hearing that this new feature wasn’t rolled out to everybody yet, I decided to check if my account had it. Sadly, it didn’t look like it and I thought, maybe it’s because they’re enabling it for the earliest Gmail users first. Then I checked…