John Collins rounds up this week's essentials

WATCH:

Call of Duty:  Modern Warfare 2

PEOPLE QUEUED at midnight to buy it and it looks set to be the best-selling computer games of all time so it's little surprise that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2is also dominating viewing on YouTube this week.

If you’ve bought the game, get searching and you’ll find hundreds of video tips. If you have yet to make the plunge or are scratching your head over the hype, watch this review from video game site IGN which manages to balance its obvious enthusiasm with some valid criticism.

http://bit.ly/3Eov60

SUPPORT:

Movember fundraiser

MOVEMBER WAS born out of a bar-room discussion in Australia in 2003 but last year 173,000 people got involved and raised over €14 million for men’s health charities worldwide.

Participants start the month of “Movember” clean shaven and have a month to grow a moustache or “mo”. Visit the Irish site and you can find friends taking part and donate online. http://ie.movember.com

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Murdoch  vs Google

COMMENTS BY media mogul Rupert Murdoch this week, about Google and other websites stealing his newspapers’ content, got web commentators in a lather. In an interview with Sky News Australia, Murdoch said he would consider blocking Google from indexing his sites and accused the search giant of being a parasite by listing his content in Google News.

Popular tech news site TechDirt responds with this article listing the News International sites that perform exactly the kind of aggregation Murdoch railed against.

http://bit.ly/2eBqKE

BOOKMARK:

Google  Dashboard

THERE HAS been a lot discussed and written about just how much data Google and other search engines store on an individual. Such conversations can sometimes seem a little abstract – who would be interested in the minutiae of my online life?

Well, if you have a Google account (you have one if you have a Gmail address), prepare to be shocked. Log on to Google Dashboard and find out what the search engine stores on you, from your search history to the number of contacts you have on Gmail.

http://google.com/dashboard