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From the New York Times: Prices of printers have dropped up to 30 percent in the last few months thanks to a savage price war. Is this then the time to buy a photo printer for your home? After all, for about $200 you can get the Hewlett-Packard Photosmart 8250 that in just 14 seconds …
From CNet News: Jerry Swerdlick runs a 15-employee company that resells computers and devices that aid people with visual, hearing, learning and other physical disabilities. Business is really booming these days, Swerdlick said, as more and more manufacturers are building so-called assistive technology gadgets to address a wide range of special needs groups. And while …
From InsideMicrosoft Blog: Microsoft has released an update to MSConfig, also known as the System Configuration Utility (one of the most useful utilities for Windows power users) that adds a “Tools” tab to the program. This tab links to a lot of the other useful utilities on the system, making it a one stop shop …
From InfoWorld: I was recently helping my daughter locate French-English translations on the Internet, and we couldn’t find the information we needed through nearly a half-dozen online versions of widely used dictionaries. Where we ultimately found the translations: Google, or more specifically, Google Language Tools. Prior to this experience, I didn’t even know this service …
Last week I discussed framing your image for printing by allowing enough room in the viewfinder to allow you to print a variety of print sizes. This week I will talk about how to crop our image to obtain the highest quality print. If you remember a few weeks back I talked about camera resolution. …
From CNN: Major labels Sony BMG and EMI are releasing more and more new CDs that block fans from dragging their tunes to iPods. Now, in the most bizarre turn yet in the record industry’s piracy struggles, stars Dave Matthews Band, Foo Fighters and Switchfoot — and even Sony BMG, when the label gets complaints …
From TechRepublic: Dell, the low-cost king, may be trying to fatten up its margins by going after the top end of the PC market. The Round Rock, Texas-based company on Wednesday unveiled its XPS brand, a luxury line of computers that will compete head-on with high-end PC makers like Alienware and even Apple Computer. Some …
Ed Bott blogs about TweakHound: The Web is littered with Windows tips and tweaks, may of dubious quality and accuracy. Eric Vaughan’s TweakHound is one of the few sites that actually tests and rejects the bogus tweaks. Check it out at http://www.tweakhound.com/
From USA Today: Don’t touch that mouse. Online news and entertainment video is booming, says market tracker Forrester Research, with video traffic doubling every six to eight months on average at websites that offer sight, sound and motion. America Online next month introduces a celebrity journalism series that will offer video-on-demand stories about Paris Hilton, …
From PC Magazine: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s plan to deliver low-cost laptop computers to children in developing nations and impoverished American students is moving forward, according to Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and co-founder of the school’s Media Lab. Speaking at M.I.T.’s ongoing Emerging Technologies Conference, Negroponte confirmed that five countries—Brazil, China, Egypt, South Africa and …