An Important Website for disabled users has just been launched by the BBC.

Read more … BBC - My Web My Way - Homepage

The Internet is an ocean of scams, porn, and cyberpirates. To be safe you need to be smart and prepared.

Here’s a website to help you to learn more about using the Internet wisely:

WiredSafety is the world’s largest online safety and help group

The best tool for writers has been upgraded to version 3.0 … And it’s still free.

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Rough Draft Freeware

Engineers at Cornell University have created a robot that can build other robots exactly like themselves. I won’t start to worry until the robots can build robots better than themselves.

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New Robot Reproduces on Its Own

There’s a lot more you can do with Google than simply typing words into the box. Get to know Google’s searching power with these links:

Google Search Features

Google Cheat Sheet

Phishing is the latest rage in Internet scamming. Here’s how it works: you get an email that appears to be from Ebay, PayPal, or your bank or credit card company. The email demands that you give them personal information. When you click the link, you are taken to a website that looks like the real site, but is fake.

How can you stay safe? … Never, never, never supply personal information in response to an email. Never click links in the emails: go to the original website by typing their URL into your web browser.

Read more:
Phishing Scams And What You Can Do About It

Jakob Nielsen presents a grimly amusing article about the catastrophic effects of poor usability in many fields, especially medicine.

Medical Usability: How to Kill Patients Through Bad Design (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

Starting April 12, your Windows XP Operating System will automatically upgrade itself to the next version. Wouldn’t it have been more polite to ask?

You can stop the update this way: Turn off your Automatic Update feature.

How to Disable Windows XP Automatic Update:

1. Click your START BUTTON
2. Click on the Control Panel.
3. Click System
4. Select that TAB that says: Automatic Updates
5. Un-check the box that says: “Keep my computer up to date”
6. Click OK.

To see it visually, go here:
Windows XP FAQ Answers

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