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Don't Forget to Vote Project Vote Smart - 2004 Presidential Candidates For information on voter registration, candidates, and more, the Project Vote Smart site offers a wealth of information. The League of Women Voters also has a tremendous website with a wealth of information on the election including links to State websites listing polling places. If you are interested in projections, you may enjoy Electionprojection.com or Gallup Poll projections.  Posted by WEBnME @ 10/30/2004 03:42:00 PM 
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Just In Time for Halloween http://flashdepot.netfirms.com/129580_pumpkinSim[1].swf Check out this wonderful halloween, interactive flash. This one is great for kids. You can electronically carve a design in a pumpkin and see how it looks with a candle inside. Enjoy. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/29/2004 12:40:00 PM
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Your Computer At Night http://www.rio.com.br/animation/iconstory.htm Ever wonder what happens on your desktop at night? Check out this clever flash presentation. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/28/2004 10:32:00 PM
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Strictly Geek Stuff - New Do It Yourself Mag http://www.oreillynet.com/oreilly/make/ If you love technology and like making things, you'll want to stop by oreillynet.com's new site for Make Magazine. Launching in 2005, this new magazine will focus on how to tweak, hack, and bend technology to do what you want. The first issue promises to explain how to do aerial photography with a kite. The magazine is intended to help you learn how to make things using technology. Worth a look. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/21/2004 11:23:00 PM
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Desktop Search Tools The Challenge: How do you sort through all the files that you've saved on your computer to find what you need, when you need it? How about e-mail too? Until recently this is has been a difficult chore and most of us have had to create hierarchies of file folders and e-mail folders to try to manage. Now many great tools are emerging that can help sort the clutter. Top Free Contenders: Copernic Desktop - See also CopernicMeta and Google Desktop Search offer some of the most comprehensive free solutions. Copernic Desktop: Copernic Meta paired with Copernic Desktop looks to be the superior choice. It adds a search box to your tool bar that can query both web content using any search engine you want and it has a second search box that will allow you to search your own e-mail and desktop files. These search boxes are always available and you don't have to open your browser to search. Initially it does take a long time to index all of the files on your system, but after that searching for information is a snap. This tool only indexes what is on your system. When you delete something, it is no longer available for a search. You can also decide whether to have this only available to you when you login or to others that use your computer (assuming you have a separate login for each person). A good review is available at SearchEngineWatch.com - A New Player in Desktop Search. Google Desktop Search: Google Desktop Search integrates with your browser only. The results of your search include both results from your own desktop files and web pages that you've visited. Google makes copies of all your e-mail, AIM conversations and visited web pages for its search pool. The downside is that if you delete an e-mail or close an AIM conversation, the content is still on your computer. If you are sharing your computer with somebody else, this means your private content or things you have deleted are still available. Like Copernic's Meta, Google's Desktop search also takes a long time to index your system. A great review of this new tool is available at Yahoo! News - Google's Desktop Search is valuable, yet creepy Considerations: With any desktop search tool, you should be asking how your privacy is being protected. (Read the privacy policy and license agreement) If you delete a file, is it really gone? Can others access personal content? Are results shared outside your computer? Do you really need this capability? If you read and delete e-mail and surf just for liesure, you probably don't need the extra capability. If you do a lot of work on your PC, both of these offer valuable capabilities worth consideration. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/17/2004 01:44:00 PM
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Incredible Lego Church Website http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/ Awesome! This site features photos of an astonishing LEGO project involving some 75,000 pieces used to create a church that is seven feet long and five and a half feet wide. This project exhibits tremendous creativity and goes from mere building-block stacking to art. There are also other projects at http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/ that are worth a good look. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/16/2004 11:24:00 AM
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Pending Anti-Spyware Legislation in the U.S. Bill Summary & Status The House of Representatives has passed a bill (HR 2929) aimed at providing civil penalties for the distribution of spyware, phishing, and other deceptive practice. The bill has been passed to the Senate for consideration with the title "Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act (SPY ACT)." Earlier the House of Representatives passed the Internet Spywere Prevention Act (HR 4661) which includes criminal penalties for the use of spyware to commit fraud or other crimes and adds two years to existing federal sentances. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/13/2004 10:52:00 PM
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Windows XP SP2 - The Plunge Having remained somewhat sceptical about XP SP2, it was not without a tremor that I decided to test it on a machine that was showing signs of instability after running for three years. The XP install on the test machine had lost its ability to manage memory and very frequently barked with warning messages advising that I was out of system resources. I could never open more than a dozen windows without this issue cropping up despite replacing hardware, registry edits, new memory and a host of other upgrades and fixes. It appeared that the system was doomed, so why not use it for a test install? First I decided to install a second operating system on a clean hard drive to see how the install would go with the hardware and attached devices. I did a fresh install of XP and then applied XP SP2. It was painless and worked well right off. I installed Symantec's Anti-Virus and the Symantec Personal Firewall. After that I disabled SP2's firewall and anti-virus monitoring because they did not discover Symantec. All went smoothly and I had a working operating system sufficient to Ghost the old hard drive and operating system to recover, if SP2 failed on the wobbly system that was near failure. Next, I took a deep breath and installed SP2 on the system that seemed doomed to near future failure. This system with memory management failures and episodes of the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) seemed like a pretty good test. The install went smoothly and without a hitch. No adverse effects. I've been running SP2 now on this machine for about a week