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R.I.P Geocities – We’ll always remember the animated gifs
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 | Business, News, Yahoo | No Comments
It has just been reported that Yahoo has finally shut down age-old free web hosting service Geocities for good this time. Acquired by Yahoo! in 1999 for a whopping $2.87 billion, it was a service that many used to get their first website. Ohh how I will always remember those animated flame border .gifs and the flashing text featured all over the page…and who could forget the scrolling news going across the top of the screen…it was the coolest.
You were a legend, you will be missed.
(cue moment of silence)
YouTube EDU and Twitter Added To YouTube.com
Friday, March 27th, 2009 | News, Twitter, Video, WebApps | No Comments
Youtube.com has just recently released a new section of their site devoted to videos from educational sources. They’ve named it YouTube EDU and you can find it by following the link. Pretty much if you’ve ever wanted to find a lecture or speech given in any sort of collegiate atmosphere, this would be the place to go.
In addition to adding YouTubeEDU, they’ve also added a new feature throughout the video sharing site, a “share to Twitter,” link allowing you to ‘tweet’ any video with just one click. I guess for those of you who share videos on twitter frequently, this will save you from having to do your normal copy + paste.
Happy New Years – Google Updated Their Toolbar PageRank
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | google, News, Site Information, Software Update | No Comments
I know that I’m a few hours early for most of you but I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Years! Apparently Google wanted to get in on the celebration as they’ve just recently (sometime in the past 24 hours) updated the Google Toolbar PageRank. Don’t get too excited now kids, this isn’t that big of a news announcement….the Toolbar PageRank is considered by most to be outdated pretty much the moment that it updates. Bummed out? You shouldn’t be, it’s only one of hundreds of factors that Google takes into account in their ranking algorithm.
The entire crew over here at AddTo10.com would like to wish you and your loved ones a safe and happy NYE….. Happy New Year!
The Addicted To 1s and 0s team will be on vacation/haitus until January 10th but we hope you’ll come and visit us once we get back from a much needed vacation….cheers!
Latest IE Exploit Has Microsoft Telling Users To Use Firefox
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 | Hack, IE8, Microsoft, News, Unusual | No Comments
Looks like the IE exploit that was released a few days ago is a lot more serious than anyone thought. How serious you might be asking? Well, it’s serious enough to get Microsoft flooding media outlets advising users to switch to ‘an alternative browser.’ That’s pretty intense!
According to slashdot,
The flaw, which affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, is manifested via malware and has infected over 6000 sites thus far. Microsoft states: ‘The vulnerability exists as an invalid pointer reference in the data-binding function of Internet Explorer. When data binding is enabled (which is the default state), it is possible under certain conditions for an object to be released without updating the array length, leaving the potential to access the deleted object’s memory space. This can cause Internet Explorer to exit unexpectedly, in a state that is exploitable.’”
Damage control!
Send Free SMS Messages Through Gmail
Thursday, December 11th, 2008 | Beta, google, News, SMS, Software Update | 1 Comment
Here’s a new (err..somewhat new) feature for Gmail that has just been released via Google Labs, Free SMS messaging to any phone in the United States through it’s integrated chat feature.
To send a SMS message to one of your friends (or enemies, whichever you feel like reaching out to), just enter a phone number in the search box at the top of the chat window found in the bottom left hand corner of your Gmail interface and select “Send SMS.” Once you’ve entered in a phone number for a contact name, it is automatically saved, meaning you’ll only have to update phone numbers once.
Currently it’s only being tested on US-based cell phone carriers, but hopefully this will be expanded as the ‘kinks’ are worked out of the system.
They’re not the first online chat service to offer this type of free messaging, but hey, one more feature for those of us who use Gmail/Gchat regularly is always an added bonus!
Once you’ve added the SMS number, chats through the service appear in the same interface anyone familiar with the current Gmail chat service will recognize:
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