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From TechRepublic: The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state. The result, says Carl Honore, journalist and author of “In Praise of Slowness,” is …
From PC Magazine: Microsoft Corp. is tightening the noose for those people running illegal or pirated copies of its Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Tablet editions and Windows 2000 software on their systems. Starting Tuesday, it will be mandatory for users of this Windows software to certify that their software is a …
I first heard about this at the Unofficial Google Weblog. If you visit Logogle.com you can create a logo similar to the Google logo.
Microsoft has officially named their next Windows release, previously known by the name Longhorn. The next generation of Windows will be named Vista and should feature a new user interface, built in RSS support and a new document format based on XML. You can view the press release here and view the unveiling as a …
I’ve been trying to install Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition. I’ve had problems. I’m still working through it, but I came across another useful tool. Microsoft Knowledgebase article 29031 explains the use of and how to download the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility. The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility does: • Provide a dialog box where you can …
From InfoWorld: Employees are using the Web more and more for personal reasons and that is setting U.S. companies back $178 billion annually, a cost of $5,000 per employee, said a study released Tuesday by Websense, Inc. The San Diego-based Internet management company reported that 50 percent of the surveyed workers admitted to using the …
From MSNBC: Pop quiz: Which schools produced the most degrees in computer science in 2001? MIT? Carnegie Mellon? Georgia Tech? If you guessed any of these, you’re wrong: try Strayer University and DeVry Institute of Technology. And what kind of student is most likely to take up computer science at Strayer or DeVry? If you …
I’ve previously mentioned the Norton Removal Tool. Well, a couple of weeks ago I uninstalled a copy of Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition from a computer. Everything went fine. I then proceeded to test a competing product. I wasn’t pleased with the product, so today I tried to put SAVCE back on the computer. I couldn’t. …
From TechRepublic: A Pakistani girl has qualified as a Microsoft Certified Professional at the age of 9. Arfa Karim of Multan has officially become the youngest MCP in Pakistan, and one of the youngest in the world. Karim, now 10, met with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates last week–an experience she later described as second only …
In recognition of the anniversary of the first manned moon landing which occured on July 20, 1969, Google has released a new product: Google Moon. Similiar to Google Earth and Google Maps, Google Moon lets you view the surface of the moon and the locations of the six US landings. You can see a great …