The Conficker worm has infected millions of Windows computers—and one variant is set to be unleashed on April 1st, 2009. Here’s what you need to know to keep yourself safe.
Sometimes it can be tough to find space for your home office, but a little flexibility goes a long way. Today’s featured workspace is tucked, of all places, under a flight of stairs.
Mac OS X only: Feel like you waste too much time on Facebook, Twitter, or some other internet time sink? Free application SelfControl is serious about blocking those distractions when you need to focus.
Firefox only: Gmail’s powerful filters and labels make it great for organizing, but when you have multiple labels assigned to a message the subject barely fits on the screen—unless you auto-hide them with a script.
It’s April Fools’ Day, which means we should all brace ourselves for the inevitable, widespread prankage. If you haven’t prepared your own pranks, we’ve already got ten ready-to-go geek pranks for your perusal.
Toward the end of last year, a hosting provider involved in sending 75% of spam emails was shut down—dropping spam levels by a whopping two-thirds. Unfortunately, according to the New York Times, spam has made a full recovery, back to 94% of all sent email. Also, like any good virus, spam has evolved to more advanced and resilient technologies as a result—so it looks like bad news all around. Photo by janetgalore. [NYT]
Most of the multi-touch gestures available to iPhone and Apple laptop owners don’t require anything special, hardware-wise—except a patent licence from Apple. Linux users, however, can get some of that multi-finger goodness in three quick steps.
Need to cram some brain biology into your brain? Master 10 quick Japanese numbers? smart.fm offers a list-based learning system for anything its users want to learn and share their lessons for.
You can check the number of words in just about any word processing program, but what about the distribution of those words?
If you can work from pretty much anywhere (anywhere there’s Wi-Fi, at least) and have considered a local coworking spot, WebWorkerDaily has an informative and sometimes eye-opening compendium of writing on the semi-new-fangled concept.
