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This is from the latest TechRepublic Windows XP Tips newsletter: Need a change of scenery? No need to pay Microsoft when you want a new desktop theme–now you can escape to virtual versions of Egypt, Québec and New Zealand for free. Windows XP columnist Greg Shultz leads the tour. I’m not really into themes, but …
From the Toronto Star: Patients surfing obsessively for answers can fall prey to `cyberchondria’ — health anxiety made worse by a deluge of information When 37-year-old Toronto comedian Gerry Dee had a series of headaches, he decided to consult his family doctor. Some blood tests were ordered, and Dee didn’t think much about it until …
From the New York Times: Back in the Stone Age of home networking, anyone who wanted to play on a computer not hooked directly into an Internet connection had to snake phone lines or Ethernet wires across floors and up staircases. People talked about a promising idea: using the electrical wiring already in the house …
You may be familiar with Woody Leonard. He is a well-known computer book author and Microsoft antagonist. He writes a column for the fabulous Windows Secrets newsletter. In the latest issue of the newsletter, he referred to the Microsoft Patch Reliablity Ratings that he runs on his web site. His site explains it this way: …