Why You May Need an Online Persona
Employers are realizing that what people do online can actually prove their value as potential hires, not just rule them out based on drunken photos or revelations of other past missteps. Last year we saw articles like Overexposed in the Blogosphere warning how people
’s online behavior and misbehavior might ruin their careers.
Why the RIAA doesn’t want defendants exonerated
The RIAA’s legal strategy in its war against file sharing has been nothing if not consistent. Recent events show that the music industry’s consistent refusal to exonerate defendants may end up working against it.
Rosetta@Home Distributed Folding Coming to Xbox 360?
When asked about it on the project’s message board, head scientist and developer David Baker said that “we have been discussing this idea with Microsoft quite a bit over the past several weeks; I will keep everybody posted.”
Top 10 Most Popular Brands on Digg
What brands are the most popular with the Digg audience? Here is an analysis from the last year on what brand names are mentioned the most on the Digg homepage.
Apple TV, it’s on! USB is now working
After furious efforts and many different methods, the AppleTV now has USB support. This is a HUGE development
for the appleTV community. Details can be found at the awkwardTV wiki. Congrats to all who worked on this.
The future is very bright for this wonderful little device from Apple. Much respect to haxor Turbo for his work.
10 things you should do to a new Linux PC before exposing it to Internet
There is no such thing as a perfect or completely secure computer operating system. Will the machine be a desktop computer or a server; purpose is a key to understanding how to initially install and configure your Linux PC.
Origins of the word w00t
Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term, “w00t”.
“w00t” was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for “Wow, loot!” Thus the ter…
Screenshot Tour: A look under the hood of Quicksilver
On Monday we took a beginner’s look at Quicksilver. We covered a lot of territory, but I didn’t address Quicksilver’s extensive and somewhat confusing preference pane. Dive into the gallery below for a detailed explanation of each component of Quicksilver. Understanding this bit will go a long ways toward increasing your Quicksilver power.
MOG 2.0′s YouTube Mash-up: What MTV Should Have Become
The online music/social networking site MOG just launched a new 2.0 version with a killer YouTube mash-up feature for creating your own automatically-customized video channel from over 150,000 music videos on YouTube.
