FEBRUARY, 2010
Daniel Ionescu, PCWorld
Feb 12, 2010 5:53 am
 Google introduced Maps Labs Friday, a cool new set of innovative add-ons to its popular map service that offers a multitude of new ways to explore places near and far. Google Maps Labs is an incubator to test features for the Google Maps service, in the same spirit as Gmail Labs. When you go to Google Maps, click on the green flask icon at the top, where eight new test features await.
Among the experimental features in Google Maps Labs, you will find "Drag'n'Zoom," which will let you draw a box on the map to immediately zoom into that place and "LatLng Tooltip," a feature that shows the latitude and longitude of where the mouse pointer is positioned.
"Aerial Imagery" is available only for certain areas, while the "Where in the World Game" tests your knowledge of world ... >> full
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John E. Dunn, Techworld.com
The unprecedented number of PC users who installed Windows 7release candidate (RC) will soon have to decide whether to upgrade to the new OSor face bi-hourly shutdowns and significant hassle re-installing their old version.
Beginning on February 15, users of machines running the RC will see an expiration message above the taskbar, followed on March 1 by the start  of shutdowns every two hours. The next key date will be June 1, the point at which the entire desktop wallpaper will be replaced with the message "This copy of Windows is not genuine", a state that will nix updates of any kind and the ability to use Microsoft applications.
"To avoid any data loss, I suggest making plans to move to a released version of Windows 7 before the automatic shutdowns start. During these shutdowns, your work will not be saved," says Microsoft's ... >> full
posted by STEPHEN SEABRON February 08, 2010 1:18 PM General comments (0)
The recent Twitter hack raises the challenge of generating secure and unique passwords you can remember.
John E. Dunn, Techworld.com
An analysis of real-world online behavior has warned of the unsettling phenomenon that led to this week's high-profile Twitter login scare. Far too many people reuse the same logins for more than one site.
 Using statistics gatheredfrom the bank login protection software that runs on 4 million PCs over the last year, security vendor Trusteer found that 73 percent of users were using the password for their online bank sites to access at least one other website. Sixty-five percent compounded this risky behavior by using the same ID, while nearly half were lax enough to reuse both.
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