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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
There have been quite a bit of news recently about the Windows Vista upgrade DVD not really needing anything to upgrade from. You can do a clean install of Vista without putting in the product key, and then upgrade that installation. That talk has led to some talk about doing a clean install of XP, …
In what has become a yearly tradition (see 2006 and 2007 here), PC World has compiled a list of 101 Fantastic Freebies: Free. It’s the magic word for an ever-expanding wealth of downloadable software and online services. Free doesn’t necessarily mean good, however, and hunting for freebies can mean sifting through a lot of junk. …