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From the New York Times??????: After a years-long dispute, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child said Thursday that they had reached an agreement to offer Windows on the organization’s computers. Microsoft long resisted joining the ambitious project because its laptops used the Linux operating system, a freely distributed alternative to …
Ed Bott mentioned that Laplink is celebrating their 25th anniversary. Yesterday they were giving away PCmover for free. However, their servers couldn’t handle the traffic as word got around, so they’ve extended it through today. Visit the Laplink web site to register and download the software. I don’t know when or if I’ll use it, …
From the Globe and Mail: Federal regulators have ordered Bell Canada to provide tangible evidence that its broadband networks are congested to justify the company’s Internet “traffic-shaping” policies. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) yesterday laid out the process through which it will tackle the issue of how Internet providers manage the flow of …
Adobe Photoshop (along with Photoshop Elements) have a feature called “actions”. These are similar to macros you might find in a productivity suite. The “actions” let you do several things at once. I recently came across a site that explains nicely what an action is and how to start using them. …have you ever had …
From MSNBC: It’s hard to think about a computer without an external mouse, even though touchpads on laptops – like the one I’m using now – have made it not as essential as it once was. If you’ve been around PCs for more than a few years, you’ve probably gone through your fair share of …
PC World has an interesting article about The 7 Most Annoying Developments in Software: From antipiracy measures to built-in nagging, today’s software often comes with features that drive you nuts. Here are the irritations we’d really like to zap.
PC World has an article about neat things you can do with Google: Every time I turn around, Google’s come up with something new, cool, or innovative. It’s no wonder it has Microsoft on the run.
From the New York Times: Steven J. Sasson, an electrical engineer who invented the first digital camera at Eastman Kodak in the 1970s, remembers well management’s dismay at his feat. “My prototype was big as a toaster, but the technical people loved it,” Mr. Sasson said. “But it was filmless photography, so management’s reaction was, …
From the New York Times: What do you call a surgeon who operates without scalpels, stitching tools or a powerful headlamp to light the patient’s insides? A better doctor, according to a growing number of surgeons who prefer to hand over much of the blood-and-guts portion of their work to medical robots controlled from computer …
In an article about extending battery life, Dennis O’Reilly mentions the RightMark CPU Clock utility he uses. Not only does it show information about your CPU, but it also lets you control several different power settings. RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock) is a small GUI application designed for real-time CPU frequency, throttling and load level …