Category: Internet

Join The Class Action Against AT&T’s Slothly DSL Speeds

Posted by Nexus – 11/03/2010

[via consumerist.com]

A class action has been filed against AT&T DSL for being too slow. Specifically, the suit alleges that AT&T set the maximum rate customers could get at a level that was lower than the advertised rate. The company denies these claims but has opted to settle instead of going to court. You’re eligible to join if…

…you got AT&T DSL after March 31st 1994, and are either a current or former member. You have until July 1st to get on board.

To join and get more info, check out dslspeedsettlement.com.

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How to Disable and Deactivate Spam Filter Protection in Gmail or Google Mail

Posted by Nexus – 09/03/2010

[via mydigitallife.info]

Gmail or Google Mail as known in UK and Germany comes with a very good spam filter which scans all incoming emails and move the mail messages that are identified as spam to Spam folder (label as Spam). All spam-tagged email messages in the Spam folder are then automatically deleted, pruned and purged from the mailbox after 30 days.

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Eternal Code is now mobile-internet compatible!

Posted by Nexus – 09/03/2010

How this site should look in a mobile browser (Opera Mini is demonstrated here).

Thanks to Crowd Favorite and Carrington Mobile, Eternal Code is now mobile-device compatible.

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A 3-Step Guide for Beginners on Buzz

Posted by Nexus – 07/03/2010

[via openforum.com]

A lot of the buzz about Buzz has died down, but this conversation service from Google is just beginning to experience a surge of traffic. If it’s like many social media tools, it will take a while for users to hop on board—after early adopters charge forward first. When I heard that my colleague, tech guru Leo Laporte loves Buzz, I knew that I had to get up-to-speed on how it works. Here is what I’ve learned that will help beginners get Buzz-ing in no time.

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7 Insanely Useful Ways to Search Twitter for Marketing

Posted by Nexus – 07/03/2010

[via openforum.com]

As a marketing tool Twitter gets much more interesting and useful when you can filter out 99% of the junk that doesn’t apply to your objectives and focus on the stuff that matters.

The basic search.twitter.com functionality is fine for searching things that are being said about your search terms. The advanced search function offers more ways to slice and dice the stream, but still leaves some room for improvement as it only searches what’s being said and where. From a marketing standpoint who is saying it might be more useful.

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Human-flesh search engines in China: China’s Cyberposse

Posted by Nexus – 07/03/2010

[via nytimes.com]

The short video made its way around China’s Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard-print blouse, knee-length black skirt, stockings and silver stilettos standing next to a riverbank. She smiles, holding a small brown and white kitten in her hands. She gently places the cat on the tiled pavement and proceeds to stomp it to death with the sharp point of her high heel.

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Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6

Posted by Nexus – 02/03/2010

[via gizmodo.com]

It’s the bane of Web designers everywhere, and it makes most modern Websites look broken and horrible. So why are 20% of web surfers still using it?

Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser-a decade-old dinosaur engineered to navigate the Web as it existed in the year 2000. Why would this be cause for celebration? Because IE6 is barely capable of navigating the modern Web and a total nightmare to build sites, services and applications for.

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Street View goes user-generated

Posted by Nexus – 02/03/2010

[via bit-tech.net]

Google has launched its first user-generated version of Street View, which maps geolocated images in a 3D space and allows for virtual walk-throughs with impressive imagery.

As reported over on GigaOM,the new layer allows users to upload two-dimensional photographs and place them within a three-dimensional space – creating a 3D panorama of the area with far higher resolution and quality than that available from the standard Street View service.

The idea isn’t new: back in 2006 Microsoft unveiled its Silverlight-based 2D-to-3D photo manipulation system Photosynth, which works in much the same way: taking images uploaded by individuals and placing them within a collaborative space to create a fully immersive – if slightly herky-jerky – 3D panorama.

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Digital Economy Bill signals end of free WiFi

Posted by Nexus – 01/03/2010

[via bit-tech.net]

The administrative overhead in offering customers free Internet access could become to much to bear if the Digital Economy Bill goes forward.

The Digital Economy Bill – which aims to curtail file sharing by introduction stronger sanctions against those found trading in copyright material, up to and including disconnection from the Internet – could have an unfortunate side effect: the death of the free, open wireless access point.

Lillian Edwards, professor of Internet law at Sheffield University, is quoted by ZDNet as stating that the scenarios detailed in an explanatory document produced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills would “outlaw open WiFi for small businesses.”

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Top 10 Free Ways To Discover New Music Online

Posted by Nexus – 28/02/2010

[via makeuseof.com]

Bored with your music and want to discover some new bands or singers? There are two main ways you can do that online. You can use services which create music maps, allowing you to explore artists similar in genre to the artists you already listen to. Or you can use music blogs and websites that showcase independent or up-and-coming artists, whether the music is being reviewed, or posted by the musicians themselves.

Some of these websites have a community built around them, which gives fans the opportunity to interact directly with these new talents.

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