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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: …
From Network Computer (TechWeb): With Vista at least seven months away, we’ll all be using Windows XP for some time to come. TechWeb proudly presents our all-time favorite Win XP hacks, tips, tricks, and fixes. Check it out!
I virtually never use my Yahoo! account for anything. However, yesterday I logged in for the first time in months and was prompted to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. Wow! It’s very impressive. It’s much better looking then the Windows Live Mail Beta, and seems to have more features. If you have a Yahoo! …
Last week I talked about how to shoot a sunrise or sunset. This week, I will get into something a little more technical, a brief discussion about digital image sensor size. Many people coming from a film background with an SLR are already familiar with the issue of sensor size. Most digital SLR’s have a …
Creating a dramatic sunrise or sunset photograph is not that difficult, though there are a few steps to take to be sure it is done well. Ultimately, there is little difference between a sunrise and a sunset photo. However, you may have better luck with sunrise photos because there are fewer people up at the …
I get the Microsoft TechNet magazine, and the latest issue had a good article on Deconstructing Common Security Myths: In our book Protect Your Windows Network, we wrote about “security myths”—things that many people believe are true about security, but which really are not… Our version of these myths is, of course, just our opinion. …
Cobian Backup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer or other computer in your network. FTP backup is also supported in both directions (download and upload). It’s that last part that I think is interesting. …
Many photographers that I know are fair weather photographers, that is, they only shoot if the weather is nice. Unfortunately, they also miss a lot of great photographic opportunities. Macro Photography in the Rain This shot of Dutchman’s Breaches was taken this past weekend, in the rain. It was one of only six I was …
As you may be aware, one of the ways that Google determines where to rank a page for a particular search term is by its PageRank. This essentially rates the quality of a page in the Google index. It does this in a number of ways, one of which is the number of links to …
Michael Otey of Windows IT Pro magazine has put together a list of his 10 favourite little-known tools in Office 2003: Microsoft Office is without a doubt the killer app of the Windows era and must be the most pervasive software application of all time. Almost everyone uses it, either at work or at home. …