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Archive for the ‘Science & Technology’ Category

January 8th, 2008

GoDaddy and FireFox

Okay, time for a short rant. Why in the world doesn’t GoDaddy (or someone else have a Firefox extension to let you quickly check availability of a domain name. It would be great if it would even help you manage your existing domains, hosting and e-mail.
Internet Explorer 7 lets me add a GoDaddy search […]

By Jason Bean -- 10 comments

January 1st, 2008

Top 10 Posts of 2007 on Uncover the Internet

As we move forward into 2008, let’s take a look at some of the most popular posts on Uncover the Internet for 2007.

#10 Capturing Video from the Internet
#9 Hill-Billy Clinton
#8 Sing365 - Find the Lyrics to the Songs You Sing
#7 Welcome to the Land of Regift by Panasonic […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

December 28th, 2007

Popular Science Presents their Guide to the Year in Science: 2008

If you enjoy science, and I do, you’ll probably be interested in Popular Science magazine’s guide to the year in science for 2008.
You’ll get to read about stuff like:

jellyfish
Olympics
the future
the new Internet
illegal activities

and more!
Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2008 by Popular Science

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December 15th, 2007

Yahoo E-mail Contact Problem Rant

For the last couple of days now I’ve been getting this error message when I try to send an e-mail in Yahoo! Mail. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? I can understand this error message if I’d typed in the address myself, but I select the person from the auto-complete list that pops-up automatically. […]

By Jason Bean -- 10 comments

December 13th, 2007

CAPTCHA Captured by Hackers

An article in PC Magazine by Lance Ulanoff tells about our worst pretty bad fears coming true with regards to online security. A company by the name of RMG Technologies has developed a piece of software that circumvents the CAPTCHA security being used on online ticketing websites. This was most recently involved in a […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

December 12th, 2007

Weird Firefox Issues

Not too long ago I switched back to Firefox from IE7. I enjoy having some of the extensions I used back in action and overall I’m happy. IE7 has been giving me some weird issues lately.
I go to fire up Firefox this evening though and my screen is looking weird. There’s a huge blank […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

December 4th, 2007

New Label Functionality in Gmail

Webmail clients are a popular tool on the web so I thought it would be appropriate to highlight some recent updates I noticed to the Gmail interface. They’ve expanded the functionality of their labels to allow you easier removal of labels within the same screen view instead of selecting from a drop-down.

As you can […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

November 26th, 2007

Internet DOA by 2010

Get it while the getting is good folks. This old set of tubes and the rest of the information superhighway is about to hit a roadblock and go the way of the dinosaurs, or worse dial-up!
The Web will start to seem pokey as early as 2010, as use of interactive and video-intensive services overwhelms […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

November 6th, 2007

Internet Explorer Users with Yahoo Mail

Is anyone else experiencing problems with the Yahoo Mail website crashing IE7? I just wrote about the experience I’m having at Microsoft Weblog and I’m curious if anyone else is experiencing the same thing.
Let me know if you are and if you have a fix.

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By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

November 2nd, 2007

The New Lamborghini Reventon Test Drive

Growing up, my walls were covered with posters of sports cars. I didn’t get into sports too much until much later in high school and college. I love cars that I can’t afford for some reason. I’ve matured a bit and don’t think my status in life is dependent upon my mode of transportation. […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments