Monthly archives: August, 2006

Filing your Photographs – Keep it Neat – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

I have been active with computers for many years, and much of that I was also active in photography. Organization of my personal space, work space and life are all pretty haphazard, but my photography has always been very organized. I started in photography many years ago, and soon after began developing my own 35mm …

Internet users do fewer household chores: study

From CTC.ca: Heavy Internet users spend less time with their partners and children and are less likely to help with household chores, a new study suggests. Statistics Canada says people who spend more than an hour of personal time a day on the Web tended to stay at home more and showed less interest in …

Study: Women like tech toys more than shoes

From USA Today: Is a plasma TV a girl’s new best friend? An Oxygen Network survey released Tuesday found that more than three out of four women said they’d choose the TV over a diamond solitaire necklace. Women preferred a top-of-the-line cellphone to designer shoes by a similar margin. And a little white iPod narrowly …

Gmaps Pedometer

Gmaps Pedometer is a handy site that lets you map out your router for walking or running. It provides you with overall distances, the distance of the last “leg” and a calorie counter. You can even save the route and let others see it. The site describes it this way: What is this? This is …

PCs dream of electric sheep

From TechRepublic: Scott Draves is tapping the spare processing power in PCs for the sake of art. Draves is the artist and computer programmer behind the 7-year-old “Electric Sheep” project, a free, downloadable application that combines art, interactivity and distributed computing. It’s a bit like the SETI@Home project, which harnesses PCs around the Internet to …

blufr trivia game

Welcome to blufr, a free, addictive trivia game challenging you to identify statements as true or false. Answer below to get to the next bluf! Answers.com has created a trivia game called blufr that is essentially asks you if a statement is true or false. But these certainly aren’t your standard questions. I played for …