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Every year Google puts together information on what searches were popular during the year. The zeitgeist this year is done with a beautiful flash presentation. They show on a map of the world where the event the search pertained to happened. They also show the top image and news story from that month. Check it …
I found this link on the Google Blogoscoped blog: There are a lot of great freeware programs out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This is my personal selection of the best of the best. I’ve used every single product in this list and find each to be a …
If you have a Pocket PC/Palm device, then you certainly know about Handango. “The best of everything for smartphones and handhelds! Handango offers you selection of more than 75,000 downloads for all types of smartphones and handhelds. From business and personal productivity software to travel apps and games, we have the best mobile downloads to …
From the Rays of Light blog: Last year long about November, Microsoft purchased a small Hong Kong-based software firm named Creature House. One of their principal products was a vector graphics editing program called Expressions 3. Primarily a Mac product, they also had a Windows version; both versions received very positive reviews. Microsoft’s disposition of …
Subscriber and co-worker Pat Clary sent me along a link to this Small Business Pipeline story: Microsoft Office is both popular and widely distributed, which means that there are a lot of resources available for Office users. This week, instead of focusing on one feature, I’m going to point you toward a few small but …
It appears the GMail beta is expanding again. Logging into my account this morning, I now have an additional 10 Gmail invites to pass around. If you would like one I will be giving six of them away. Send me a tip (chris at pcin.net) that we can use on of our upcoming newsletters.
I recently had a print made from my digital camera. The lab incorrectly processed the print larger than I wanted, and I was afraid the image would have lost quality. If I had this worksheet by craigfroehle.com, I would have known the print would still look great (which it did). The Digital Photo Printing Worksheet …
I’ve seen this mentioned around (KC’s blog mainly, where she links to others who did, who in turn link to many others). “Clear the address bar in your browser, type in every letter of the alphabet, and list out what is the first URL on the history list.” Here’s a sampling of mine: A – …
Michael Davis emailed me recently that The Naked PC newsletter had done a review of Junk-Out. I’ve heard of this software before. There was a Microsot MVP (I can’t remember who it was) who recommended it. Yet another product we may review at some point.
Well, after 7 months and over 1369 messages (about 35 MB worth) I got my first GMail Spam. They don’t even look like they were actually addressed to me. Nowhere in the header did I see my email address. Chris said he’s also received some spam. Hopefully it doesn’t become an epidemic like Hotmail.