The Secret Cause of Flame Wars

From Wired News: “Don’t work too hard,” wrote a colleague in an e-mail today. Was she sincere or sarcastic? I think I know (sarcastic), but I’m probably wrong. According to recent research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, I’ve only a 50-50 chance of ascertaining the tone of any e-mail message. The …

Finding files in Windows 2000 Pro with the Where.exe utility

From TechRepublic: Everyone has to search for a file now and then, either on a local system or on a shared network. Windows 2000 Pro provides a reasonably good search feature within the user interface, but sometimes it is easier to search from a command console. To help you accomplish these command-line searches, you can …

2 Workers Have Chips Embedded Into Them

From TBO.com: Tiny silicon chips were embedded into two workers who volunteered to help test the tagging technology at a surveillance equipment company, an official said Monday. The Mexico attorney general’s office implanted the so-called RFIDs – for radio frequency identification chips – in some employees in 2004 to restrict access to secure areas. Implanting …

Search Engine Traffic Soars

From PC World: People in the U.S. use the Internet for more everyday research than any other medium, a fact proven by the 55 percent year-on-year surge in online searches in December, according to market researcher Nielsen/NetRatings. And Google remained the most popular place for Americans to search cyberspace in December. The number of online …

Mommy, Help Me Download ‘Farmer in the Dell’ to My MP3 Player

From the New York Times: As digital electronics have invaded Toyland, putting video projectors and cellphones into the hands of 7- year-olds, companies that cater to preschoolers have deliberately sat on the sidelines, determined to hold up the wall between adult technology and children’s play. But the wall is about to come crashing down. At …

The best of the Digital Photography Tip of the Week

Chris is off on vacation this week, so I’ve chosen 5 of his tips that have been very popular. You can read those tips by clicking the links below, or you can view the entire Digital Photography Tips category on the PCIN.net Update blog. Shooting at Night, Part 2 Shooting At Night, Part 1 Curves …

Windows XP Encryption

I recently had someone email me asking for help with the built-in Windows XP encryption options. This lets you encrypt a file so that only you as the logged in user can see it. Another user, including an administrator, can’t read the file. The Encrypted File System (EFS) is not available in Windows XP Home. …

Paragon NTFS for Linux 5.0

Paragon Software Group, a company with more than 10 years of experience on system utilities market, is glad to introduce you our just released Paragon NTFS for Linux 5.0, the new reliable solution for rapid and transparent read/write access to NTFS volumes under Linux like to native file systems. You can learn more about Paragon …

FeedDemon 2.0 Beta

RSS Feed Reader for Windows Simplify the way you read the web! Stop wasting time checking your favorite web sites for updates. Use FeedDemon instead, and make them come to you. FeedDemon 2.0 is currently in beta. You can download the beta version from the Bradbury Software web site.

Beware of Internet trespass

From TechRepublic: Information technology continues to advance at warp speed, and the law struggles to catch up. When new laws have not yet been enacted to address emerging areas of Internet disputes, courts are called upon to try to use and mold ancient legal theories to achieve high-tech resolution. Trespass is one of the ancient …