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From InternetNews: In a wistful moment during his keynote at Macworld this week, Steve Jobs reminded attendees that April 1 will mark the 30th anniversary of the dawn of Apple. “I just wanted to point it out,” said Jobs. “You know, Apple was founded on April Fools day in 1976. We thought that was funny …
From a press release (view the PDF) I received: Paragon Software Group, the European specialist for innovative data security and data management technology, launches Drive Copy 8.0– a software for real-time hard disk copy, personal/ corporate data and applications migration, disk-to-disk backup and basic hard disk partitioning operations. Paragon Drive Copy was created as a …
From CNN: Nikon Corp., which helped popularize the 35mm camera five decades ago, will stop making most of its film cameras to concentrate on digital models. The Japanese company said it wanted to focus on “business categories that continue to demonstrate the strongest growth” as film cameras sales keep shrinking. Nikon will discontinue seven film-camera …
From TBO.com: Andy Steele lives just a few blocks from the campus of Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D., so commuting to class isn’t the problem. But he doesn’t like lectures much, isn’t a morning person, and wants time during the day to restore motorcycles. So Steele, a full-time senior business major, has been …
From PC Magazine: Need to put a PC in a public place? A free Microsoft tool makes it easy to lock down. Schools, libraries, and other organizations often want to make computers available in public places. These can become tempting targets for hackers. Even well-intentioned users can wreak havoc by deleting important files or accidentally …
From MSNBC: Winning a medal at next month’s Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, could be the memory of a lifetime for some 2,500 athletes from around the world. But before a single skate hits ice, thousands of technology specialists will have spent much of the past few years designing, building and testing a computing and …
From USA Today: Teenagers have some seemingly high expectations about what technology might bring over the next decade, according to a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study. For example, 33% of teens predicted that gasoline-powered cars will go the way of the horse and buggy by 2015. Just 16% of adults agreed. Meanwhile, 22% of …
As winter moves forward and the days continue to grow colder, outdoor photography is more and more likely to include snow. This will pose a problem for most cameras, either digital or film based. A blanket of snow will play havoc with the metering system in your camera. Your camera will measure the brightness values …
The latest issue of Scot’s Newsletter tells of his new FIOS broadband connection (15mbps!). Near the end of the article he mentions optimizing his network settings for his connection. I haven’t done anything like that since I was on dial-up. I went to the Speakeasy Speed Test (which Scot recommends in his article) and found …
Further to my discussion of my Google Adsense problems, I researched some of the alternatives that Shawn suggested. I wasn’t comfortable with any of them, other than Yahoo! Publisher Network. I applied, and have just now received my notification that I’ve been accepted. Unfortunately, the program is only open to US-based publishers: Please note that …