When your web posts come back to haunt you
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Views expressed online can land you in trouble at work. Take the case of CNN Producer Chez Pazienza. While recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumour the size of a pinball in 2006, Pazienza decided to start a blog to record his thoughts, brush up on his writing skills and generally pass the time [...]
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Get the web’s best apps on your desktop
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Prism – the ‘distraction free browser’ currently bubbling away in the Mozilla Labs – takes your favourite websites and turns them into configurable desktop programs. As the line between desktop and online applications begins to blur, Prism gives you a way to create individual shortcuts to the web services you use habitually. Instead of opening [...]
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ILM: Pushing the FX envelope
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High-end computing projects don’t happen in a fantasy realm where someone waves a wand and a fully formed project bursts forth with just the flick of a wrist.
Just ask Tim Alexander, the Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic, based near downtown San Francisco. It was Alexander’s team who figured out how to [...]
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