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Their slogan pretty much says it all: All the knowledge you need The Infoplease site has an excyclopedia, almanac, atlas, biographis, dictionary, thesaurus, and many other reference materials. The site looks pretty neat. Check it out at http://www.infoplease.com/
WorldStart sells various software titles, but they also have an excellent tips section of their site. There are currently 1277 “Regular Tips” and 543 “Coolsites” listed. The main tips page randomly chooses a tip to show. The tips are also divided into categories. There is a listing of the most recent tips, along with the …
PCIN reader Jim Kniskern sent the following email to us with some very good information about photo printing in response to our tip feature in our PCIN Update issue 360. Feel free to leave any comments on what he has to say. Chris: On reading today’s item on having commercial prints made in preference to …
From IT World Canada: Something’s cooking in a forgotten corner of the province of Zheijiang, China — and it’s the perfect recipe for a health and environmental disaster. Ingredients of this toxic swill include assorted electronic circuit boards simmered in pure nitric and hydrochloric acids. For a meagre $1.50 a day, labourers in the province’s …
From Wired News: When it comes to the profit potential of blogs, Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, calls himself a skeptic. It’s a surprisingly pessimistic perspective coming from the Brit who has launched a network of 13 theme blogs — including Fleshbot (porn), Gawker and Defamer (gossip), Gizmodo (gadgets) and Wonkette (politics). His most …
From the E-Commerce News: Fewer of the remaining Americans not hooked up to the Internet are getting online, and fewer existing dial-up users are spending enough time on the Web to want to move up to broadband access, reports the Pew Internet Project in its latest study on U.S. broadband growth. Pew’s May 2005 survey …
From the New York Times (via International Herald Tribune): When David Sarokin finishes his day job as an environmental scientist in Washington, he heads home to a second batch of questions. He is one of several hundred humans who work for Google, answering questions from users who are not satisfied with their results from the …
From CNet News: In the latest round of the search-index size contest, Google unveiled an updated index it said is more than three times larger than that of any of its search engine competitors. “We’re celebrating our seventh birthday…We had a pretty strong year,” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a phone interview with …
One of the most useful utilities I have reviewed is Password Agent by Moon Software. It can save your passwords, auto-fill login forms, and generate passwords for you if you wish. They just recently released a minor update to the software: This update addresses bugs that were discovered after introduction of the previous release. As …
Adobe announced today they are releasing an update to both Photoshop Element and Premiere Elements. Photoshop Elements 4.0 and Premiere Elements 2.0 will be available as stand alone products or as a bundle. The press release is below. Link to Premiere Elements 2.0 press release Link to Photoshop Elements 4.0 press release Adobe Introduces Photoshop …