Thursday, March 11, 2010

Update on National Broadband Plan

The FCC National Broadband Plan Faces Long Haul

The FCC is facing resistance and opposition as it readies its National Broadband Plan, and the implementation is likely to take many years to put in place. A controversial part of the FCC's plan involves asking broadcasters to free up unused airwaves on a "voluntary" basis. Parts of the FCC broadband plan have enjoyed widespread support.

Twitter aims to filter out malicious links

Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social-media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks.

HP Slate vs. iPad: Focus on Flash

With the iPad presale beginning in just a few days, and the clock ticking down to the much-anticipated Apple tablet finally hitting the streets, HP launched a renewed campaign for its Slate tablet PC debuted at the 2010 CES by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Each platform has pros and cons, but so far the debate seems to center entirely around support for Adobe Flash.

How To Skip Movie Trailers on Your DVD

Get sick of waiting for your movie to begin? Want to skip the FBI warning? Me too...I just want to go straight to my movie. Here is a quick little video tutorial that shows you how.

Photo Magician does simple, quality batch image resizing for free

One type of program I often forget to load on a fresh Windows install is a good photo resizing tool. Sometimes -- like when I want to create a screenshot tour of an app -- it would make things simpler to just dump a pile of full-size screenshots into a folder and let some little app churn out images resized to the dimensions I need.

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