Who wouldn’t want a ‘#Second #Life’?
So what do you do when your first life is not going the way you feel it should? You play Second Life of course! Second Life is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003 and is accessible via the Internet. A free client program called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another, or travel throughout the world, which residents refer to as the grid. Second Life caters to users aged eighteen and over, while its sister site Teen Second Life is for younger users. The service is free but users can pay $9.95 a month for the premium version which includes a $300L (see below for information about what this is) a month and the ability to buy land and a up to $100.00 worth of L’s a month)
You’re not a geek if you have not seen at least one episode of Diggnation, starring Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose. Each week the pair sits on a couch with their laptops and basically reveals the top stories on the popular social bookmarking site Digg.Com. This article is not exactly about Diggnation though, it’s about a funny E*Trade commercial that features two babies (one white one black) each sitting in their own high chairs in front of a mac computer basically “Pretending” to be Albrecht and Rose. It’s a highly hilarious commercial, and you can see it here on FareedWarrad.Com!
Microsoft has lost the browser war along time ago even though it’s Internet Explorer product technically has more market share than any other browser. Microsoft IE has been losing ground to competitors, such as Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome and the open-source Firefox from Mozilla. That is one of the defining factors in why IE users are slow to adopt the new browser release version 8.0 that debuted Tuesday. There’s other reasons, too. When Microsoft introduces a new version of a product, it does so usually when it has finished ‘perfecting’ it’s previous version, and the fact that it’s new version still has ’some bugs’. This was the case when IE7 was released a couple of years ago. So avid MS FanBoys will usually be the first to adopt the new version while the remaining 90% of Microsoft users will wait until they see their friends and family start to use it (which is usually when a few patches have been released). Microsoft is counting on IE 8 to help reverse erosion of its share of the Web browser market.
Anyone that knows me, knows that I never advocate copying (or stealing) other people’s articles and posting them on my own site (unless I want to help promote some one’s article in which then I will state that the article was not written by me), but there are those who do steal articles and re post them as their own. To prevent this from happening, WordPress users can use a plugin that disables right clicking (and sends the reader an alert if they try to right click) as well as disables highlighting. This is a simple to install, setup, and use plugin.