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Newspapers discover internet when 12 year old raped
Ottawa citizen actually posted the link to another newspaper in story about rape in Calgary
An ambulance attendant loads a patient at a playing field adjacent to Clarence Sansom Junior High, on 24th Avenue N.E. in the community of Pineridge. A girl as young as 12 was attacked, and possibly raped, in the northeast schoolyard just before the supper hour Monday as a group of youths looked on and took photos. Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Police+seize+cellphones+interview+drunk+teens+after+schoolyard+assault/3487713/story.html#ixzz0yritlkqi Photograph by: Courtesy, Global TV
It was a pretty ghastly story in the Ottawa Citizen. Some teenage boys in Calgary allegedly raped a 12 year old girl in the school yard while other children looked on and took photographs with their cellphones.
Police have detained one boy who appeared to be the perpetrator and seized cell phones from others. They may contain videos or pictures which could be evidence.
Alcohol was involved. A mother in a nearby home witnessed the whole incident unsure what was happening and then horrified when she realized the young girl was being sexually attacked.
The Ottawa Citizen was covering the story from the Calgary Herald. In an unprecedented move for a newspaper, the Citizen printed the link back to other paper.
Picture caption is exactly as shown in the Ottawa Citizen
Android on the rise in mobile web use
Blackberry and Apple iOS yield market share to Google Android devices
Apple's share of internet traffic is dropping, Android now 1/4 of use
This has nothing to do with how many smartphones or tablets are sold but everything to do with what people are using to get on the mobile internet.
Apple used to own this market with 68% of user traffic. They are down to 56%
Android devices are up from 9% to 25% from May 2009 and obviously on the rise.
Blackberry is down from 12% to 9%.
There are plenty of statistical reports on this market. They all show a trend upwards for Android.
There are more Android devices on the market these days and with Android you can see more sites than with Apple iOS.
For instance, our tracking of Hurricane / Tropical Storm Earl from StormPulse could not be seen on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The site uses Flash animation.
That is only one example of how Apple frustrates its customers every day. Source Quantcast, suggested by Engadget.
You may not own digital downloads
Amazon.com locked woman out of Kindle purchases for a month
Kindle (photo: Amazon.com)
E-books are fun to use away from home but you don’t own the books, as a woman recently found out.
In a story reported on The Consumerist, the woman purchased a book, was locked out and then told by Amazon.com to merely purchase it again. She did but was still locked out, despite numerous emails.
“I am having major amazon issues. A month ago I bought a kindle and was really excited to use it on vacation. I bought a few books and when I was done, I bought another. Then they froze my account, so I called in and logged a case.
Within 48 hours I got a call back, saying it was an error on their side and they’d unfreeze it for me, but I’d just need to re-order the book. I thought no problem, thanks for the help. So I bought the book a second time and it automatically freezes me out again. I call in and log another case, but get no phone call back as promised from an account specialist.”
Chrome 6 browser speedy and stable
Google celebrates the 2nd anniversary of its foray into the browser war with Release 6 of Chrome and increased market share
Google Chrome browser
At the relatively young age of two years old, Google can be plenty proud of it’s entrant in the Internet browser wars with Chrome.
It is shipping release 6 and steadily gaining market share on all competition.
Chrome 6 is slightly faster than Firefox and IE and benefits from a simple interface.
The address bar and search bar are the same. Type in what you are looking for and it will suggest sites or allow you to use the Google Search page. That took a few minutes to get used to. I kept looking for a search bar.
Chrome is quicker to start than either Internet Explorer or Firefox. When I tried it last year, quicker meant fewer features. Now it’s just faster.
Organizing work is intuitive. Within a few minutes of installing Chrome 6 yesterday, I had imported bookmarks, set up the bookmark bar and organized my workspace. Chrome didn’t import all my passwords so there is a bit of work to enter them as I go to along. Read the rest of this entry »
New phishing attacks with out-of-office and change-my-email messages
Clever new attacks simulate emails with moderate level of important information but no alarming key phrases
Phishing illustrations PC1 News
People started getting phony emails this week that attempt to establish contact through benign messages. The older scams promise millions of dollars in lost money, sex, dates, or jobs.
This new round of phishing is different: the messages are low key and don’t contain anything that would raise alarm bells. Replying to get more detail can open up your system to phishing or trojan attacks.
Here are a few received in in the past 4 hours. None of them are from people I know but they do raise one’s curiosity which is the point: to hook you innocently into replying.
