Digital Footprints

WebMii: http://webmii.com
Pipl: http://pipl.com
Whoozy: http://whoozy.com

Digital Footprints show what kind of mark you have left on the internet. Using these online sites, you can find out what information about you is on the net. These programs search the web for matches to your name in social networks, blogs, images, audio, video, and even through old archives and postings.

Apple's New Product

Today, Apple will be unveiling its new product that has much buzz around it. Many people have speculated that the new device will be a a portable touch screen "tablet" computer. This gives the impression that it will most likely run alot like an iPod. Although nothing, not even the name of the device, has been confirmed, many names have been suggested from the public. Some of these names include "iTablet", "iBook", "iSlate", and "iPad". Although not much is known about the operating system that will be used, it obviously will not just be a MacBook revision. Apple's CFO, Peter Oppenheimer, says it “contains technologies that our competition will not be able to match” and “software is the key ingredient”. With this quote, and after seeing how the iPhone and iTouch have revolutionized the world of technology, Apple's new product is sure to turn heads.

Predicted price: $500-$2000.

Haiti Natural Disaster

Yesterday, Haiti, the third largest country in the Caribbean, was hit by a massive earthquake. The city most affected by the disaster was Haiti's capital of Port Au Prince.

The Earthquake measured 7.3 on the Richter Scale, and has caused the deaths of an unknown amount as the Haitian Diplomat has said that it is too soon to estimate, however, there are numbers in the thousands reported missing after the disaster. Canada is sending a reconnaissance team to Haiti to assess the needs from the major earthquake along with 5 million dollars.

Possible Virus Found in Student Blog?

Recently, a student blog has triggered a malicious content warning on Sophos anti-virus. Interstingly, this virus is one of many multi-OS viruses. The codename of this particular virus is "Mal/FunDF-a". Whether this warning was valid or not has not yet been decided as it was only found by the Sophos database, so this may have been a false positive, or a false alarm. Sophos anit-virus is a free security software capable of detecting and stopping threats against your computer.

Twitter

Twitter has been used by many for various reasons, some for gossip, others for business. While there is no set use for a site such as Twitter, there shoud be some unspoken guidelines such as to keep other's private matters out of the eyes of others. One person using Twitter strictly for networking from a business and professional stand point is Peter Vogel. Visit his page at http://twitter.com/petervogel

New Web 2.0 Programs

New free online flash based programs

Sumo Paint
free online art program with unique tools
http://www.sumopaint.com/home

Inudge
free online music and beat pad program
http://inudge.net/

Both programs are great for killing time and are very interactive.

More free online programs available at
http://ict11-12.wikispaces.com

Microsoft Prgramming Languages

Top 10 languages used at Microsoft:

-C++
-C#
-Visual Basic
-IronPython
-IronRuby
-Javascript
-F#
-PHP
-"M"
-Axum

found on eWeek.com:
http://bit.ly/5tMHok