Windows7: DESKTOP.INI appears in Desktop

Few weeks ago I found a brand new file in my desktop: desktop.ini.
It wasn’t me!

Here its content:

[LocalizedFileNames]
Feedback Tool.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\FeedbackTool.dll,-1065
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21799

Don’t know where it come from, what created it but …
here are some info:
Notepad Starts With …

desktop.ini verändert / gelöscht. was nun? (lang german)

Hack to Remove and Disable Send Feedback Tool in Windows 7 Beta

Have a nice reading

ps: just a note: in my registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\FeedbackToolEnabled=3

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ToDoList 5.8.5 released

What’s new from 5.8.5:

* task reminders
* FTP support (via the File menu)
* Task icons (Edit > Other Task Attributes > Set Task Icon)
* Time component added to Start dates
* Restored preference to control refiltering when editing (mainly to fix a specific bug)
* Numbered bullets added to Rich Edit comments
* Simple theming (4 sample themes included in the Resources folder)
* Separate preference for hiding Start time
* Added preference to control maximum width of columns

source: ToDoList 5.8.5 – A simple but effective way to keep on top of your tasks

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Internet shape our minds

More than a century ago, when first microcomputer walked in our houses, young boys used to play…work with that new toy for many ours.
Childs use to be very quick learning machine with new tech-toys, rather than jurassic adult people.
Do you remember yourself or your childs in these words ?
Here is a paper about how new toys (internet) change our minds.

For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the Internet. The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer.
[...]
For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many, and they’ve been widely described and duly applauded.
[...]
My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

You may read the whole post here: Is Google Making Us Stupid?

source: Internet plasma il cervello

Google Fusion Tables: an experimental system for data management in the cloud

Today we’re introducing Google Fusion Tables on Labs, an experimental system for data management in the cloud. [...] Fusion Tables [...] is on fusing data management and collaboration: merging multiple data sources, discussion of the data, querying, visualization, and Web publishing. We plan to iteratively add new features to the systems as we get feedback from users.

source: Google Fusion Tables

a very simple but interesting experiment …

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Opera Turbo: some cookie problems – solution

I’ve already wrote about it, here.
Now, I’ve just upgrade to Opera 10, build 1551.

Now everything seems to be ok.

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