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June 12th, 2009blog, journalism, social media, social movements, tips, user experience, utilities, visualization, web applications, web design, web things to do, webdev
Start with a number followed by a nifty subject area full of tips.
Here are some useful examples:
20 Fantastic Resources For User Experience Know How:
http://www.inspiredm.com/2009/05/15/ux-madness-20-fantastic-resources-for-user-experience-know-how/50 iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers
http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/iphone-roundups/50-iphone-apps-for-web-designers-developers/20 Tools to Make the life of a Web Developer Easier
http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/20-tools-to-make-the-life-of-a-web-developer-easier/25 Most Useful Blogs for web design and development
http://www.webappers.com/2009/04/06/25-most-useful-blogs-for-web-design-development/50 Great Examples of Data Visualizations
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/50-great-examples-of-data-visualization/5 impressive Mashups of Twitter and Flickr
http://mashable.com/2009/05/11/twitter-flickr-mashups/30 days to become a freelancer
http://www.skelliewag.org/30-days-to-become-a-freelancer-961.htmTrend spotting a fashion that is beginning to get irritating.
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April 15th, 2007utilities
In another move closer to an open-source society… I unshackled from the grip of Norton Anti-virus. (Which was only ever a knee jerk reaction to virus mania on my machine over a year ago – boy that was fun!!!)
After a bit of research I chose to go with Avira AntiVir which has been great.
Daily scans with the ever cute Luke Filewalker has been making me happy for a few weeks now.Many online discussions say that uninstalling Nortons has also been the biggest performance lifter on their computer. I can also add that despite having only just run a Norton scan on my machine and a Spy Bot Destroyer – Avira AntiVir still picked up stacks of Proxy Agents, a couple of Trogens and plenty of Spy bots. Now it hums away updating every night and scanning every lunch time.
I’m a convert.
One great resource that I found while doing my research was this “independent” anti virus comparison lab – I believe they are Australian:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/
And here is their comparative report from Feb 2007
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_02.phpAvira AntiVir comes up well in the report as does AVG and AVAST … as does Norton – but it is the only one you have to pay for.
Links to some online scanners:
Http://www.bitdefender.co.uk/
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
http://www.pandasoftware.com/
http://onlinescan.avast.com/









