ISSN 1488-3163; PC Improvements © 2004
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Welcome to the 303rd issue of the PC Improvement News. PCIN consists mainly of news and tips. There is something for everyone, and if this is your first issue, I'm sure there will be something for you. If you give me two or three issues, I know that you will come back for more!
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Everyone is doing well here. Matthew was just at the doctor's office for his one month checkup, and Andrew was there for his two year checkup. They are both doing great. Be sure to check out the Wing Family web site for picture updates.
I will be away for a long weekend next weekend, so Chris will be sending out the newsletter next Wednesday. For this week's PCIN, he has finished a review of Photoshop Elements 2.0 plus Photoshop Album 2.0 by Adobe which you can read about in the Tips and Other Stuff section.
Graham editor@pcin.net and Chris chris@pcin.net
Search and destroy: "The future of search" and Microsoft
The footsteps heard by Google Inc. are coming from this pine-studded Seattle suburb where the dreams of Silicon Valley upstarts often have been dashed.
Once again, activity is stirring on the sprawling campus of Microsoft Corp. Once again the software company is playing catch-up in a technology field where its famously driven management team was slow to spot an opportunity -- and threat.
And once again technologists are betting the ultimate winner in the coming donnybrook over computer search won't be today's market leader, Google, or its Bay Area rival, Yahoo Inc., which now powers Microsoft's consumer search site. It will be the Puget Sound software goliath, which is known as a ferocious competitor.For more info:
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/08/02/search_and_destroy/
Merriam-Webster adds 'MP3,' 'DSL' and other techie terms
"'Teensploitation's' time has come -- at least in the dictionary. 'Pleather,' 'body wrap,' 'MP3,' and 'information technology' are among the other words and phrases that have gotten the nod from the editors at Merriam-Webster in the annual update of their Collegiate Dictionary."
For more info:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/184439_webster01ww.html
Hospitals move toward 'paperless' age
"With no patient chart in sight, Dr. Sheila Gamache strides into Thom Kolby's hospital room to check on him a day after the 54-year-old arrived ashen-faced and perilously close to death with a clogged artery starving his heart of oxygen.
Rather than flipping through a clipboard thick with pages of notations and test results, Gamache gets up to speed on Kolby's condition simply by logging onto a wireless notepad she carries on her daily rounds at the Indiana Heart Hospital.
Like a handful of others nationwide, the Indianapolis hospital has traded its once scattered medical charts, file folders, X-rays and other documents for a unified electronic records system accessible with a few keystrokes."For more info:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/08/04/paperless.hospitals.ap/index.html
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Do you every use the Hibernate or Standby features of your computer?
Yes, I use both 23 % (14) Yes, I use Hibernate 15 % (9) Yes, I use Standby 29 % (18) No, I don't use either because I don't know how 6 % (4) No, I don't use either, but I'd like to 13 % (8) I don't know what the Hibernate and Standby features do 15 % (9) Total votes: 62
This Week's Poll
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Check out these new or updated pages on the PCIN.net site:
Photoshop Elements 2.0 plus Photoshop Album 2.0 by Adobe Software Review
http://PCIN.net/help/software/elementsplusalbum.phpUpdated PCIN.net Site Search
http://PCIN.net/search.phpUpdated Windows Registry Tips and Tweaks Article
http://PCIN.net/help/articles/registry_tips.phpMySlideShow 2.3 by Anix Software Software Software Review
http://PCIN.net/help/software/myslideshow.phpAnyplace Control by Anyplace Control Software Software Review
http://PCIN.net/help/software/anyplacecontrol.php
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Photoshop Elements 2.0 plus Photoshop Album 2.0 by Adobe Software Review
Today's digital camera's provide many benefits for their users: instant photographs, the ability to delete pictures, printing at home, and being able to shoot many photos without worry of the cost that would be associated with film and developing. One drawback though is finding an effective method of cataloging these images. Adobe has recently released Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 plus Photoshop Album 2.0. Photoshop Elements 2.0 can be used for creating slideshows, e-cards and greeting cards, as well as touching up and modifying your images. Guides help make difficult tasks a snap. Photoshop Album 2.0 is a great piece of software for cataloging your images. Tags can be applied to images to make them easy to find based on content.
Read the full review at http://www.pcin.net/help/software/elementsplusalbum.php
JT's Tips
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