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From CNet News: A Pennsylvania school principal has filed a lawsuit against four former students, claiming they falsely portrayed him as a pot smoker, beer guzzler and pornography lover and sullied his reputation through mock MySpace profiles. Eric Trosch was principal of Hickory High School in Hermitage, Penn., at the time the short-lived profiles went …
From BusinessWeek: The World Wide Web makes Tom Pitoniak’s job harder. As an associate editor at Merriam-Webster, publisher of dictionaries and other reference books, Pitoniak must distinguish between words that legitimately should be in the dictionary and all that other matter sloshing around the English language: slang, industry jargon, onomatopoeic fillers, brand names, buzzwords, abbreviations, …
The latest issue of Windows Secrets newsletter has a nice tip about a free virtual CD-ROM drive: I recently rediscovered a nifty free tool from Microsoft. You may find it useful, too. It’s the Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel… It lets you mount an ISO file of a CD in one step, without having to …
If you are looking for a free classified service in your area, try Kijiji: Kijiji means “village” in Swahili. Kijiji helps you connect with your community. It’s free and easy to use. You can find everything you need from housing to furniture, from jobs to new friends and more. You can charge for things, or …
David Kennedy has a tip on his blog about Spring cleaning for photographers: Spring cleaning applies to photographers too. Every year, it is good to look at your equipment and see if you need everything on your shelf. Are you really going to use that old film camera again? Are you going to re-read that …
From CNNMoney: Tim Spalding was 9 years-old when he had the idea of using his first computer–an Apple II–to make lists of the books he owned, like the Adventures of Tintin series and Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective. Flash-forward to 2007. Spalding is now a programmer, and he’s still keeping lists, but on a far grander …
From the Globe and Mail: First came Google. Then came MySpace, Facebook and Second Life — all created by hip young techies from California. But the biggest new Internet innovation comes from an unlikely place: a Toronto-based company best known for cheesy giftware and stuffed toys. If you have a kid in elementary school, chances …
From TechRepublic: Microsoft has come under attack for the way it advertises the Vista operating system. A lawsuit, filed in Seattle, alleges that the company advertised systems as “Vista capable,” when in fact the systems were not able to run Vista properly. The suit alleges that the marketing around Vista was designed to deliberately mislead …
The April 2007 TechNet Magazine highlights a tool called AutoRuns for Windows. This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones …
I am just finishing up my review of Adobe Lightroom. So far I am very impressed with Adobe’s new offering with only a few issues. This week’s tip is for Lightroom users. I have talked in the past about how important proper white balance is in your photographs. If your camera has the ability to …