Trusted reviews: personal computers, internet and web, webmastering
June 5th, 2006 — Internet
I think we’d have to boycott almost every company of significant size if we were to make the logic of boycotting Yahoo consistent.
The CEO of Web hosting site Freewebs says Americans should boycott Yahoo over the company’s cooperation with the Chinese government, which has helped put several antigovernment bloggers in jail. Shervin Pishevar asked Yahoo CEO Terry Semel this week whether he would have “cooperated with Nazi Germany.”
September 17th, 2005 — Internet
Copyright 2005 Elaine Currie
Internet Forums are highly popular, they cater for all tastes and deal with every topic imaginable. People visit Internet forums for a variety of reasons, the most common being the search for information or entertainment. The Internet forum is a safe environment if you behave sensibly but you can find yourself in dangerous territory if you ignore the following warnings.
Don’t Join Internet Forum Flame Wars
September 2nd, 2005 — Internet
Copyright 2005 Sharon Housley
What are consumer expectations when something is free? Realistically, consumers subconsciously assume free means free, and while that might be the initial intent rarely is it the case.
Very few things these days are free in the real sense of the word. There are very few free items that do not have any strings attached.
Companies or individuals may promote a free offer or service for any number of reasons. From branding to ad revenue, companies often use “free” to attract attention or interest. As a consumer, it is important to realize what “free” might really mean.
Linking
August 27th, 2005 — Internet
Author: Ms. Aditi Singh, M.A. (Psychology), M. Phil. (Medical & Social Psychology)
Clinical research on behavioral addictions has focused on compulsive gambling (8), overeating (11), and compulsive sexual behavior (12). Similar addiction models have been applied to technological overuse (24), computer dependency (25) and obsessive video game playing. These theories include psychodynamic and personality explanations, socio-cultural explanations, behavioral explanations, and biomedical explanations (26). Not all explain any addiction perfectly and some are better than others at explaining Internet addiction.
A dispositional model or diathesis-stress model of addiction might help in understanding IAD. Certain people, due to a variety of factors, may be predisposed (diathesis) to developing an addiction to something, be it alcohol, heroin, gambling, sex, shopping, or on-line computer services. If the right stressor, or combination of stressors, affects the person at a critical time, the person may be more inclined to develop an addiction.
August 27th, 2005 — Internet
Author: Ms. Aditi Singh, M.A. (Psychology), M. Phil. (Medical & Social Psychology)
The World Wide Web is informative, convenient, and fun. There are varying opinions on the subject of Internet addiction. Recent reports indicate that some on-line users are becoming addicted to the Internet in the similar way that others became addicted to drugs, alcohol, or gambling, which resulted in academic failure (1,2), reduced work performance (3) and even marital discord and separation (4). As the Internet increasingly becomes part of our lives, Internet addiction disorder has received much attention. The term Internet Addiction Disorder was coined by psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg. Those who are addicted to Internet may withdraw from social and interpersonal interactions other than those on the Internet. Their family relationships and academic or occupational functioning may deteriorate.
Internet Addiction Disorder: Myth or Reality?
May 7th, 2005 — Internet
Francesca Rosella an Italian designer who runs a company called CuteCircuit has developed a special t-shirt for those of us in long distance relationships. May prove popular among people who use online dating services.
The T-shirt simulates the missing partner’s breath, touch and heartbeat.
The ‘F+R Hugs’ T-shirt has fitted sensors that the designer claims realistically simulate a partner’s caress.
It is based on information on body temperature, heart beat and touch transmitted by mobile phone.
May 6th, 2005 — Internet
Moment I saw the Google Web Accelerator mentioned I went and installed it.
Later on I got a couple of proxy server errors though I don’t use one. Though the GWA may set itself up as one.
This morning any attempt to visit a website brought nothing but proxy errors. I had to rush on to work so I didn’t look into it.
Same problem when I got home. Turned off the Web Accelerator and the problem vanished.
There are problem settings I could fiddle with but my Time Warner Cable modem is fast enough for what I do which is almost all text (no music, movies, games).
Once Google’s engineers have worked on it some more I’ll give it another shot.
For more informed comment on the tool read these comments.
Yet more: Google Web Accelerator: Hey, not so fast - an alert for web app designers
April 29th, 2005 — Internet
Author: shuth
The web has made it much easier to get information about people, including old friends and classmates, old boyfriends/girlfriends, ancestors, celebrities, politicians, public figures, criminals, and even your next-door neighbor. There are various opinions about this new flow of personal information. Most of us seem quite pleased to be able to get the information we need, but we’re not necessarily happy if others can get the goods on us!
What follow are a few tips about finding people via the web. It can be harder than you think. Although many people access the internet on a daily basis now, they often use screen names that are known only to their friends. Other people, particularly women, tend to change their last name once or more often during the course of their lives.
Who is relatively easy to find on the web?
April 14th, 2005 — Internet
Author: The Add Me Team
*** What is ROR? ROR (Resources of a Resource) is an XML format for describing the content, objects, and structure of websites in a generic fashion so search engines and other web applications can find and understand information more easily.
For example if your website is selling products, ROR enables you to document your product names, descriptions, prices, images, availability, affiliate programs, etc. Or if your site or blog provides information on a given topic, it allows you to describe how this information is organized (sitemap, topics, categories, new information, archive, blogroll, etc). ROR also provides terms for documenting objects such as contacts, articles, newsletters, feeds, images, audio, links, reviews, privacy policy, copyrights, and more.
*** ROR File ROR information can be easily added to your website by adding a ROR File called ror.xml. ROR is actually quite simple. It is built on top of RDF, the W3 Resource Description Language (http://www.w3.org/RDF). If you are not familiar with RDF, don’t worry, we won’t go into any details here.
With ROR, all objects are represented by a <Resource> tag, and can optionally have a <type> property to determine the type (or class) of the object (e.g. Product, Article, etc). The other properties are determined by the type you choose. Here is a simple example of a Product object described by ROR:
April 7th, 2005 — Internet
Author: Jesse S. Somer
Web sites are places to get to know and understand each other as real people. Web sites are not just places to sell things; they are a medium where people can get insight into other people’s lives. Take the musician Xavier Rudd for example. I recently saw this guy play at a concert and had never previously heard his music. He was really cool, literally blowing me away with his many skills, beautiful music, positive energy, and humble attitude. So being thus affected, I decided to check out if he had a website on the Internet. After finding his site (http://www.xavierrudd.com/) I automatically got to become more acquainted with the man, not as a fan looking up to a so-called ‘star’, but as a human being receiving real insight into the workings of another individual in our global human community.