Tech Tips

September 2006

Online Photo Hosting

by Barbara J. Feldman September 26, 2006

Demand for online photo and video hosting is being fueled by the proliferation of digital cameras, cell phones with cameras, and the popularity of social networking sites such as MySpace.com. Photobucket and Flickr are two popular services that offer free photo hosting.

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Yuma Yuma

by Barbara J. Feldman September 19, 2006

Gary “Yuma Yuma” Broslma, unintentional star of a homemade lip-sync music video that went viral last year is back with a new video and a new commercial website . If you’ve managed to avoid all the Yuma Yuma or YouTube excitement, this is your chance to catch up.

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HotMail Clickable Links

by Barbara J. Feldman September 12, 2006

In its default configuration, HotMail does not display clickable links. You can change this for all messages from all senders (not recommended), or for a single message for one time use, or for all messages from a sender you trust. The last two alternatives can be chosen by clicking on one of the following options [...]

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Web 2.0 Defined

by Barbara J. Feldman September 5, 2006

Web 2.0 is buzzword applied to the transition of the Web from a collection of informational websites to a platform for shared data and web applications. Social networking (such as the wildly popular MySpace.com ) is often cited as a Web 2.0 application. Google’s recently released browser-based word processor and browser-based spreadsheet are also examples [...]

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