Web design galleries offer designers and developers creative inspiration on their own designs. In this article you’ll find the 16 best and most popular web design galleries ranked in order by the number of votes they garnered on a poll that was published earlier this month.
Google is set to make changes to its search ranking algorithm to combat the spate of links leading to malicious web pages appearing at the top of Google’s search results, according to an inside source.
HDTVs are in demand these days People love the clear pictures and better resolution images, and this is the reason they prefer HDTVs over conventional boxes. The quality a High Definition Television provides is unmatched, and usual TVs cannot equate them at all.
schnucki brings word of new research which claims roughly one in twelve American children between the ages of eight and 18 are “pathologically addicted” to video games. The study, conducted by Douglas Gentile, director of the National Institute on Media and the Family at Iowa State University, says that “pathological status was a significant predictor of poorer school performance even after controlling for sex, age, and weekly amount of video-game play.” However, Professor Cheryl Olson, who has conducted her own research into video game use, questioned Gentile’s methodology, saying, “The author is repurposing questions used to assess problem gambling in adults; however, lying to your spouse about blowing the rent money on gambling is a very different matter from fibbing to your mom about whether you played video games instead of starting your homework.”
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RCMP 'sorry' for inaccurate remarks on Dziekanski incident
Globe and Mail VANCOUVER – The RCMP has admitted that it provided wrong information to the public about the taser incident involving Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski in the first days after his death at Vancouver International Airport. New Taser policy more restrictive, RCMP head says CBC.ca Dziekanski inquiry: RCMP spokesman simply repeated what told to say Canada.com Winnipeg Sun – The Province – Times Colonist – Vancouver Sun all 179 news articles |
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Storms dampen hopes of record turnout in South Africa elections
guardian.co.uk The ANC president, Jacob Zuma, urged 18-year-olds to 'celebrate their right to vote'. Photograph: STR/Reuters Voting has got under way in South Africa's fourth democratic elections since the end of apartheid, but a sudden turn of bad weather is … Video: S Africa opposition aims to gain on ruling ANC – 22 Apr 09 Al Jazeera Live: South African general election BBC News New York Times – CNN International – Washington Post – The Associated Press all 1,867 news articles |
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Sri Lankan war in endgame, 81000 escape rebel zone
Reuters By C. Bryson Hull and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) – Thousands more civilians surged out of Sri Lanka's war zone on Wednesday, while soldiers and Tamil Tiger rebels fought the apparent endgame of Asia's longest-running war despite calls to protect … Video: Raw Video: Sri Lankan Civilians Escape Civil War The Associated Press Sri Lanka army: 35 rebels killed as civilians flee The Associated Press Voice of America – ABC Online – Times of India – The Press Association all 3,099 news articles |
Scientists often get a hard time from technophobes – not least because some of their research stems from the university of the bleedin’ obvious. But over at MIT there’s plenty of real work being done – resulting in technologies, concepts and techniques that really could change the way you live work and play.
Today the Malaysian government ordered prominent webhosting provider Shinjiru to close down BitTorrent site LeechersLair.com. The order came from the Content, Consumer and Network Security Division of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission.
As user-friendly but insecure applications continue to become available hackers have an ever growing number of security holes to choose from. They’re also getting smarter about building resilient architectures. Here are four reasons the botnet fight is getting harder, and what to do about it:
