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From CNN: Steven Sasson knew right away in December 1975 that his 8-pound, toaster-size contraption, which captured a black-and-white image on a digital cassette tape at a resolution of .01 megapixels, “was a little bit revolutionary.” When anyone asked, the Eastman Kodak Co. engineer ventured that it would become a commercial reality in 15 to …
I recently received an email from Kevin J. Vella, the PR Manager for Uniblue, a global software development company. He passed along information about their WinBackup 2.0 product, “an extremely powerful backup and restore solution that is already proving to be highly popular.” WinBackup 2.0 is not just an improved version. After two years in …
Back in June (PCIN Issue 349) I included a link to DaFont.com, a site that has some excellent free fonts. Reader Mike Davis sent in a list of other good sites for free fonts: Here are some other free font sites for those who were interested: http://www.1001freefonts.com/ http://swank.ca/caffeen/fonts/index.htm http://www.eknp.com/ http://www.fontfreak.com/index2.htm http://www.fonts.com/ http://www.myfonts.com/ http://www.acidfonts.com/ http://www.fontfoundry.com/ http://www.searchfreefonts.com/ …
Google has launched a blog search tool this morning that will present results extracted from blogs around the world. The tool is not exclusive to Blogger which Google owns, but should include all blogs. Try it at http://blogsearch.google.com
From The Minnesota Daily: Students looking for free and cheap — not to mention legal — software have a new option on campus. In June, the Board of Regents approved a three-year, $2.7 million software contract. As a result, students taking at least one credit can buy licenses for commonly used Microsoft products, in some …
SlickDeals.net passed along the fact that Laplink is offering their PCmover software for free until September 15. Studies suggest the average business spends $250 to set up a new PC – but they spend a fraction of that when they use Laplink PCmover. PCmover makes it simple. Just install the PCmover software, click your mouse …
Microsoft does a good job at providing tips and tricks for visitors to their website. The Windows XP portion of their site has an Expert Zone Community with all sorts of great help. They also have other tips that are posted from time to time. Two notable ones are: 5 cool Windows XP tips http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/homeusers/articles/5tips.mspx …
BirthdayAlarm was started in 2001 by Michael and Xochi Birch and Paul Birch (see below) to provide a simple way for people to remember birthdays. The original idea for the website was simple, remind people of birthdays. We received such positive feedback that we began to add additional features to BirthdayAlarm. There are lots of …
From the New York Times: A few minutes before 7 on a recent morning, Greeshma Salin swiveled her chair to face the computer, slipped on her headset and said in faintly accented English, “Hello, Daniela.” Seconds later she heard the response, “Hello, Greeshma.” The two chatted excitedly before Ms. Salin said, “We’ll work on pronouns …
From TechRepublic: Ten years ago, Jon von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsoy were researchers at Norway’s largest telecom when management shut down their project. But the two programmers successfully negotiated the rights to the browsing software they had developed at the company and then struck out on their own. And so it was that Opera Software …