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Entries from February 2006

Optical Illusion

February 13th, 2006 · 7 Comments

This is a pretty cool illusion. Stare at the center cross. What happens to the pink circles? There are lots more here. I know some of you have seen some of these before, but this pink dot one was new to me.

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Interesting Software

February 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Here are three more free programs that I’ve found useful. KeePass is a program to keep all your passwords. It requires a password to access, so you still have to remember at least one. You could do the same thing with a password protected Word file or something, but this is pretty convenient. If you […]

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The Dangers of IE

February 10th, 2006 · 12 Comments

“Internet Explorer users can be as much as 21 times more likely to end up with a spyware-infected PC than people who go online with Mozilla’s Firefox browser, academic researchers from Microsoft’s backyard said in a recently published paper.” Read more here. I know that I never get spyware anymore, just a few innocuous tracking […]

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