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Here’s an interesting stats that shows how people spend their time online, looks as if most people don’t even surf the web but actually check their e-mails online. Of course, second majority spends their time “searching” on search engines.
It’s surprising to note that “using a social networking site” only makes up 15% and that blog readers are only “10%”.
Anyways,
For those of you worried about web browsing security, you might want to use Firefox and this HTTPS Firefox add-on which automatically switches your browser to HTTPS whenever it’s detected.
I think this is a great idea, especially for any sites that need a login and they usually provide HTTPS versions.
Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.
The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YsQ6f125GY&feature=player_embedded
YouTube, my favorite online video site, is now allowing you to edit your videos online using their new beta tool. Right now you can edit videos (that you have uploaded) to make a new video with audio of your choice. Now if they can add more features like adding custom logos, I would start using it all the time.
If you want to try it, go here.
Gina Trapani, founder of Lifehacker and one of my favorite hackers, shows you how to setup OpenID for your own websites so you can use one OpenID to sign into multiple websites. This seems like a great idea for bloggers like myself who have at least a dozen different blog logins.
Why didn’t I think of this?
Best of all, this OpenID hack only involves just two HTML lines:
<link rel="openid2.provider" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud?source=profiles" > <link rel="openid2.local_id" href="http://www.google.com/profiles/ginatrapani" >Wow, WordPress 3.0 is out just now, it’s the most “impressive” WordPress version so far. I won’t be actually installing it on this blog until they work out the kinks/bugs but here’s some really cool features:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQm2B6BqU1I&feature=player_embedded
Are you working on a project that involves detecting people in certain spots in spaces? Well, here’s an interesting Twitter hacking device that “detects” RFID tags and “tweets” based on that. This could be great extension for your project that needs detection via RFID and communication through Twitter.
Adobe, who was banned from iPads/iPhones with its flash technology months earlier and caused a havoc among the tech world, has announced they will actually be shipping a new app that will allow magazine publishers like Wired to make an interactive magazines for iPads. (like we saw with the Android Tablet prototype) Also see running it on Windows 7.
I believe this is just Adobe Air being
I’ve never been sucker for new “beta” versions of Skype but for those of you who need to kill to be on the bleeding technology of VOIP technology, knock yourself out by downloading the new Skype Beta 5.0 for Windows here.
This beta version comes with a free trial of group video calling. Video call up to four of your friends – all at the same time. Everyone on the call will be able to see and hear each other.
Note: group video calling currently wor
Electrical What is a new site aimed towards making identifying/learning about electronic parts easier. I took a quick look at their site and it seems like it’s a pretty good reference point.
For those of you just starting out with circuits or just getting back into it, check out and bookmark Electrical What for your future electronic circuit projects.
WHAT IS ELECTRICALWHAT?! Frustrated by the difficulty of searching schematic symbols through long lists with little information led to the creation of Elec
