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AVG 8.0 Freeware released, with protection from spyware
Sunday, April 27th, 2008A few months ago, Grisoft updated its AVG anti-virus suite to version 8 and included linkscanning, anti-spyware, and anti-rootkit software to boot. Now the popular freeware equivalent of Grisoft’s anti-virus application is getting some of the same features.
AVG Free 8 is out, and not only does it protect your system from viruses, but you [...]
Is your ISP is messing with your BitTorrents ?
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008We have seen claims that almost 70% of ALL Internet traffic is P2P (but no one can tell what the ratio of legal vs. illegal content is). Since then, many ISP’s have taken it upon themselves to throttle down BT related traffic, despite the fact that no one knows whether you’re downloading a Linux Distribution [...]
Share on FriendFeed Tweet ThisOld Media has One advantage over New
Friday, March 21st, 2008Sports Illustrated faces daily, even hourly, competition with ESPN, Yahoo Sports and others, but it has something its main rivals do not: a 53-year trove of articles and photos, most of it from an era when the magazine dominated the field of long-form sports writing and color sports photography.
Sports Illustrated has introduced the Vault, a [...]
Baseball Pitches Illustrated
Friday, December 14th, 2007Check out Baseball Pitches Illustrated, a beautifully-rendered set of infographics describing the speed and trajectory of a whole list of common pitches.
The site has picked twelve of the more common pitches:
Fastballs: Four-seam, Two-seam, Cutter, Splitter, and Forkball
Breaking Balls: Curveball, Slider, Slurve, and Screwball
Changeups: Changeup, Palmball, Circle Changeup
Things to watch for that will help you [...]
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