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How Most Personal Data is Lost

Jan 25, 2007Comments

I’ve been reading through my latest copy of Wired magazine and there is a nice little one page piece about the loss of personal data by companies.
Not surprisingly they mention that only 31 states have laws that require companies to let customers know when their information goes missing. What’s sad is that in many [...]

Google Image Search Interface Update

Jan 24, 2007Comments

Speaking of updates that irritate me… have you taken a look at the latest update to the Google Image search interface?
Remember the good old days where searching for an image on Google gave you a list of images with the image dimensions, file size, image type and site where it came from below the image? [...]

Google Personalized Homepage Update

Jan 24, 2007Comments

The Google Personalized Homepage has received an update. Now in your content blocks you get a “+” sign that will drop open and give you a preview of the article/item it links to.
I like the idea, but can say I’m not crazy about it. If I only had a couple blocks on there [...]

Block Certain Elements with Firefox

Jan 23, 2007Comments

Now I see new Firefox extensions all the time and most of the time I’m left scratching my head saying, “Why spend the time on that?”
Not today though! Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper is a great extension in my opinion.
It’s dubbed as a “companion extension for Adblock Plus” but it is so much [...]

$100 Discount on Web Directions North Registration

Jan 23, 2007Comments

Web Directions North (a two day/night event in Vancouver, BC) has a great slate of sessions with some great speakers and other events.
IEBlog announced today that its readers are being offered a $100 discount on registration fees.
On the registration page use the promotion code msp-wdn07 to get the $100 discount. The conference is February [...]

Web Design and Development Job Aggregator

Jan 18, 2007Comments

Jobagg is a fairly new site that makes it easy to find open web design and development jobs. Jobagg is a job board aggregator that brings together for the latest jobs in web development.
Currently they are only indexing the 37signals job board, CSS Beauty’s Monster, and Authentic Jobs. Hopefully they can keep adding [...]