and the results are excellent. No more blue screens and no more memory problems. I was able to open over 285 windows simultaneously with some 112 applications running at the same time and the system didn't shudder or grind to a halt. The system used available RAM (3 GB on the test machine) and never dipped into the system cache. The result was a faster operating machine that was more reliable with many old problem solved. Quirks I did turn off automatic updates. I like to see what is being downloaded first and decide what I will allow and when. Today I got notifications of two new patches and allowed them to install. I decided to finish some work for rebooting. MS has built in a nag system to get you to reboot. Every few minutes a box pops up to remind you to reboot to complete the upgrade. This is annoying at best. If you have created your own home page to use as a jump point to other websites, you may find that the new security settings will clobber any java or javascript that goes out to servers to pull in content for your personal page. There is a new toolbar that pops up when a popup or dangerous code item is detected. You have to do several clicks to get all content to display, if you judge it to be safe. It would be nice to be able to train it to know which websites you trust. It does not seem to synch with trusted websites. On the install where the system was unstable, the patch did make it pretty stable and eliminated all old problems, but created a new problem. During bootup icons in the system tray do not always materialize. Logging out and back in resolves the problem, but is annoying. On the install with a stable system this did not occur. Well its time to take another deep breath and install SP2 on some laptops and see how it goes there with different configurations. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/12/2004 10:33:00 PM
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Auctions of Expired Domain Names - Call for Discussion http://alac.icann.org/ ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is encouraging at-large members to post their views on ICANN's forum on the issue of auctioning expired domain names. ICANN at-large members recently received the following annoucement: "ICANN also recently posted an "advisory" to raise awareness of plans by two registrars to begin directly selling or auctioning expired domain registrations. If registrants fail to renew their domain names at the conclusion of an expiration grace period, NSI and Tucows plan to auction the rights to these domain names, instead of allowing them to "drop back into the pool" of names available for re-registration on a first-come, first-served basis, as is currently the process. Both registrars plan to give part of the auction price to the prior registrant (NSI plans to give 20% or less, Tucows plans to give about 80%). Is this good for registrants? Should registrars have the right to control and auction these names and, if so, what is ICANN's role? What might this mean for ICANN's delete policy and Verisign's proposed wait list service? Do you have an opinion?" If you have strong views, send use the "Contact Us" link at the top of this web page to send your comments to me. I am an ICANN At-Large Member and will compile any comments sent to me over the next week and send them to ICANN. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/09/2004 01:49:00 PM
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Spam - Unbelievable http://www.spambully.com Where's my e-mail? That's one of the questions I've had lately. With all the spam, it has been hard to find legitimate e-mail. In the past 15 days my inbox has received 4199 e-mails. Of these 180 have been legitimate e-mails from somebody I know or somebody writing to me from a website. That leaves 4019 spam messages in just 15 days. That is an outrageous amount of junk traffic that is wasting time, space and computer resources. If you were getting that amount of junk mail, you'd probably take down your mailbox and hide it somewhere. I've tested other anti-spam solutions in the past and am now having a go at SpamBully which seems to be holding its own with the torrents of digital detritis that get dumped on me each day. It is identifying spam with 98.04% accuracy which is better than other products I've used and it consumes less system resources while it runs. If you are using Outlook it is a good product for consideration. While I am happy to have a good product that works well, the rising tide of spam suggests that we need stronger laws and international treaties to provide better remedies against these purveyors of garbage, sex, lies, con-jobs, and get rich schemes. Maybe what we need is a punishment that fits the crime. Maybe we need a special computerized prison where spammers are chained to a seat in front of a computer except during sleeping hours. The only thing that should be available on the computer is an e-mail client. To get a meal, to get an exercise break, or to go to the bathroom they need to be able to find a legitimate e-mail with a special release code that can be entered into their manacles to open them. Now the trick is that this release code should only be good for about 30 seconds. To make the punishment fit the crime, they need to get about 20,000 e-mails an hour with subject lines and text that mimic the legitimate e-mail. Finally, they need to get "phishing" style e-mails that look exactly like the release code e-mails. If they enter the code from a "phishing" e-mail they get an electric shock and the lock can't release for thirty minutes. Something along these lines would seem like good payback for all the time they cause millions of people to waste with unwanted and unsolicited spam e-mails. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/06/2004 08:46:00 PM
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Yahoo! - New Look http://www.yahoo.com/?r=1096902631 Get a sneak preview of Yahoo's new site design. Yahoo! explains it's new design at http://www.yahoo.com/upgrade noting that the new design is more organized, allows more customization of navigation buttons, adds local weather updates, features a new Buzz log, changes to a unified search box, moves to a streamlined directory, and allows you to see pending e-mails with your email icon. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/04/2004 03:54:00 PM
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Mount St. Helens - Volcano Web Cam http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/ Want a close-up view of an active volcano ready to blow? The U.S. Forest Service maintains a web camera at the Johnston Ridge Observatory that is trained on the crater and volcanic dome within Mount St. Helens. It is updated every five minutes with a new picture of the volcano. Although the observatory has been evacuated, the camera is still working and provides some great images. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/04/2004 03:43:00 PM
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Think Your Site Measures Up? http://www.webbyawards.com/index.php If you are a webmaster and are confident you have one of the best sites around, check out the Webby Awards. In a sense these awards are the Oscars of the Internet. Competitions are held in sixty separate areas. Entry fees range from $95 to $295 for early birds that register their sites before the October 29 cutoff date. Check out the site to see who has won in previous years. Posted by WEBnME @ 10/02/2004 06:32:00 PM
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