Will the Internet be ever safe for children to browse? If there are the so-called growing “Chinese army of hackers”, in contrary, European Union is extending its net safety programme that has started four years ago, to prevent children from inappropriate content and cyber bullying.

The European Commission is spending 55m euros (£42m) on making the net a safer place for children.

That is some price of technology we have to pay.

This is how my main screen appears. A screenshot of my late cat, Ladygishi, and a flower from my mother-in-law. Is it obvious that I miss my cat? Anyway, in the sidebar docked are just some news feed and weather watch in our area gadgets. Shortcuts.

Touch Typing: is the fastest way to type in which the typist does not use the sense of sight, or does not look at the keyboard, but rather use the finger muscle memory.

In the present technology, with its endless possibilities, do you think we still need the keyboard for some years? Who knows what once-unthinkable things science brings. While that does not yet happen, “it is worth the time you invest in learning this essential skill” of speed typing to easily achieve an ideal writing speed of 70 words per minute.

Some of the suggested ways of improving typing speeds in touch typing are:

- Ensuring a correct posture
- Exerting only the correct amount of force required ie. not to bang on the keys
- Taking frequent breaks to relax and improve accuracy
- Using an optimized keyboard layout such as Dvorak or Colemak.

I am 25 words off the ideal. My fingers are not as dextrous when it comes to typing as Francine. Passing this to Debbie.

45 words

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Warning?! Seems like there’s a rough road ahead for windows vista users.

Microsoft needs a Vista success. As Service Packs are among the biggest updates Microsoft issues for its various operating systems, the software giant will be releasing the SP1 update for Windows Vista, for success in mid-March, although business customers are availing it in February. The software firm said SP1 makes Vista more secure and reliable and introduces some new features. But this needed success will be a concern for vista users.

Microsoft is warning Windows Vista users that a forthcoming service pack for the operating system may stop some twelve (12) third-party programs working.

And it happens that the list of programs that may be broken by the SP1 update for Vista are security programs that prevent Windows users falling prey to viruses, Trojans and booby-trapped WebPages six of which block viruses or keep an eye on the places someone visits online. PROGRAMS HIT BY SP1 which some will be blocked by the update, some will not run and others will lose some of their functions are:

• BitDefender AV
• Fujitsu Shock Sensor
• Jiangmin KV Antivirus 10
• Jiangmin KV Antivirus 2008
• Trend Micro Internet Security
• Zone Alarm Security Suite
• Iron Speed Designer
• Xheo Licensing
• Free Allegiance
• NYT Reader
• Rising Personal Firewall
• Novell ZCM Agent

Microsoft warned that its list was not “comprehensive” and asked people to get in touch with the maker of any affected software to fix problems, BBC said. So my security program is not gonna work? That’s a headache.

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Hurray! Another check mark on the list! I got a new laptop! This is the second one I got this year. The first one was a gift to my sister, and now in preparation for my going back to school, hubby got me another one, and besides, two days from now is my birthday . It is a sexy looking Dell XPS M1530 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo 3070MB RAM laptop, pretty fast and powerful.

With the communication I’ve got these days, I see that that they have fixed the extensive Internet failure Thursday that hit two continents in less than a week. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, the Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and India, are all experiencing severe problems they believed caused by two damaged undersea cables in the Mediterranean that collectively account for the majority of international communications between Europe and the Middle East, though many governments in the Middle East have backup satellite systems in case of cable failure.

High-technology services and everything else around the globe depends so much on the internet that an interruption in service is crippling and causing major disruptions to businesses, television and phone services, and this individual:

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