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Banning Websites in Offices Can Make Employees Less Productive
via Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal on May 28, 2008
If blogs, personal emails, social networks and other time wasting websites are banned at your workplace, show this to your boss.A study of office workers in UK has found that banning access to websites at work actually decreases staff productivity. Tea breaks and fag breaks have long been the most common types of break within office culture but the report shows that online breaks are fast...
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Sysinternals Live is One-Stop Shop for Launching Must-Have Utilities
via Lifehacker: not Flashback, not Stats Feed, not Linux, not Mac OS X, not Mac, not Mac Tip, not Mac OS X Leopard by Adam Pash on May 28, 2008
If you've ever done any serious Windows troubleshooting, you've no doubt come across a freeware utility or two by Sysinternals—like the excellent, previously mentioned Process Explorer. You may also know that Microsoft eventually bought up every Sysinternals utility and bundled it into a single suite of apps. Now Sysinternals has launched a new way to access their library of must-have...
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Groin Shot Is a Maybe, Baby
via Ole Bald Angus the Monk by Ole Bald Angus the Monk on May 20, 2008
... and auction houses and whatever-the-hell.And an overlay that breaks up everything into "areas" or "zones" that'll let you localize chat and do random wilderness encounters and loot selection type based on area.And then dungeons (and building interiors) would be a separate and instanced thing from that.So I need to make me some kinda cheesy build-your-own-dungeons-n-interiors thingie too.
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Google Health Launches
via Lifehacker: not Flashback, not Stats Feed, not Linux, not Mac OS X, not Mac, not Mac Tip, not Mac OS X Leopard by Gina Trapani on May 18, 2008
Lots of people search the internet to self-diagnose health problems, look up medications, and find doctors and hospitals, and Google hopes to consolidate all that info for you in the newly-launched Google Health. Enter your medical conditions, allergies, medications, test results, and more into Google Health, a personalized one-stop shop for health and medical information. You can even import...
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TOS Violation as Federal Crime
via Kill Ten Rats by Zubon on May 16, 2008
Lori Drew has been indicted for using MySpace. If you haven’t heard of the case, she allegedly created a false profile as a teenage boy, started an online relationship with a neighbor girl, then drove her to suicide. I turn to Orin Kerr for the gamer-relevant part:To understand this case, you need to understand the government’s theory. The indictment is not charging Drew with harassment....
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How to Cram All Your Travel Gear in One Bag
via Lifehacker: Top, not Windows, not Linux, not Firefox by Adam Pash on May 13, 2008
Now that most of the major airlines have begun charging an extra fee for checking a second bag, National Public Radio's All Things Considered tackles the art of one-bag packing, interviewing Doug Dyment, owner of previously mentioned OneBag.com. In the piece, Dyment suggests that the key to a one-bag trip is making a list of your must-haves and sticking to it. In all the story offers some...
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Compare Us To TF2 Say Battlefield Heroes Devs
via Rock, Paper, Shotgun by John Walker on May 13, 2008
If you ever want to make an MMO developer mad, and why wouldn’t you, keep mentioning World of Warcraft when you’re talking to them. It’s the big unmentionable, the competition they know they’d have no audience without, but want to pretend doesn’t exist. Even the fine folks at EA Mythic, they behind the genuinely comparable Warhammer Online, tend to refer to Blizzard’s beast as,...
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YouTube flagging videos of content owners
via Download Squad by Danny Mendez on May 14, 2008
Filed under: Internet, Video, Google, web 2.0YouTube has been linking copyrighted videos uploaded by third parties to their respective content owners. This occurred with a Modest Mouse video, which YouTube linked to the official Modest Mouse page. The link says "Contains Content From: Sony BMG," and it may be YouTube's way of preventing content owners from removing videos uploaded by fans. Up...
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How to find any email with Gmail search
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 05, 2008
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerThe sight of someone scrolling through hundreds of email messages trying to find a specific one is like fingers on a chalkboard for me. With a few tricks, you can use Gmail to find the exact message you're looking for, without all the scrolling.If you don't get a ton of mail, just typing in the words you're looking for usually does...
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How to Buy a Digital Camera and Ignore Expensive Hype
via Lifehacker: not Flashback, not Stats Feed, not Linux, not Mac OS X, not Mac, not Mac Tip, not Mac OS X Leopard by Kevin Purdy on May 05, 2008
Wired's How-To Wiki takes a group-edited look at the digital camera market and how a newcomer (or, more likely at this point, a buyer replacing their first, outdated model) can parse all the features and statistics to come out with a reasonable bargain. Their advice on megapixels, one of the most hyped features on any camera, is pretty reasonable:Then there is the fact that even a 3.1 MP...
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