The Waterford Press has a lot of activities you can print out for the kids to do. The site isn’t very fancy, but there are probably over 100 PDFs that you can print that have word searches, name scrambles, quizzes, and more.
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From ITBusiness.ca:
Even the most culturally sensitive among us has to acknowledge that Japanese commercials are… well, strange. First of all, most Japanese commercial actors hail from the Randy “Macho Man” Savage school of advertising whereby they look directly into the camera and shout the product name as loudly and excitedly as they can.
From PC World:
After a good deal of–ahem–lively discussion, the editors at PCWorld have completed this year’s list of the 100 best technology products available today. How did we do it? After nominating hundreds of devices, apps, sites, and services we knew to be good, we rated each one on its design, functionality, performance, and impact; the ones garnering the highest total scores made our list. Note that we chose not to rate products specifically on their price or value, focusing instead on their overall quality. After the scoring was over and the dust had cleared, we had a list that served, among other things, to remind us of what an exciting time in tech this truly is, with game-changing product development happening on many fronts.
PC World has a nice summary of celebrity endorsements of computer products from the 1980s:
When personal computers entered the mainstream in the 1980s, the American public was understandably uneasy. Most people didn’t know much about using a PC, or how to choose a good one. Where could they turn for advice? Marketers hoped they would turn to on-screen role models, heroes such as Alan Alda, Roger Moore, and William Shatner. Understandable, perhaps. But really, would you buy a computer on the advice of Dom DeLuise or wrestler “King Kong” Bundy?
A co-worker sent me a link to a part of the Princton web site called UChannel:
The UChannel (also known as the University Channel) makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public.
You can download all sorts of talks, seminars, symposiums, etc.
PC World has an interesting article about The 7 Most Annoying Developments in Software:
From antipiracy measures to built-in nagging, today’s software often comes with features that drive you nuts. Here are the irritations we’d really like to zap.
PC Magazine has a huge collection of tips:
Crafted by our analysts and editors and tested in PC Labs, our vast list of tips starts with the fundamentals of computing and then moves on to multimedia, mobility, business, and online solutions for maximizing your digital life.
I’ve linked to various Windows Secrets newsletter items in the past. It is an excellent newsletter and I highly recommend it. The issue I received today has a link to nine freeware apps that have been regularly centred out/chosen in “best of” lists.
The “best freeware” lists published by Web sites and magazines frequently trumpet dozens of programs, but the results reflect the subjective opinions of just one or two testers.
To find the best of the best, I compared roundups of “great” freeware conducted recently by four reputable publications to find the programs that were endorsed by at least three of the reviews.
Out of the lists he looked at, only 9 programs were on 3 of the lists, and only 1 was on all 4. It’s a good read with links to each of the 9 programs.
I wasn’t sure if this was more a news item or a tip, but I’ll consider it a tip (actually, a recommended web site). PC World recently had an article comparing technology from 10 years ago with today.
Ever wax nostalgic about your first PC or cell phone? It’s easy to forgive your Tandy desktop or your Motorola portable for their limitations–after all, they were technological infants.
What we often forget, though, is how $%#@! expensive that crude neolithic junk was! So join us on a trip two decades back in technology’s history–and we bet that the next time you’re charged $895 for a small square of plastic and transistors, you’ll smile and say, “Wow, what a bargain!”
The article compares personal computers and components. It’s quite interesting!
I was reading an article in the paper the other day about the Webby Awards, and one of the highlighted sites was geoGreeting. This is a site that let’s you write a message using pictures of buildings that look like letters (the PCIN.net image above for example). The creator of the site describes it in this way:
While working on a different Google Maps project, I noticed that a number of buildings looked like letters of the alphabet when viewed from above. This is the point where I should have just said ‘hmmm, good observation’ and gone on with my life. But I didn’t and that’s why this website is here.
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