Archive for May, 2007

Online Computer Sales – The Fall

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Although until now the internet seemed to be a good resource for buying electronics hardware and software, a recent study shows that last year they were surpassed by other kinds of merchandise: clothes and accessories. An article on ContraCostaTimes.com shows how online computer sales have dropped down getting for the first time on the second [...]

Bye Bye Yahoo Photos

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Yahoo Photos will be closed down soon in favor of the more social Flickr, a service acquired by Yahoo in 2005. This will be announced tomorrow and the actual closure will be some time in the next few months. Yahoo Photos users that will wish to transfer the photos to Flickr will have the opportunity [...]

How to really erase a HDD

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

ZDnet Blogs has a interesting article on hard drive information erasing that will get past even *recovery* applications. Hint: Recycle Bin won’t do it for you. Unless you work for the government, in a pretty high position, i don’t think you should be afraid if you haven’t been doing this until now.