Lifehack: Gmail Favicon

I’ve recently become a follower of the Lifehacker blog.  I picked up a copy of Upgrade Your Life to read on the plane during a recent business trip.  I found that I had dog-eared so many pages of cool tips and tricks, it would have been easier to just rip out the few pages that didn’t seem useful.  So, if you haven’t been reading it, here’s a link to a recent helpful tip.  Gmail users that use the Firefox browser (with Greasmonkey) can turn the Gmail favicon into something more useful than a picture of an envelope.

Fact or Fiction: Evaluating Internet Sources

With the abundant open source information available on the web, it is increasingly important to ascertain the validity of information and investigate authorship.  I can recommend several great references.  These tutorials provide investigators and researchers with excellent criteria to consider when reviewing web content:

Evaluating Internet Research Sources by Dr. Robert Harris (thanks to David Jimenez for the tip)

What They Don’t Teach in Detective School by Richard McEachin at The Confidential Resource blog

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask a tutorial at UC Berkeley

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet a tutorial at Johns Hopkins University