Friday, May 15, 2009

Friday’s News and Tips to Make Your Computing Life Better

Google networking error caused outage

As reported yesterday, widespread outages involving several Google services--including search, Google Docs, and Gmail--were caused by an upgrade gone awry inside of Google, according to engineers.

Muscle power saves the day for Hubble camera

In a make-or-break attempt to free a stuck bolt holding an old camera in place on the Hubble Space Telescope, spacewalker Andrew Feustel, anchored to the end of the shuttle Atlantis' robot arm, used old-fashioned elbow grease to save the day, releasing the bolt and clearing the way for installation of a powerful new camera.

Five Free Security Hacks

Let's talk about security hacks—simple yet clever ways to protect yourself in the physical and cyber worlds that cost little or nothing.

13 Useful And Free Websites To Make Your Lives Easier

Here is another list of 13 useful and free Websites to make your lives easier when you want to process your daily work. They are too much simple in terms of their usage because many of these do not need to register with them to use the service.

EjectUSB 1.4 (Windows) Free

Ever tried to dismount a portable drive and Windows would not let you? This may help. EjectUSB was designed to be a simple utility to close all programs running from a specified drive or folder and then attempt ejection if a drive was specified.

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