Revealed: How pandemic swine flu kills

As the H1N1 swine flu pandemic continues to spread around the world, most cases are still mild. But reports are starting to emerge of people who sicken and die very quickly of what appears to be viral pneumonia. Now two independent groups of scientists have now found out why – and it's all down the where the virus binds within the body.
Revealed: How pandemic swine flu kills

Clever e-mail scam: Someone bought this in your name

The e-mail appears to come from PayPal, a popular institution often imitated by scammers. What's unusual is that it seems to be a confirmation of a purchase, for more than $400, paid from my PayPal account. There's even a realistic-looking transaction, including the name and address of the person whom you're supposed to assume made the purchase.
Clever e-mail scam: Someone bought this in your name

The Best Money Advice, in Ten Words or Less

About a week ago, Simple Dollar blog challenged their followers on Twitter to give their best single piece of money advice in ten words or less. Here are the fifty best pieces of advice that came their way. All of these are stellar money tips - and all of them come in with ten words or less. Enjoy.
The Best Money Advice, in Ten Words or Less

Most Complete Earth Map Published

The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency NASA and the Japanese trade ministry. The images were taken by Japan’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (Aster) aboard the Terra satellite.The resulting Global Digital Elevation Map covers 99% of the Earth’s surface, and will be free to download and use.
Most Complete Earth Map Published

Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google

How do you find a new search engine if all you know is Google? Typing “search engine” into the usual box might lead you to Microsoft’s newly launched Bing, the combined search at Dogpile, or the former king of search, Altavista.
But for those willing to dig around, searching for search engines can reveal a treasure trove: The net is rich with specialized search services, all trying to find a way to get their slice of the billions of dollars Google makes every year answering queries.
Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 20 - July 1, 2009

The latest issue of new family friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 20 - July 1, 2009

Australian Social Trends, June 2009

From the ABS - the June issue features articles about transitions in people's living arrangements, as well as how they work and student achievements in maths and science.
Australian Social Trends, June 2009

WARNING: New Facebook Scams Today, Junfunrun and Bulitre

Mashable have previously covered a number of Facebook scams, most designed to steal your Facebook login details to spam your friends. Today another such scam popped up: the Mashable team currently has multiple mails from “Junfunrun [dot] com” and “Bulitre [dot] com” (don’t visit those domains).
WARNING: New Facebook Scams Today, Junfunrun and Bulitre

LIVESTRONG: 1.9 Billion Calories Burned in One Year

LIVESTRONG.com is the social networking piece of the Lance Armstrong Foundation (making remarkable strides in social media for social good) that aims to help people better their lives with tools and resources for diet, nutrition, and fitness.
LIVESTRONG: 1.9 Billion Calories Burned in One Year

Download Microsoft Security Essentials

You might have been one of the lucky ones who was able to download the beta of Microsoft antivirus software program Security Essentials. Chance is you missed the opportunity as Microsoft has limited the beta downloads to 75000. Users who want to download Microsoft Security Essentials today are notified that downloads are not available at this time.
Download Microsoft Security Essentials

Microsoft hikes Win7 prices for Australia

Australian buyers of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system will pay between AU$50 and AU$150 more in real terms than US residents for the software, the company revealed this morning.
Microsoft hikes Win7 prices for Australia

Your digital camera: Avoid these common goofs

When it comes to caring for your camera, are you a fastidious photographer or a slipshod shutterbug? Our survey of 8,250 ConsumerReports.org subscribers by the Consumer Reports National Research Center revealed that many failed to make the best use of their newest point-and-shoot.
Your digital camera: Avoid these common goofs

Microsoft Announces Windows 7 Pricing

(US prices) Microsoft has officially announced the initial pricing for Windows 7, and Home Premium will indeed be $200, or $40 less than the initial and today’s pricing of Windows Vista. Unfortunately, this is more than what some of us hoped it would be considering the state of today’s economy and Snow Leopard’s upgrade pricing of $30 and the full price of $170.
Microsoft Announces Windows 7 Pricing

Search Me

Inside the launch of Stephen Wolfram's new "computational knowledge engine."
Search Me

Windows 7 Beta To Go Into Crazy Mode On July 1

You might want to consider switching to the Windows 7 Release Candidate before July 1 if you are still running the (excellent) Windows 7 Beta release. The beta will go into crazy mode – please bare with me, those are my words for what will be happening from that day on – which simply means that the operating system will reboot every 2 hours automatically to give the user a friendly reminder that the Windows 7 beta has reached the end of its lifetime.
Windows 7 Beta To Go Into Crazy Mode On July 1

Ultimate Credit Card Guide - Information for Using Credit Cards Wisely

If you're looking for credit card information, you've come to the right place. Get the facts on credit card fees and programs, learn how to use credit cards wisely (get the benefits without the debt) and if you have gathered a bit of credit card debt, get the most effective methods on paying them off.
Ultimate Credit Card Guide - Information for Using Credit Cards Wisely

Improve Your Sleep Posture

We tend to apply ergonomics as it relates to our waking activities. But utilizing the right sleep posture is just as important as having the right PC posture, especially if you want to enjoy a pain-free morning and day.
Improve Your Sleep Posture

Set File Associations Without Writing To The Windows Registry

File associations are written to the Windows Registry by default. This usually happens during the installation of the operating system and computer software programs. Installing Microsoft Word will make it the default word processor on the computer system with file types like docx or doc opened by it by default. The same is true for many other applications like software music players, video players and basically any other tool that can open files automatically.
Set File Associations Without Writing To The Windows Registry

Dud Is A Program That Does Nothing

It feels rather strange reviewing a software program that does absolutely nothing. If you start Dud it will immediately terminate its process using 60 Kilobytes of computer memory in the short meantime. The question that is probably in your mind right now is about the usefulness of a program like Dud. Why would someone want to run a software program that terminates a second after execution?
Dud Is A Program That Does Nothing

Top 12 Important Social Media Stories This Week

This week was dominated by two big stories: the iPhone and the Iran election crisis. Apple released the iPhone 3.0 OS upgrade and a brand new iPhone, the 3G S. Tweetdeck also jumped into the Twitter app race with its own free iPhone application.
Top 12 Important Social Media Stories This Week