Hot, sexy Dalek girls?!
This was passed on to me yesterday and I just had to share.
Daleks wouldn’t be nearly so intimidating if they looked like this. There would probably be a few more Dr. Who fans too I think.
Thanks to the Life, Dr Who and Combom blog
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VIPRE Antivirus and Antispyware. Less hoggish, just as good
The problem with a lot of Antivirus and Antispyware software is that it tends to be cumbersome and bloated.
By it’s very nature Antivirus Software and the like have to start up with your operating system. You have to wait for the applications to initialize before you can do anything on your computer and it’s always sitting there in the background, scanning and hogging precious resources.
I came across a nice little Antivirus and Antispyware suite that isn’t nearly as resource intensive as the other big names out there and does just as good a job.
VIPRE Antivirus and Antispyware has a big selling point in that their software is high performance yet has a low impact on your system resources.
The software (of course) scans your system in real time, detecting malware, viruses, and more – even in your email.
They have smaller, regular virus definition files so that you don’t have to spend forever waiting for a download.
Gmail now supports Drag and Drop
Image via CrunchBase
Gmail just keeps getting better and better!
Announced yesterday and spotted in my email this morning Gmail now supports Drag and Drop (messages to labels), and a bunch of other cool little features.
The labels have moved (just when I had got used to seeing them on the right of my mail too) they’re on the left, above the chat now.
You can hide and show labels. Gmail has been kind enough to show you the ones you use most to get you started.
No longer do you have to see all the labels, all the time.
You can drag and drop your messages to your labels. Each email message now has a little handle to the left of the check box.
Great stuff!
More at the official Gmail Blog
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New Corporate Lodging Website Helps Businesses Save 50% on Expenses
ATLANTA, July 1, 2009 — Corporate Lodging Consultants Inc.
(CLC), the leading provider of customized lodging programs
for business, has announced the redesign of the company’s
CheckINN Direct Web site, located at
http://www.CheckINNCard.com. The site upgrade makes it
easier for businesses to quickly join the CheckINN Direct
program and to find hotel accommodations at up to 50% off
everyday hotel rates.
"Due to today’s difficult economic climate, all businesses
are examining their costs and looking for ways to save,"
said Julio Farach, Vice President of Marketing at FleetCor.
"The CheckINN Direct card allows small businesses to benefit
from the same hotel savings as larger companies, and the new
site allows them to do it even easier than before."
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It’s a Blu World after all (Gaming and Prizes)
I love it when companies launch new products and services and try to get Social Media types on board to talk about it and drum up some buzz.
Well BluFrog Energy drink is launching and asking people to blog, tweet and comment to win some pretty great looking prizes.
There’s the:
- Blugamer package”: includes an XBox 360 Elite, Rock Band 2 and more.
- Happy Blu-year: which is a trip to New York for you and a friend for New Year’s Eve.
- Blullapalooza: a trip for you and a friend to go to Chicago to attend Lollapaloza.
- BluStreak: The Richard Petty racing experience. Go stock car racing with a friend.
- XtremeBLU: Win a trip to the X Games in Aspen.
I don’t know about you but I’d really like the XtremeBLU package, I despise the cold but I’d work through it to go to the X Games in Aspen. I could live with:
And all for just posting, commenting or tweeting about it?
It’s worth a shot, right? So, check out the site and post about the competition, visit the blog and comment (along with many, many others), or tweet and include the hastag #bluworld and the URL http://bit.ly/UiiJy in the tweet.
Which prize would you like?
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Google Latitude… “Coming Soon” – Really? (iPhone)
For quite some time now Google has promised iPhone users the Google Latitude application. 
To be honest, I thought it would come out with the release of the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone version 3.0 software. Alas it didn’t.
There has been much talk and a great many complaints pertaining to how Google has handled Latitude and it’s iPhone audience.
Currently Google Latitude is supported on:
- Android-powered devices, such as the T-Mobile G1
- iPhone and iPod touch devices (coming soon)
- most color BlackBerry devices
- most Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices
- most Symbian S60 devices (Nokia smartphones)
All the iPhone users have is a “Coming Soon” screen. And it’s all that has been there since Latitude’s initial release.
Some would say that all Google needs to do is not hold that Carrot out and just say “it’s not supported yet”, others think that Google should give iPhone users a release date or at least let them know what the delay is.
Personally, I can’t wait for Google Latitude to appear on the iPhone. I do think it’s taking Google too long to release it on the platform but I’m not going to rant and rave about it (well, at least not much more than I am now).
Google gives us so very many wonderful applications and services, many of them for free. Google Latitude is a free service. Beggars can’t be choosers, right?
If someone else (Microsoft) were to release a Latitude-like service and it were to be available on the iPhone then that would be Google’s loss.
It may not be good business sense to just lease your customers –potential and existing- standing and waiting but let’s face it, it could be another year before Google releases Latitude on the iPhone and we’ll groan and complain about it but we’ll all still download and use it.
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Learn.com launches The Learn.com personal edition (free stuff)
Learn.com is certainly one of the better Elearning services on the Web. As far as I’m concerned at least. 
The idea behind Learn.com is to provide users with a single, central, integrated platform for people wishing to better themselves through skill improvement and general education.
It all aides you in keeping up and giving you the opportunity just to get ahead.
As well as the courses they have laid out already Learn.com allows users to share their development and information with employers.
You can even create your own courses. If you use custom software for example, why not create a course and keep track of who has taken it?