Email Change
Steve Rich has changed his email address due to excessive spam after having the same address for 15 years. Please, go to the website and contact the office via the contact directory on the top header, , (you will get general email address where you can request Steve’s new email) or, call the office at 973-458-1188 or Steve’s cell phone to get his new email address.
More bafflegab from the Minister who told the truth about PNP
Innovation and Advanced Learning Minister Allan Campbell says he has covered the Prince Edward Island with slow speed networking
PEI hi-speed from Aliant is 1/10th Eastlink service
With great fanfare, Innovation Minister Allan Campbell declares PEI is ready to join the broadband world of hi-speed internet.
P.E.I. entirely covered by broadband network headlines the Charlottetown Guardian without a clue what they are talking about. Or perhaps they want to be a public relations extension of the government.
The truth is that outside of the Charlottetown and Summerside, Aliant customers are getting slow speed internet. Read the rest of this entry »
Put yourself in Arcade Fire rock video
Arcade Fire’s video The Wilderness Downtown uses HTML 5 to include your home in the action
The Wilderness Downtown
Arcade Fire have produced an innovative rock video for their song The Wilderness Downtown that puts your home and your street right into the video. It is awesome.
Because it uses HTML 5, it works best in Google Chrome which you can download for free. It doesn’t hurt your computer to have Chrome and IE and Firefox so no harm in trying.
The instructions tell you to put the home where you were brought up. May not work if it has become a condo development like my old address. Any address seems to work.
The video also works in Firefox 4.00 beta 1 which has HTML 5 built in.
The video is pretty imaginative and a little far out but it shows where we are headed with the next round of browsers.
They suggest closing all other programs since the processing is intensive. Arcade Fire – The Wilderness Downtown suggested by TechDirt.
Zoom R16 digital 8 track recorder review
An out-of-box experience says our audio tech for field recording
Zoom R16 digital 8-track recorder
The Zoom R16 digital recorder is one of the best recording gizmos to hit the market for remote recording of audio. It records 8 simultaneous tracks of 24-bit video using AA batteries.
There doesn’t seem to be a competitor yet near the $480 (Canadian) or $400 (US) street price from sellers like Source: Amazon.com
We’ve been recording music for five years. The annoying part of the process is how much time a musician has to waste on learning complicated technology when they should be working at the music.
The Zoom R16 is the best product we’ve seen for removing the technology from the process of recording music. It’s simple to set-up, operate and gets very good results. Read the rest of this entry »
Email is getting easier with Gmail Priority Inbox
Semi-automatic prioritizing of email may clear out the clutter
The video says it better. The free service started being rolled out on Tuesday and will take a week to hit all Gmail accounts in North America. For more information, click.
Considering Gmail is free and getting easier to use, the heat is on Microsoft to make Outlook more useful or watch their customers switch in droves. Some companies have already switched from Microsoft Office to Google Docs. The biggest complaint with Google has been the mail client. They are working on it.
Google voice makes North American phone calls free
Google relentlessly driving the cost of technology downward with free or cheap long distance on your computer that is easy to use
If you have a Gmail account, you can upgrade it today to place free long-distance calls from your computer with Google Voice.
Over 1 million free calls were made today already on Google Voice.
I called my son in Bracebridge, Ontario and found him shopping for groceries. Free. He may have had cell phone charges.
“I’ll call you back from my land line,” he said. I placed other calls, talked to people and left voice mails. All free. Read the rest of this entry »
Wolfgang’s Vault releases Bob Dylan and The Band Tour
Historic 1974 reunion tour is released online along with thousands of rare rock, folk and jazz concerts
Bob Dylan and The Band in historic reunion tour 1974 (photo Jim Summaria creative commons)
Wolfgang’s Vault has released four concerts from the 1974 tour of Bob Dylan and The Band that are free to listen to on the web or on an iPhone with their WVIP membership.
In 1974 Bob Dylan, the voice of the sixties generation, had been laying low in Woodstock New York since 1967. His albums after the motorcycle accident had been different, not the “wild mercury” sound of Highway 61 and Bringing It All Back Home.
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Twitter and Housekeeping
Twitter added a new service that allows you to add a non-third party tweet button to your website.
The idea is to have a quick and efficient way for readers to tweet stories without going through Tweetme. For the code see Twitter API
NJN Network is self-hosted which created some wrinkles. We went with a free plugin called Tweet Button. The new button is set to zero so Tweet away and get those counts up!
Maintenance
We are in the process of fixing hundreds of broken links so bear with us. Over time, sites we link to disappear, re-organize or delete pages. Those links are broken and we are fixing them one by one. Don’t you just hate housework? Me too but it will get done.
