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I read about this in the Unofficial Microsoft Office Stuff blog: What is original fifties clipart? Most communities in the fifties had small town print shops that doubled as printers of local news and advertising papers. These printers could not afford graphic artists so they used stock clipart supplied by large companies who distributed common …
From the New York Times: Everywhere you look, the electronics industry seems to be playing its own mutant variations of limbo. But the question isn’t “How low can you go?” At Dell, it’s “How cheap can you go?” At Apple, it’s “How cool can you go?” And at Microsoft’s Windows division, it’s “How slow can …
Amazing stuff from the The Unofficial Google Weblog: I find myself browsing through the Google Video blog tonight as a last-ditch avoidance of sleep. (I hit Starbucks at 7pm; a lethal REM-killing tactic.) I can do without the Hilary Duff video of which Google seems to be proud. And all those cooking clips? Please—enough. But …
From MSNBC: In a deal aimed at reducing illegal Internet traffic in pirated films, Hollywood reached an agreement Tuesday with the creator of the popular file-sharing software BitTorrent. The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen to prevent his Web site, bittorrent.com, from locating pirated versions of popular movies, effectively frustrating people who search for …
From TechRepublic: Ever since Edward R. Murrow and Ed Sullivan were doing their thing in black and white, the living room television has been the centerpiece of home entertainment. Then, somewhere along the way, a lot of folks in the high-tech industry got it into their heads that families should gather around the PC to …
Last week I discussed flash use in digital photography. This week I will discuss some of the many ways you can use your digital photographs this coming Christmas. The photographs you make may be printed, put in an album and emailed to friends. But what else can you do with them. With Christmas coming up, …
As the world becomes one big marketplace, it becomes increasingly more important to understand things as simple as time zones and business hours around the world. One of the first reviews I ever did was for a product called ActiveEarth by Logos Systems Research. They have since moved on to other software, but one of …
From the New York Times: “So you have these four basic types that occupy the environment: the Achiever, the Explorer, the Socializer and the Killer.” Nick Fortugno, the 30-year-old teacher, turned away from the whiteboard and faced the 14 undergraduate and master’s-level students in his Thursday seminar. “Killers act like predators, and like any ecosystem, …
I’ve been doing some cleaning on my system, and I’ve been looking for files that are over a certain size. I kept having ZIP files appearing, along with the files that are inside them. Windows XP has some native ability to see inside ZIP files. But when you are searching, having a ZIP file along …
TELUS is a major cellular provider in Canada. Their marketing has been very creative by using very colourful (digitally coloured) animals in their ads. There have been chameleons, rabbits, frogs, and more. If you like this sort of things, then visit their “cool stuff” web site. You can download a screensaver that has all the …