We Reported More Scams Last Year, But Got Sucked In Less

It’s National Consumer Fraud Week, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has marked the occasion by releasing its annual statistics on the numbers of scams reported to it in 2010. The total number? 42,000, which is more than double the 2009 figure of 20,000.
We Reported More Scams Last Year, But Got Sucked In Less

Screen Reading Before Bed Still Bad for Sleep, and We All Still Do It

We've known for years that viewing electronics before bed disturbs or prevents sleep. But the National Sleep Foundation finds that 95 percent of people are staring at screens—and two-thirds don't get enough sleep during the week.
Screen Reading Before Bed Still Bad for Sleep, and We All Still Do It

Internet Explorer 6 – Not as Unpopular as you Might Think!

Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 6 some 10 years ago around the same time as Windows XP. Lot has changed in the browser world since then but IE 6, the most criticized browser of all times, refuses to go away.
Internet Explorer 6 – Not as Unpopular as you Might Think!

Get a Random Homepage for your Browser

When it comes to choosing a homepage for our web browsers, we all have different preferences. Some people prefer a blank start page, some may want to see thumbnails of most frequently visited sites (like in Chrome) while others may be more happy seeing their favorite website (like news.yahoo.com) set as their browser's homepage.
Get a Random Homepage for your Browser

Satellite map of the Christchurch earthquake

This is what the effects of an earthquake look like from space. Vertical movement was mapped by a Japanense satellite as the ground shifted closer to it (blue) or further from it (red).
Satellite map of the Christchurch earthquake

Virtual Cafe opens to help New Zealand Earthquake victims

The Christchurch cafe is a site where you can buy virtual items you might find in a coffee shop, from a $2 espresso to a $300 espresso machine. This is a creative and interesting way of raising aid donations: 100% of funds raised go directly to the community in Christchurch, New Zealand, which was hit hard by the earthquake last week. It's an inspired way to encourage people to help out financially after a disaster.
Virtual Cafe opens to help New Zealand Earthquake victims

Taking the Pain Out of Reinstalling Windows

Sometimes there’s nothing you can do when your copy of Windows is malfunctioning other than a complete format and reinstall. This is always a pain, but how can you take the pain out of the process? Here’s the ghacks guide to taking the pain out of reinstalling Windows from scratch.
Taking the Pain Out of Reinstalling Windows

What’s The Best Bookmark Manager?

Every web browser comes with bookmarking capabilities, and while bookmarking is not as popular as it was ten years ago, it is fair to assume that the majority of computer users make use of bookmarks. What is a bookmark? Standard bookmarks are nothing more than links that point to a web address. Bookmarks are like an address book, only for web properties and not people or businesses.
What’s The Best Bookmark Manager?

What You Said: Malware Fighting Tips and Tricks

Today How-To-Geek is rounding up some of the tips and tricks from an Ask the Reader post "What Are Your Best Malware Fighting Tricks" and highlighting them below.
What You Said: Malware Fighting Tips and Tricks

Microsoft Begs Users to Stop Using IE 6

Like the rest of us, Microsoft is ready to move beyond Internet Explorer 6. The software giant has launched a new website, The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown, that bears the slogan: “Moving the world off Internet Explorer 6.”
Microsoft Begs Users to Stop Using IE 6

Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Vanity Edition

We are all the main players in our own, personal films — tortured Dorian Grays rendered oh-so blue in the presence of our fading youth, staring in the glass, transfixed by our glittering reflections. In short, pretty much everyone is completely and totally self-absorbed, which is why this week’s YouTube roundup is all about you — well, vanity, actually.
Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Vanity Edition

Hold a Nail Steady with These Household Objects (and Avoid Crushing Your Fingers)

For the uncoordinated among us, simple tasks like hammering a nail can be pretty harrowing. Weblog DIY Life has a simple tip for keeping your thumbs safe—just hold the nail with some needlenose pliers.
Hold a Nail Steady with These Household Objects (and Avoid Crushing Your Fingers)

How Difficult Decisions Trick Your Brain Into Thinking They're Important

Have you ever stood in the supermarket, deciding between two different types of toothpaste, when suddenly you realize you've been there for ten minutes? Here's how you're being tricked into thinking small decisions are actually important.
How Difficult Decisions Trick Your Brain Into Thinking They're Important

The Current Crop of Tablets (Fairly) Compared: The iPad 2, Xoom, and Galaxy Tab

This should give you a pretty good comparison between the most popular tablets out today, as far as hardware is concerned.
The Current Crop of Tablets (Fairly) Compared: The iPad 2, Xoom, and Galaxy Tab

Get a free website for your business

Google and MYOB have come together to create Getting Aussie Business Online. We’re taking the time, hassle and cost out of getting a website so that you can get on with running your business.
Get a free website for your business

Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 5/2011

The latest issue of new Family Friendly sites listed on The Black Stump.
Family Friendly sites listed on Blackstump Australia Issue 5/2011

Here’s What The Most Average Person In The World Looks Like

National Geographic went about collecting statistics on the world’s population (which currently stands at 7 billion). Know what they found? Apparently, the most average/typical/frequent person on this planet is male, 28-years-old and is Han Chinese in ethnicity (with 9,000,000 alive). But they didn’t stop there. Taking images from 190,000 of those fitting the criteria, researchers created a composite image to show what the most average person looks like.
Here’s What The Most Average Person In The World Looks Lik

How We’ll Beat Traffic and Find Parking Spots in the Future

Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. is confident that the auto industry is on its way to eliminating CO2 emissions. He’s less confident, however, that the world is prepared to adequately deal with an even larger problem: the global gridlock created by a population set to grow to 9 billion people by 2044.
How We’ll Beat Traffic and Find Parking Spots in the Future

WebBrowserPassView, Reveal Browser Passwords

All modern web browsers have options to store passwords for the user which is beneficial in two ways; Users do not have to remember their passwords every time they want to log into a service on the Internet, and they do not have to enter the data into the forms manually. The downside are security implications and potential recovery issues. Most web browsers offer to protect the stored passwords with a master password to avoid unauthorized access to the passwords. The feature is however usually deactivated and needs to be activated first.
WebBrowserPassView, Reveal Browser Passwords

You Have Never Seen The Sun So Close

Our friends at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have sent us this spectacular 16:9 panoramic high definition close-up of a recent gigantastic solar flare. What you are seeing here occurred during 90 minutes on February 24, 2011.
You Have Never Seen The Sun So Close