Daily Cup of Tech

Dilbert.com - DNRC:

Dogbert’s New Ruling Class boasts 480,000 members. Each one of you has so much crackling mental power that flight attendants ask you to reduce your thinking when the airplane is taking off or landing.

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Daily Cup of Tech has been awarded a Bloggy Award!  I’m not certain how prestigious it is but it’s kind of cool to get the recognition.  Here is what they say about DCoT:

Visit the Daily Cup of Tech for your daily dose of anything and everything technology related. Read a wide variety of articles about Windows, Ubuntu, USB drives, other featured tech blogs, and much more.

Visual Aesthetics - 9

Simple. With enough images for visual relief from all the text. Nice header and divider. With a few ads though not too much to be really irritating.

User Friendliness - 10

Simple straightforward navigation. Uncluttered and pretty much organized sidebar. Fast enough loading time. Readable fonts. Distinct links. First few paragraphs shown only for longer posts so you won’t need to scroll down again and again just to skip posts that are not of interest to you.

Reading Enjoyment - 9

Some very enjoyable reads here but with a few rather boring posts too as you can expect from a tech blog. The “boring posts” are undoubtedly not boring though for those that find the entries relevant. The entries do not always spark a lively discussion in the comment but when it does make sure you read the comments as they add to the enjoyment AND the information you can get from the posts. BTW I really enjoyed the entry on Digg Results. I also dugg it. ^_^

Useful Info - 10

Useful as useful can be. Each and every single entry offer relevant information to at least some if not most of his readers. No need to recap all the stuff you will find here since there are just way to many topics. All you need to know is that if you want tech, here is where you’ll find it.

Overall Experience - 10

Very good tech blog. A daily dose of this blog would certainly suit me. Another blog to add to my subscriptions.

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minivmac [nothickmanuals.info]:

Running Linux, Windows or applications like Firefox, Thunderbird and AbiWord from a USB flash memory device is old hat. How about a Mac 128K or Plus on a USB key?

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Peepel - What does Peepel look like? - Online Office:

Peepel extends the multiple window desktop model to the web.

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They go by a lot of different names: history erasers, track eliminators, privacy cleaners, Internet eradicators. But, whatever you call them, their purpose is to remove all evidence of your “Internet indiscretions”. The big questions are, how well do they work and do they still leave some tracks behind?

These programs, which we will refer to as history erasers, claim to remove any trace of where you have been on the Internet and what you have been accessing on the Internet. These programs are typically marketed, quite aggressively in many instances, to people who, either accidentally or purposefully, accessed something on the Internet that they should not have.

This can be the teenager accessing adult content and is afraid her parents will discover what she has done. Or an employee who had an inappropriate pop-up appear on his computer screen while doing research for work. Maybe it is an online pedophile who is afraid that the police might somehow access his computer and discover evidence of his “hobby”. Or the concerned online bank customer worried about their password or credit card number that may be stored on their computer.

The truth is, these tools provide very limited protection against anyone who is looking for what you are doing on the Internet. They may stop someone who does not understand how the Internet or networks work but for someone who knows what they are doing, these provide very little in the way of “protection”. Following is a breakdown of what these tools can and can’t do for you.

Read the rest of the story…

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