All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by Microsoft The Inside Scoop on E-Mail Security Vendors Gartner's Magic Quadrant whitepaper on e-mail security vendors pulls no punches. Discover which vendors will be here next year and which won't in this market Gartner calls "ripe for consolidation." Download today and get independent, detailed analysis on 18 vendors and their products. Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 05/29/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: A salmagundi for CD and DVD creation Every now and then we have days when things digital just get us torqued. Days when applications bomb, files get corrupted, the network clogs up and software does something that is just simply irritating. To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Get the latest thinking on the core issues reshaping the new data center. Download our new Executive Guide "Data Center Decisions" to sharpen your competitive edge. The comprehensive range of topics includes: Data Center Trends, User Case Studies, Heat/Power issues and key products for the data center. Click to Download Backspin: Astounded by things legal I am astounded. No, not over Melinda Dolittle getting booted from "American Idol" (although the gods know that was a bizarre and irritating decision on the part of the great unwashed). I am astounded by things legal. To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days Free Online Virus and Malware Scan I just switched my AV software to Avira's AntiVir Personal Edition Classic. I ran a scan immediately after installing it, and it alerted on c:\winnt\browser.exe, claiming I had a trojan. My old software hadn't been complaining, so naturally I wanted a third opinion. Enter Virustotal. Digitizing Books One Word at a Time reCAPTCHA is an effort by the Carnegie Mellon University to use those little security programs called CAPTCHAs to correct OCR errors in the Internet Archive project. Questions, Questions, Questions Yet another test of something that I'm going to discuss in the Network World Web Applications newsletter: Subscribe now or wait until the issue hits the archives. Pew Internet Releases New Spam Report A new report from the Pew Research Center concludes: "The volume of spam is growing in Americans' personal and workplace e-mail accounts, but e-mail users are less bothered by it." In Web Applications: Getting around Web filtering In my Web applications newsletter this week, I look at proxies that might let you get around them. Thoughts?

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Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here. Archives of the Network World Web Applications newsletter can be found here. This newsletter is sponsored by Microsoft The Inside Scoop on E-Mail Security Vendors Gartner's Magic Quadrant whitepaper on e-mail security vendors pulls no punches. Discover which vendors will be here next year and which won't in this market Gartner calls "ripe for consolidation." Download today and get independent, detailed analysis on 18 vendors and their products. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007