"Google Chrome is using a client id variable in the file Local State which can be found in the user data folder of the chrome installation which is unique for every Chrome user. Privacy advocates are already warning users that the id can be used to create exact user profiles of a user’s actions while using Google Chrome ( Read more... )

...but MP3 is portable:

http://media-convert.com/

(Note: Many other file formats covered.)

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Edit: Micro$oft discovers war driving...about six years after the rest of us ( Read more... )

Meet Antares, the Siberian tiger cub at Berlin Zoo:

Click to view

Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVvtq9oEjjkRead more... )

...but the largest amount of non-LiveJournal feedback I receive (specifically concerning my LiveJournal entries) continues to focus on what's wrong with LiveJournal security. Usually, in the case of old lags and former comrades, it's the familiar leg-pulling or banter ("You're STILL on LJ? Why, in the name of all that's unholy, are you using that ( Read more... )

Lauren Zima at MSN Entertainment:

"Who you gonna call? Well, probably not Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis. Unfortunately, those classic comedians are a bit old to be busting ghosts with electricity. But rumour has it that the original ghostbusters will be teaming up with a new crop of comedians: Judd Apatow's crew (Seth ( Read more... )

http://www.bbc.co.uk/merlin

(Try that one again in September. It may appeal to Giles-from-Buffy fans in particular...ooh, it's active now! Sort of. O Ye of sod all faith. Tut.)

;o)

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Edit: More student praise for EverNote ( Read more... )

For the easily-hypnotised, and sentimentally-inclined oldschool lovers of LiveJournal userpics that don't just sit there:

http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/17/create-animated-gifs-from-youtube-videos/

Edit: A good companion link ( Read more... )

Adam Sage flirts outrageously with a national stereotype:

"Smokers in France are uniting to beat a ban on lighting up in public by organising open-house parties where they can puff on their Gauloises until the early hours ( Read more... )

Someone mentioned this the other day, and apparently there was even a quarter-page ad in one of the national newspapers, but cheers to D for the confirmatory link ( Read more... )

...so just tell it to shut up.

"Don't be surprised if, some day soon, your Bluetooth headset tells you to calm down. Or informs you that your last caller was lying through his teeth."Voice commands get funkier ( Read more... )