Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Tech Links: February 28, 2012


Ultimate Braille Phone by Shikun Sun

News


EU suspends ACTA ratification, refers treaty to court

Entertainment


Infographic: Anticipation Of The iPad 3 In The U.S.

Reading & Discussion


How to Ruin Your Life in 14 Minutes: Or Why We Need a Serious Conversation About the Ethics of Social Media

Is Megaupload's founder a criminal mastermind, or the world's most entertaining scapegoat? A file-sharing wizard's ridiculous rise and fall.

A new study shows that the nature of a person's Facebook profile can help predict the person's performance as an employee. It may be time to delete those kegger photos.

So how much is a fair price to pay for an e-book?

Resources & Tools


Angry Birds chief: piracy is good for business

OpenStreetMap: It's the Wikipedia of maps

Windows on the iPad may be least annoying version of Windows ever.

Technology


Google’s ‘Terminator glasses’ will turn us all into insufferable sci-fi nerds

Tutorials


Choosing good passwords - a straightforward real-world guide for the average user, by AusCERT. Also includes links out to a fun and informative piece on The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time, and more in-depth material aimed at the tech and security savvy, like this enjoyable conference talk: Security As If Your Life Depended On It (because it might!). So we can avoid becoming xkcd cartoons.

How to Prevent YouTube from Keeping a Record of The Videos You Watch

How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect on 1 March If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.

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