I recently gave some internet safety talks in schools – highlighting some methods that parents can take to support their childrens use of the internet in a safe and responsible way.
CeOp – The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre has today launched some excellent code that will allow you to embed a link to CeOps in your Internet Explorer 8 browser. It is really easy to install and allows your browser to always have a visible link to the CeOp page to support children and adults as they use the internet.
This is important stuff – what are you doing to ensure your family are safe online?
If you are preparing to install Windows 7, or have just finished – then you’ll know what a pain it is to reinstall all your favourite applications straight afterwards. repaving a PC is never that easy.
There is Windows Live Essentials which grabs a few good tools from Redmond (Windows Live Writer being my favourite) – but what about the rest of the useful stuff.
Ninite is an excellent idea – a bulk application installer that simplifies the process of adding some REAL essentials to your PC. Firefox, FileZilla, uTorrent, Skype, paint.NET, Adobe Reader and winRAR are all on my list, and they are ALL included as options in Ninite – alongside many other useful apps.
You just select the application set that you want – and click install – and all of the apps you need are installed quietly and efficiently with the minimum of fuss. Everything is free, and just works with out any intervention.
Genius idea – well executed. Check Ninite out by clicking here.
Ninite – bulk application installer – really useful if you are paving your PC to install Windows 7 this week.
What are your essential applications?
Bing continues to see a number of enhancements – and seems to be garnering attention and gaining small amounts of market share. Bing is becoming the Purple Cow, remarkable in its features.
Today, the Bing team rolled out visual search, which allows searchers to find product information from a scrollable interface (does require SilverLight), then using filters in the navigation, narrowing down your search visually to find the info you need.
Some of the searches are just amazing to play with – I particularly like movies at the cinema and the awesome digital camera search (try that and narrow down the features you need to get to a cool gallery of the right cameras).
It even appears that Bing is a BETTER place to search for iPhone applications than iTunes itself.
I’ve been seeing some virus alerts today when accessing YouTube, each one was quarantined and fixed by my virus software, but I did some searching and it looks like it is quite widespread, watch out for any crazy behaviour and make sure your shields are up.
I know that everyone is struggling for cash, but I reckon that a couple less lattes this week could help you find a few quid for this campaign. Helping girls, to help their families – The Girl Effect.
…there is always the internets – and this hysterical rendering of Bohemian Rhapsody on the Danny Baker radio show – thanks JK for this one.
PS – put your headphones in and listen very carefully!
You can switch the internet off now – this site has won it, and will never, ever be bettered.
Some of my particular favourites:
272 – If the teacher forgets to assign homework, keep quiet.
245 - Look people in the eye when you thank them, especially waiters
165 – On a night out with the boys, never be the first to go home
45 – Drink rail liquor, a good drink rarely needs more than one ingredient. Usually Ice
Damn – I wish I’d thought of this – absolutely lovely.
See the little fella over there? That’s me! Well, it is sort of me, as seen from the Xbox, which has just been updated with something cool called NXE (New Xbox Experience).
I booted up last night and was prompted to update my system, 10 minutes and a reboot later I was presented with a completely new look Xbox, with cool swooshing menus (instead of the hated blades).
The most fun I had was building my avatar – which looks suspiciously like a mii – but obviously has a body…
Do you think it looks like me?
By the way – I’’m ‘here’ on Xbox Live – hook me up if you want to be thrashed at Guitar Hero or Gears of War 2.
Update – if you want to download your own avatar (as above) – you can do it via this link:
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/YOURGAMERTAGHERE/avatar-body.png
Absolutely brilliant and scarily accurate remix of Gordon Brown at the Labour Party Conference – from the brilliant cassetteboy. (via)
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