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- Electronic Evidence: Text Messaging http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/aug04/16aug04.html#text
(11 Aug) By now, many understand that what they say in email can come back to haunt them. It's usually stored somewhere...
- Malware Sneaks Past Ad-Aware http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/aug04/16aug04.html#ad
(13 Aug) Ad-Aware released new anti-spyware software last week and then patched it twice. If you downloaded Ad-Aware SE Plus...
- ALA Takes Copyright to School http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/aug04/16aug04.html#ala
(13 Aug) The American Library Association (ALA) plans to counter what software companies are teaching school kids...
- Online Anonymity: The Up Side http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/aug04/16aug04.html#anon
(16 Aug) It's hard to hide online. Common tactics, such as registering with a false or obscure identity and refusing cookies...
- Symbian Cell Phones Get Virus http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/aug04/16aug04.html#cell
(13 Aug) A pirated version of the game Mosquitos--dubbed Mosquitos v2.0--is infected with a trojan that might begin...
- When Spyware Goes Phishing http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/aug04/16aug04.html#spy
(14 Aug) If you are wondering how to protect yourself against spyware--or if you think the anti-spyware protection...
- Feedster Adds Advertising RSS http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/aug04/16aug04.html#rss
(16 Aug) Feedster will begin adding sponsored links from Kanoodle to its RSS feeds....
- Resources: Medicine, Health Law http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/aug04/16aug04.html#new
We added two new resources to the Legal Research and Search Engine guides. They are Genetic Home Reference (National Library of Medicine) and the Genome Policy and Legislation Database.
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en-us tara@researchbuzz.com 2004-08-16T08:21:18-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 - Attack of the Marcus Zillman White Paper http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001932.shtml
Marcus Zillman is offering a new research white paper called "Bots, Blogs, and News Aggregators". It's free and available at http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/BotsBlogs.pdf (1.5 MB PDF). It's a 20-page pointer to 'bots,... 1932@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Internet-Weblogs 2004-08-16T08:21:18-05:00
- Web Site Lists British Births, Deaths, Marriages -- But You'll Pay http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001931.shtml
If you're looking for information on British war dead and you don't mind filling out a somewhat snarky registration and paying some moolah, you might be interested in the Web... 1931@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Countries-United Kingdom 2004-08-16T08:06:03-05:00
- A Roundup of Olympics Resources http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001930.shtml
Between the tornado watches and the flood warnings and the rain that just wouldn't stop over the weekend, I did manage to watch a bit of the Olympics. As you... 1930@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Entertainment-Sports 2004-08-16T08:03:59-05:00
- Google Mindmap http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001929.shtml
This is cute! I like this. It makes my brain hurt. In a good way. http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2004_08_11_index.html#109222064061401876... 1929@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-Google 2004-08-16T07:53:43-05:00
- Yahoo Has a Special Edition for Google's IPO http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001928.shtml
Okay, sure, why not. Keep up with Google's IPO at Yahoo: http://biz.yahoo.com/special/googleipo2.html .... 1928@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-Google 2004-08-14T18:52:45-05:00
- The Harry Potter News Aggregator http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001927.shtml
Has anyone else had the problem that they read the title "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" as "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Uzbekistan" ? Perhaps it's just... 1927@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Humanities-Literature 2004-08-13T08:11:04-05:00
- A Catalog of Video Movie Title Screens http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001926.shtml
I love the Internet. Where else are you going to get a catalog of the title screens of over 2800 movies? It's available at http://www.shillpages.com/movies/ . The listings here are... 1926@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Entertainment-Movies 2004-08-13T08:02:30-05:00
- It's Funny Where the 3GB E-Mail Accounts are Popping Up http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001925.shtml
The latest one I've seen is at a portal for motorcycle enthusiasts. "HellaciousRiders.com an iTrade Group, Inc. Company is giving away unlimited 3 Gigabyte HRiders.com email accounts to its members....... 1925@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Internet-Tools 2004-08-13T06:46:40-05:00
- PRONOM The Web-Based File Format Registry http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001924.shtml
What program goes with that file format anyway? If you've computers for any length of time you know that there are literally hundreds of file formats out there, and they're... 1924@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Computing-Software 2004-08-12T07:29:29-05:00
- Get Help In Texas http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001923.shtml
211 Texas is both a phone number and a Web site to point people toward community resources in Texas. There's both a phone number (211, natch) and a Web site... 1923@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ US-Texas 2004-08-12T07:21:08-05:00
- Historical Exchange Rates http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001922.shtml
Eh.net has a form where you can get historical exchange rates between the US dollar and several different currencies over a period of years, including Ireland (1951-1999), the UK (1791-2000),... 1922@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Science-Economics 2004-08-11T14:09:26-05:00
- The Theodore Roosevelt Encyclopedia http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001921.shtml
Actually they call it the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia, but let's not quibble. What it is, is a CD-ROM that was published to the Web. It's presented in frames at http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/TR%20Web%20Book/Index.html... 1921@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Culture-People-Archives 2004-08-11T09:19:47-05:00
- New Natural Language Search Engine: Kozoru http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001920.shtml
Put Kozoru on your radar, they just got three million dollars in financing. Nothing going on with their Web site at the moment, but a couple things are interesting about... 1920@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Searching-Natural Language 2004-08-11T09:04:45-05:00
- Nature Publishing Group Adds Bunch of RSS Feeds http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001919.shtml
Nature Publishing Group has added a bunch of RSS feeds. Some of them sound like nature journals, like "Nature Biotechnology" and "Nature Structural & Molecular Biology," but the British Dental... 1919@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Internet-Technology-RSS 2004-08-10T19:18:40-05:00
- Baseball Cards at the Library of Congress http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001918.shtml
Yup, the LOC has a lighter side. And they're proving it in this collection of 2100 baseball cards. Early baseball cards. And when I say early I mean 1887 to... 1918@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Entertainment-Sports-Baseball 2004-08-10T07:22:52-05:00
