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A documentary about facebook.com has been playing all weekend on Bloomberg Europe. It is fascinating to learn that “500 million” people now use the service. I can NOT begin to understand how people are willing to give away personal information, in exchange of a Web presence that effectively sheeps them down, since “500 million” other [...]

In Windows XP I often did start > run > logon.scr but “logon.scr” is gone in Windows 7. While I could search for it and probably make a replacement work, the fastest solution is to go for the all black screens: start > run > scrnsave.scr

Here are some tips and notes for those running Worldwind on Windows 7: (1) After installing the application, run it ONCE, so that it can write the configuration file. Then close the application and open the corresponding XML code at C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\NASA\World Wind\1.4.0.0\WorldWind.xml The purpose of editing the XML is one setting alone: the [...]

If the path that zinio.com is going to follow is that of the Zinio 4 reader, than they’ll will lose me as a customer. It is totally unaceptable that Zinio’s brilliant path of recent years suddenly gets ruined by a single app that compromises considerable investments in libraries of magazines. Zinio 4 is really, really [...]

Opera is my favorite brower, but the latest version is doing something absolutely crazy in my view: the address bar does NOT show the full URL, by default. They are dumbing down users, thinking that users will be better served if not aware of all the URL’s details. This rises a security risk, obfuscates browsing, [...]