August 2005

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Comcast Offers Free McAfee VirusScan

You can tell I am checking today’s deals, right? I thought this may be of interest to someone. Vanderbilt already provides free McAfee for us but there may be someone you know who needs that.
 
Comcast is offering free McAfee VirusScan to its customers.…

Free Opera (ad-free) Browser Today

Opera is offering free registration to the ad-free version of its browser. Here is what you need to do:
- Download the Opera browser.
- Go here, enter your email address and get your free registration key.
It is their 10-year anniversary. This deal may…

Yahoo 360 Screencast

NOTE: This is a repost of a once popular entry. The original is here.
 
Recently, Yahoo introduced their new social network/blogging service called Yahoo 360. It didn’t take me long to find an invite on an internet site listing several invitations (unfortunately, I…

MSN RSS Aggregator Screencast

NOTE: This is a repost of a once popular entry. The original is here and comments are here.

Yesterday Microsoft made it public that they are working on an web-based RSS Aggregator and also an online bookmark service . It is more like…

Old Screencasts

I had recorded screencasts of MSN start.com and Yahoo 360 that used to bring considerable traffic to my blog. Since my domain name change it seems like they are now buried somewhere in the internet. So, I thought I should repost them…

Worst Pay for the Investment

When I checked Cecilia’s Blog over at PhD Comics, I was expecting to get a fun read. But it turned out to be a rather depressing story from CNN Money.
 
The article analyzes the cost/earning ratios of some professions and lists academic research scientist…