Category: Websites
Google launches 'neighbourhood watch' malicious website warning system
Google has teamed up with the Stop Badware Coalition to warn its users when they may be about to visit a web page that contains malicious or deceptive code. If a user clicks on a search result that may…
WOTD: Politically Erect
OK I've been very bad and not posted a website of the day for two whole days. By way of making up for this sad omission, today I'm linking to a site that should keep you either laughing or…
Friday interview: ex-Egg man Tom Ilube on how garlik will fend off the personal-data vampires
Personal information can be a touchy subject. Who's holding data on you, and what do they know? What are they using it for? Should you do something about it, and if so what? These are increasingly common questions, but…
AOL giving 5 gigs free onliine storage to every AOL/AIM user
AOL have said that they'll give 5 gigabytes of online storage to every web user with an AOL or AIM (AOL instant messenger) screen name, from September. They'll use the XDrive service which they acquired last year. According to…
Bath Scientists Develop ‘Empathetic’ Art
Computer scientists at the University of Bath, in collaboration with the University of Boston have developed software that creates images that changes according to the mood of the person looking at it. The program uses facial recognition techniques to…
Yell sees red over YelloWikis
Lawyers for Reading-based Yell, the company behind good old Yellow Pages, have started pursuing a 15 year old girl – Rosa Blaus – and her father, for setting up YelloWikis, a free-to-edit 'Yellow Pages for the 21st century'. Perhaps…
200 Million Firefox Downloads and Counting
Mozilla is celebrating its 200 millionth Firefox download, though it acknowledges that number doesn’t represent the actual number of users, not everyone completes the download and it must include a fair number of upgraders, nevertheless it is an impressive…
WOTD: The Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer
Today's Website of the Day is the Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer. Upload a digital photo of yourself (or anyone else) and apply a number of transformations to it: age, gender, race, artists impressions, or other caricature. Nominate your own…
Weirdest uses for a MacBook Pro
OK, this is just plain weird. I'm sure you know the stories of early MacBook Pros overheating, and you're probably aware that since the latest Powerbooks came out, they've had motion sensors built in to protect the hard drive against…
WOTD: Geek Technique
Today's Website of the Day is Geek Technique, an interesting commentary on gadgets and gizmos. Recent posts include the Awesome OMGWTF patches, using heatsinks to organise your life, and watching the world cup in lo-def, and there's plenty more…