Day archives: April 18th, 2005

Getting SPAM from a person in a foreign language?

Subscriber John Mood sent me this: Getting SPAM from a person in a foreign language? Always wanted to know what your friends at work say in a language you don’t know? OK, here’s the scoop on translation. http://www.mezzofanti.org/ has links to translator sites for almost every language you might imagine. I found Polish, Arabic, Slovenian, …

Alberta fee means rise in PC costs

From itWorldCanada: Each computer his company purchases may be as much as $30 more expensive today than they were this time last year, but you won’t hear Darren Ruhr complaining about the premium. Ruhr, IT director at Precision Drilling Corp., a Calgary-based contract drilling supplier servicing the oil and gas industry, figures it’s money well …

Multi-Desktop Software

Subscriber John Mood sent me this: I just found a very neat program that lets you toggle between two desktops, you can put a different BMP as the wallpaper on the secondary desktop. It’s at http://www.fatfreesoft.com/ and it’s called Double Desktop. It’s easy, low memory loading, and free to download and keep. There are several …

Reading Mac-formatted media

Subscriber John Mood sent me this: Ever need to read media from an Apple system? Can’t dig those files off the MacIntosh CD you have been trying to look at? Showing NOTHING on a Mac disc under XP? Have no fear, you can download a fully functional limited term demo of MacDrive 6.0 from http://www.mediafour.com/ …