DesignCharts

October 30, 2006  |  By YGG  |  Stuff We Love   

This recently launched site is the Billboard of website ranking. It lists the top 40 flash sites around the world based upon data it gathers from several other gallery sites. If you want to see what’s hot in the web scene and interact with the best of the best, you have to drop by DesignCharts. That’s why we love ‘em.

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You don’t always die from smoking

October 27, 2006  |  By Travis  |  Articles   

I’m not sure how many of our readers smoke. To each his own. But I wanted to share the latest ad from The Truth initiative. It’s not just a prime example of effective advertising but possibly the best public service announcement to date.

Any smokers that are reading, I’m not trying to get you to quit, but this ad is. Sometimes it doesn’t hurt if you do what an ad tells you to.

Here’s the link for the ad if you can’t see it above. Please share it with others.

Channel Frederator

October 27, 2006  |  By YGG  |  Stuff We Love   

Every week or so Channel Frederator releases a new episode of animated glory. The episodes feature some of the best animated work from around the world and are sure to make you laugh or think. You’ll love this Channel as much as we do.

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43 Folders

October 25, 2006  |  By YGG  |  Stuff We Love   

Most people are happy with a few hundred RSS subscribers. Well, Merlin Mann has built a loyal subscriber-ship of nearly 60,000 readers at 43 Folders. That number’s not questionable with the great content about productivity and making your life run smoother with a few little tweaks. We love 43 Folders for one-upping 42 Folders.

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One virus, two virus, three virus, four

October 23, 2006  |  By Travis  |  Articles   

To go hand in hand with this week’s poll, I’ll talk about a habitual notion. If you’re like most people, you can look around your office and within arm’s reach will be a ream of cds or dvds. They’ve been anxiously staring at you for a few months’ time.

You heard about all those viruses on the go and headed to your local geekery shop, bought your backup media, and were gun-ho in ensuring those years of work are backed up.

Amazing how a threat can get you to drive to a store, hand your money over to a cashier, bring the cds home, but not follow through with actually backing your data up.

If you were to calculate the amount hours, sweat, and tears you put into every single piece of data on your computer it would be well into the thousands. Now take all of that and delete it. Why the hell would you do that? Well you wouldn’t, but somebody else will try to at some point.

Hackers can be slowed down with firewalls, software, and common sense, but 9 times out of 10 you’ll be the one that accidentally downloaded an infected file from a colleague, which leads to your computer’s slate being wiped clean in no time.

So take the time this week, only a couple hours, and back up every important document on your computer. You’ll thank me for this public service announcement if something tragic was to ever happen to your computer.

GigaOM

October 23, 2006  |  By YGG  |  Stuff We Love   

If you’ve ever read an issue of Business 2.0 chances are you’ve heard of Om Malik. He was a regular writer who still occasionally drops by the magazine. He’s now established himself in the world of blogs with his baby called GigaOM. If you have any interest in the web biz, technology, or big moolah, GigaOM is right at the top of the must read list. That’s why we love Om and his Giga.

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