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From CNet: Once Britons wanting to vent their political spleen either had to write to the newspaper or take their soapbox to Speakers Corner in London’s Hyde Park for a rant. Now they can blog. The campaign for the May 5 election has witnessed an explosion of blogs from candidates to journalists and political snipers …
I can’t believe I haven’t recommended this site before… This is your jumping off point to a number of interesting offerings being provided for you by a few folks associated with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program. Plan to check this page every so often as new subwebs are bound to show up from …
It used to be that everyone who had a Gmail account would have half a dozen Gmail invites to pass along to others. Remember, Gmail is still in beta, and so you need to be invited in order to get an account. Then a couple of months ago they upped the number of invites to …
Kind of a weird idea for a site (and an even weirder domain name), but for some reason you may want to create a tombstone using the Tombstone Generator. Most people would do this for “fun”, but I suppose you could use it for real if you wanted to test out something for a departed …
From Yahoo! News: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is now offering customized music CDs for its online customers. The world’s largest retailer launched the new service Tuesday. Like other companies, the Bentonville-based Wal-Mart already offers customers music they can download at their home computers for a fee. Customers with the proper technology can burn those songs to …
From MSNBC: A federal magistrate has ruled that two North Carolina universities do not have to reveal the identities of two students accused of sharing copyrighted music on the Internet. The music industry trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America, filed subpoenas in November 2003 asking for help identifying a North Carolina State University …
Subscriber John Mood sent me this: I have been using Audacity for a few months. It is a very excellent audio editor! Coupled with Total Recorder, it’s a killer combination. Audacity is free, and Total Recorder is very inexpensive to license. I found both quite on purpose, having an ancient sound file that needed cleaning …
I recently posted about the amazing Autostitch software that is available for free. Well, here is another one. The Panorama Factory is a commercial product that also has an earlier freeware version. I haven’t tried it myself, but you can read about it and download it at http://www.panoramafactory.com/download.html#freeware
From CNet: In a move that could rankle privacy advocates, Microsoft said Monday that it is adding the PC equivalent of a flight data recorder to the next version of Windows, in an effort to better understand and prevent computer crashes. The tool will build on the existing Watson error-reporting tool in Windows but will …
Follow-up to Intel posts $10K reward for Moore’s Law mag From TechRepublic: In a philosophical victory for pack rats everywhere, an Englishman gets top dollar for a magazine he’s been storing under his floorboards. The chip giant, which had been searching high and low for a 1965 copy of Electronics Magazine that featured Intel co-founder …