Freedom Hall: Birthplace of the high five?
Submitted by IgLou1 on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 13:01Was the “high five” invented at Freedom Hall? That’s a bit like asking who invented rap music or the Internet. There’s really no definitive answer, and many lay claim to it (including Dusty Baker!). However, Louisville can certainly lay claim to popularizing the high five.
During the Cardinals’ 1979-80 national championship season, a trio of players from Georgia (Derek Smith, Wiley Brown and Daryl Cleveland) used a national spotlight to popularize the celebration.
Here is how the Lexington Herald Leader described it in 2007:
How to Enable or Disable the Windows Firewall in Windows 7.
Submitted by IgLou1 on Tue, 03/16/2010 - 12:07A firewall is a software or hardware base solution to filter the incoming and outgoing traffic of your computer or network. All the entering or leaving traffic from your computer pass through the firewall, which inspect the all types of traffic and either allow or deny the traffic depending upon the firewall settings. Microsoft includes the built-in firewall feature in all latest windows operating systems like windows XP, Vista and now in windows 7.
Follow the given steps to configure built-in firewall in windows 7:
YouTube Adds Captions to Its Videos
Submitted by IgLou1 on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 12:01YouTube is opening up its auto-caption feature to everybody, a move that benefits not only deaf users, but also people who watch videos in really noisy places, like airport terminals.
And since the tool will be able to translate captions into your choice of 50 languages, it should be handy for viewing YouTube clips from around the world. (For now, however, auto-captioning works only with videos in English.)
Google Fiber for Communities - Let's Get it Here in Louisville!
Submitted by IgLou1 on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 15:37Google Press Release
Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We'll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.
Internet Search Tip
Submitted by IgLou1 on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 15:05Use Boolean Operators
The biggest mistake a search engine user makes is to enter a single nondescript keyword. If you type “car” into Google and click the Google Search button, you will receive over 900 million search results! To narrow your search, start by adding more keywords. Adding the keywords battery dead after car will return less than a million search hits. To hone your search further, you will need to construct a complex query. A complex query uses Boolean operators to define the relationships among your keywords.
Internet Jargon and What They Mean
Submitted by IgLou1 on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 17:04Below is a list of commonly used Internet terms and their meanings.
Adware
Advertising program often installed along with other programs
Attachment
A file attached to an e-mail message for sending between computers
Blog
Web log. Personal web page where the author can post their views and experiences and receive comments.
BMP
Bitmap. The most common graphics file type for Windows PCs
Bookmarks
List of your favourite web sites
Browser
404 Error Message: A Description of the 404 Error Code and What it Means
Submitted by IgLou1 on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 14:09We've all received an 404 error while searching the Internet.
File not found - requested URL not found on this server
It's annoying, especially when you've searched for something and found what looks like the perfect site. At least the description exactly matches your needs. You click and boom, a 404 error appears. Whoops. What happened to that perfect site?
Are You Password Protected?
Submitted by IgLou1 on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 13:55Are you doing enough to protect your business by having secure passwords? And do you have different passwords that can't easily be traced?
Many people use the same password for everything - from their private work accounts, containing a plethora of confidential details, through to their own personal Facebook or social networking account.
'Boredom Can Kill You'
Submitted by IgLou1 on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 16:01Boredom can actually kill you, a new study has revealed.
To reach the conclusion, researchers at University College London looked at data from 7524 civil servants, aged between 35 and 55, interviewed between 1985 and 1988 about their levels of boredom.
They then found out whether they had died by April last year.
Those who reported feeling a great deal of boredom were 37 percent more likely to have died by the end of the study, the researchers found.
SAVE INK - How To Print a Webpage Without the Background?
Submitted by IgLou1 on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 15:45You can print out any webpage with or without its background colors using Internet Explorer settings. To print without simply disable Internet Explorer setting for "Print background colors and images".
To enable or disable this option, open your system Internet Explorer.
Click the Tools menu and then click on Internet Options. Here, click the Advanced tab then scroll down to find the Printing section.
Now check the option "Print background colors and images" then hit Apply and OK.



