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The Google Operating System blog had a posting recently about a freeware disk defragmenting utility I’d never heard of before: Auslogics Disk Defrag is a freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista with a simple interface, that runs much faster than the built-in defragmenter. You can’t defragment more than one partion at a time or set …
From CNet News: Has Apple Computer’s chief executive, Steve Jobs, found a way to connect the PC to the TV? With an enticing invitation proclaiming “It’s Showtime,” Jobs last week touched off speculation about how far Apple will go as it takes its next big step into digital video. On Tuesday, Apple will hold another …
From TechRepublic: Dartmouth Professor Hany Farid already devised software tools to detect when someone has tampered with digital photos. His next challenge: determining whether video or audio files have been retouched. “I thought, ‘This is going to be so much easier,’ but it turns out to be much harder,” Farid said. “In a minute (of) …
Chris pointed out this Boing Boing posting.. If you search Google for the Confidential “do not distribute” you will find all sorts of things that maybe shouldn’t be on the Internet.
It has been a long road, but I hope everyone enjoyed my 4 part series on digital black and white photography. One thing that wasn’t mentioned in my tips though, be sure you take your photographs in colour! Shooting in black and white mode on your camera will eliminate all of the colour information you …
From Mediacaster Magazine: Free Wi-Fi access is now available in the central Toronto downtown core, following the launch of One Zone, the wireless network from Toronto Hydro Telecom. Available in a six-square kilometre area, bounded by Front St to the south, Bloor St to the north, stretching east/west from around Bathurst St to Parliament St, …
From CNN: Many more white children use the Internet than do Hispanic and black students, a reminder that going online is hardly a way of life for everyone. Two of every three white students — 67 percent — use the Internet, but less than half of blacks and Hispanics do, according to federal data released …
From TechRepublic: Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them. Now a scientist says he has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy. Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College in Cambridge, England, said on Tuesday he has conducted experiments that …
From SearchEngineWatch.com: News and history junkies take heart: Google’s new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously available via the search engine. “The goal of this service is to allow people to search and explore how history unfolded,” said Anurag Acharya, Google …
Regular reader Pat sent me a great document of Microsoft Word shortcuts and tips. As I looked into it, I found it was originally referenced on the InformationWeek site in an article called Office Letter: A Cheat Sheet for Word: Office Letter reader Lyn Hancock wrote to share her list of shortcuts for Word. This …