New, tips, and more
From TechRepublic: Computer users consistently use very simplistic logic when creating passwords. For example, many of us choose meaningful words, personal dates, or a word commonly found in the dictionary because it makes the password easy to remember. These common practices cause us to sacrifice the security that passwords are intended to provide. If you’re …
Image editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Gimp and Microsoft Digital Image Suite offer a wide range of tools that can be used to create beautiful photographs, many of those tools and the effects they crete originated in the world of film photography. One such tool effect is the Orton Effect. The …
Do you use batch files at all to copy files from one place to another? If so, you know that you can use copy, xcopy, xcopy32, and other commands to do this. In the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools there was also a utility called Robocopy. The latest edition of TechNet Magazine talks about …
Microsoft has quite a few products that they are beta testing now, or have just recently come out of beta. I came across one that I don’t remember hearing about before (I must have missed it). Microsoft Expression isn’t a single product, but a suite of products that let’s you work with graphics, create web …
As I have mentioned several times before, I have been a member of my local camera club for about 8 years. Camera clubs typically look for technically perfect shots with absolutely sharp, critical focus. However, when you start to look around at fine art photography, you will find that those same attributes aren’t necessarily as …
Regular reader Shawn tipped me off to this… By Anne Morris, Total Telecom 30 August 2006 New free browser promises to keep your Internet search habits secret. A new free Web browser has been launched that claims it will enable people to surf the Internet without fear that their information and search habits will be …
A while ago I received this email from a regular visitor: Question which should be of concern to many of your readers. As you know, Microsoft dumped support on w98 and others…which then caused ZoneAlarm to dump their support. Therefore, which free (preferable) firewall do you guys recommend for w98? Any thoughts?
RSS or blog feeds are becoming increasingly popular. Almost all of the major online email providers also have online feed readers. However, if you already use an email client (like Outlook Express), then you may not want to install more software in order to read the feeds. There are several services that will send the …
I’ve reviewed several Software602 software packages in the past, but nothing recently. They keep churning out new updates, and they have released a new version of Print2PDF: Print2PDF 6.0 was introduced on September 14, 2006. This new version features a completely redesigned conversion engine for increased performance, Microsoft Office 2007 file support, AutoCAD DWF file …
I received an email this week from Uniblue about their recent release of SpeedUpMyPC v3.0: You might want to tell your audience about the release of SpeedUpMyPC v3.0 which dramatically increases system efficiency and boosts launch applications. Version 3.0 is easy to use with single-click navigation and has several new clean-up features. You can take …