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From CNN: For a video game, Pac-Man is getting downright old. The ghost-wary hero with an insatiable appetite for dots turns 25 this month. From the early 1980s “Pac-Mania” to today’s endless sequels and rip-offs, the original master of maze management remains a bright yellow circle on the cultural radar. But there was more to …
The Office Tips and Hints blog has a great post about how to use a macro in Word to create a list of all the files in a certain folder: Here is a macro that will produce a list of all the files in a selected folder. The folder name for the listed files The …
Google Blogoscoped linked to the Clinical Cases blog: We posted before that patients trust Google almost as much as their physician, now let’s take a look at how doctors themselves use Google. Not surprisingly, they too, find the search giant results very useful. Kevin MD and California Medicine Man have nice summaries on Google use …
Another great tip from Ed Bott’s blog: You say you hate to take your hands off the keyboard to click the mouse? Then you’ll love this master list of keyboard shortcuts covering a long, long list of Microsoft products, including Internet Explorer 6 and nearly every program in the Office 2000, Office XP, and Office …
From ResearchBuzz: Esus has announced the release of Acronyma, a search engine with an index of over 450,000 acronyms and abbreviations. It’s available at http://www.acronyma.com/ . You may search in several different languages, and you may search by word or by acronym. I searched for the acronym Yahoo and got one result (Yet Another Hierarchical …
From the MSN Search’s WebLog: You asked for it, we told you it was coming and now it’s here! Happy to let you know Tabs are now available as part of the MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search. Why are tabs so great? Well here is a personal example: I am addicted to online …
I saw this in the latest issue of LangaList. A person who goes by the screen name BoldFortune has posted a very lengthy message to a forum that he runs that details steps on how to reduce the size of Windows XP. He claims it took him 4 years to gather this all together. Check …
From InternetNews.com: Not to be outdone in the search features race, MSN quietly turned on a new version of Start.com, a different take on the personalized search home page. The default Start.com page contains a search bar at the top, with weather, stock quotes and a few RSS (define) feeds. Users can select from a …
From USA Today: The first one-time-use video camera goes on sale this week at CVS drugstores in the Northeast. The makers of the $29.95 camera and CVS hope the device will do for video what one-time-use cameras did for film sales: dramatically increase the market. “The one-time-use camera revolutionized the film market,” says Grant Pill, …
From MSNBC: Even Bob Woodward doesn’t trust the Internet. Last week, after Vanity Fair surprised everyone last week by disclosing the identity of Deep Throat, The Washington Post published a lengthy, detailed retrospective by Woodward on W. Mark Felt, the FBI agent who served as his secret informant during Watergate. Woodward had the story essentially …