GMail’s “What’s New” page has been changed and now reflects that they will be introducing virus scanning capabilities very soon.

Here is some information you can find on one of their help pages:

How does anti-virus scanning work?

Each time you send and receive attachments, Gmail automatically scans them for viruses.

If a virus is found in an attachment you’ve received, our system will attempt to remove it, or clean the file, so you can still access the information it contains. If the virus can’t be removed from the file, you won’t be able to download it.

If a virus is found in an attachment you’re trying to send, you won’t be able to send the message until you remove the attachment.

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And I thought that it’s only possible with computers…

More data isn’t always a good thing. As has been pointed out plenty of times, efforts for things like data retention often have the opposite of the intended effect (catching criminals) because it hides the good data with all the bad data. Is it any surprise that our brains feel the same way? Clive Thompson is talking about some research that took people by surprise, noting that smarter people tend to be better at ignoring useless data, rather than storing more data. Traditionally, it’s been assumed that the brain is sort of like a big hard drive — and people who can remember more tend to be smarter.

However, this research suggests that it’s not the ability to remember more, but to remember the right things. In some ways this isn’t that surprising. After all, intelligence often seems to come from the ability to do better pattern matching than others — and having the right data, rather than too much data can often help make those patterns clearer. It would be interesting to see what sort of impact this would have on artificial intelligence research.

Many AI projects seem to have worked on the basis of cramming the system with more and more and more data in the hopes that some sort of intelligence would eventually emerge. Perhaps the focus should be more on teaching it how to ignore data.

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This is something I always wanted. I now use Bullents Screen Recorder for the job

Main Features:

• Captures screen actions as video and pictures
• Select any portion of the screen for recording (Full Desktop, A Window, A Region, Multiregions, HandyCam)

• Use WATCHIT Mode for VIDEO STREAM RECORDING in internet This provides an optimized auto-capture
  recording. Automatically pauses recording when the video stream is frozen and starts again automatically due to changes in the video stream.
• Record audio from your microphone, speakers, CD Audio, MIDI etc. depending on your sound card into your movie or add sound into video from a sound file
• Record Subtitles while recording your video
• Use Multi File Recording Function (records to a new file when exceeds a specified file size)
• Get Advise from Screen Recorder for decreasing video file size
• Use Photo Studio to view captured pictures and to create movies of them
• Use MOVIE STUDIO to
  Create movie from picture files
• Add Audio Into Video While Watching It
• Extract Parts from Video
• Grab Pictures from Video
• Extract Sound From Video
• Merge Videos
• Resample Video (Change its speed, compress with another codec)
• Define hotkeys for ‘Record’, ‘Stop’ and ‘Pause’
• Define hotkey for ‘Take Picture’
• Manual Recording Button provides easy manual recording. Records while you keep pressed the manual record button. Pauses when you release it and continues when pressed again.
• Display of video file size during recording
• Capture speed configuration. Wide range of capture speed setting For example from 30 frames per second to 1 frame per 2 hours. This feature may be used to capture a security cam video at a speed of 2 frames per 1 minute for instance.
• Auto configuration of playback speed.
• Size configuration for zoom-in , zoom-out.
• Mouse cursor recording (you may records mouse pointer movements into your video)
• Display date and time on your video
• You may choose different codecs (compressors) to record your video. Change compression options such as quality, key frame rate etc.
• Audio quality settings
• Subtitle text settings
• You may set Screen Recorder to work completely invisible
• Run BSR in tray or at corner. Or fold BSR in order to make it occupy less space on screen to provide you a large area of recording

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A Googlewhack is a query consisting of two words (with no quote marks) entered into Google’s search page that returns a single result. Googlewhacking is the pastime of finding such a result. A person attempting to find Googlewhacks is known as a Googlewhacker.

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Well it’s almost Christmas, so I thought of changing my yahoo smileys to christmas smileys

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Well that’s what I was wondering till I did a Google search..

A Google bomb or Google wash is a certain attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine. Due to the way that Google’s PageRank algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page all use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner.

Spamdexing or search engine spamming is the practice of deliberately and dishonestly manipulating search engines to increase the chance of a website or page being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to influence the category to which the page is assigned in a dishonest manner. Many designers of web pages try to get a good ranking in search engines and design their pages accordingly. Spamdexing refers exclusively to practices that are dishonest and mislead search and indexing programs to give a page a ranking it does not deserve.

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YEmote2 add several intresting features to Yahoo! Messenger, such as advanced Webcam capture, easy smiley selection, advanced message archive viewer, an auto-reply feature and much more…

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• Syndicate the full text of your articles.
  The more content that is available in a site’s feed, the better the user experience, and the more likely people are to subscribe your feed. If you can’t put the full text of your articles in your feed, then in addition to the headline of each article, include as informative a snippet as possible of the article’s text.
• Don’t include more than one ad unit per article.
  Feeds represent an uncluttered, highly targeted medium, and these characteristics should be preserved to maintain and grow an audience. The AdSense for feeds ad format has been designed to be very streamlined to ensure that users are not overwhelmed with advertising.
• Place the ad unit at the end of articles.
  The content of an article is what users are most interested in, and that should be placed first. Then they can read the ad with more context.
• Include terms and conditions on the use of your feeds
  Just as you have rights associated with the original content you create on your website, so do you have rights associated with your feed content. If you have concerns about those rights, specify the exact terms and conditions for the use of your feeds somewhere on your site.

One of my favorite browsers, Mozilla Firefox, will release their next version 1.5 on November 29th

I found this cool software while I was searching for something else. What is it? Well read on…

Yahoo Pal is an add-on program for the popular IM software Yahoo! Messenger. It adds some features and bypasses some limitation imposed by Yahoo! Messenger, and that can make your IM more interesting.

Yahoo! Pal is an invisible program, it will automatically attach to running Yahoo! Messenger and new Yahoo! Messengers you run after Yahoo! Pal, and add menu bar to the Yahoo! Messenger windows. You can also quit it by clicking its menu.

Features:

• Allow multiple accounts on the same computer: By default, only one account is allowed to logon on one machine. If you have more than one Yahoo! IM account, it is definitely a problem. With Yahoo! Pal, you can log on all of your Yahoo! IM accounts if you want.
• Automatically reply when you are away: Although you can specify customized status in Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger won’t do auto reply for you when you are away. With Yahoo! Pal, you can specify a customized message as auto reply message, Yahoo! Pal will automatically send it for you when you enable the auto reply function in Yahoo! Pal. You can specify different auto reply messages for different accounts on the same machine.
• Hotkey to hide Yahoo! Messengers windows: To protect your conversations, you can define a hotkey for special function. Once this hotkey is pressed, all existing Yahoo! Windows including the system bar icons will be hidden automatically. If your friend sends IM to you when you already hide Yahoo!, the new IM window won’t pop up. Press the hotkey again, all Yahoo! Windows and system bar icons will appear.
• Send a random quote to your friend: Yahoo! Pal is able to print a random, hopefully interesting, adage or quote. If you used UNIX fortune before, you will have more idea about this function. Yahoo! Pal stores over 16000 quotes and adages. They cover art, computers, cookie, definitions, drugs, education, ethnic, food, fortunes, humorists, kids, law, linuxcookie, literature, love, magic, medicine, men-women, news, people, pets, platitudes, politics, riddles, science, songs-poems, sports, startrek, wisdom, work and miscellaneous. Most of them are inoffensive, and other are offensive. You can send inoffensive or offensive ones to your friend depending on your relationship with your friend.

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