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And now I can type whatever I want in the middle.

This year’s “word of the year” for 2009?  The New Oxford American Dictionary says “unfriend:”

To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.

Although I understand how popular this word is, it’s a little depressing . . .

[from CNN]

Firefox Turns 5

The Mozilla Firefox browser is ready for school!  It turned 5 on November 9th.  Stop by to wish it a happy birthday!

In the June 2009 issue of Consumer Reports, they compared the best software for protection against viruses, malware, and spam.  Interestingly, in addition to comparing commercial suites, they also looked at freely available software and came up with a “suite” of programs that could protect you as well as most of the commercial products.

The three recommended commercial suites are:

The three freely available programs used to create a suite are:

Although using the software is economical, it may not be efficient.  With separate programs, installation, maintenance, and updating can take three times as long. Whether it works for you depends primarily on your budget and resources.

Twitter is now “out of this world.”  On May 12, 2009, one of the space shuttle astronauts sent the first tweet from space:

From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!

Mike Massimino had been twittering for about a month about his training.  So, a tweet from space was the next step!

[from ComputerWorld]

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission has funded 6 TexTreasures grants. This grant focuses on making special and unique collections of photographs, oral history interviews and historical documents more accessible through digitization.  The winners are:

This grant is a great resource for Texas libraries looking for funding for digitization projects.

digitization

of special and unique collections of photographs, oral history interviews and other
historical documents, making them more accessible to all.

Want to see how good you are in spotting phishing schemes?  SonicWall created a quiz to test your knowledge — the SonicWall Phishing and Spam IQ Quiz.  Good news?  Test-takers are better able to spot a phishing scam now (86%) versus 2004 (69%).

I got 8 of 10 correct; how’d you do?

[from CNET News]

Common Craft has posted another great video on how to use some of the more popular web 2.0 services — this one on Twitter Search.

Ever since I first heard about the cell phone being “the” device we’ll all use, I’ve always been sceptical.  I’m not comfortable with the form factor for doing things other than making phone calls and, although I use it for Internet and texting, it isn’t easy. John Dvorak has ideas of what it would take to make a cell phone “the” device in an article in PC Mag.

I’d add one more thing — e-ink for the screen.  As much as a cell phone could do, if you can’t see it, it’s useless.

The Mom Song

OK– so there’s nothing technical about this one, but I had to post it.  It’s for all the Moms out there —  and even for those of you who had Moms.  See if it reminds you of anyone.

[from My Uncle]

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