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It appears the GMail beta is expanding again. Logging into my account this morning, I now have an additional 10 Gmail invites to pass around. If you would like one I will be giving six of them away. Send me a tip (chris at pcin.net) that we can use on of our upcoming newsletters.
A while back, we mentioned a clip about a stop action version of Spiderman 2 made entirely out of Lego. There is a version of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, the extended version, done in stop motion Lego as well. The quality is not nearly as good, though it is still enjoyable to watch, especially the …
From NYT: The Symantec Corporation, a leader in security software and one of Silicon Valley’s oldest companies, announced early Thursday that it would acquire Veritas Software, a maker of data storage programs, to create the world’s fourth-largest software company. The all-stock transaction was valued at $13.5 billion. The deal, which is expected to close in …
From Tech Republic: Internet users may soon be required to pay an additional annual fee for each domain name they own, thanks to a virtually unnoticed requirement that will begin to take effect next year. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international organization that oversees domain names, is moving forward with …
I recently had a print made from my digital camera. The lab incorrectly processed the print larger than I wanted, and I was afraid the image would have lost quality. If I had this worksheet by craigfroehle.com, I would have known the print would still look great (which it did). The Digital Photo Printing Worksheet …
From Vnunet.com: A new worm with a Christmas message has been detected as it began spreading around the world this afternoon. At work we use Microsoft Exchange 5.5. We have set up the system to notify our administrator mailbox whenever there are delivery errors. We always know when there is a new virus out there, …
I’ve seen this mentioned around (KC’s blog mainly, where she links to others who did, who in turn link to many others). “Clear the address bar in your browser, type in every letter of the alphabet, and list out what is the first URL on the history list.” Here’s a sampling of mine: A – …
http://www.infoworld.com/columnists/robert.html I get many trade publications. I skim quickly through most of them, but one column that I always read is Robert X. Cringely’s Notes from the Field. Apparently the name is a pseudonym for each successive person who writes this column. Whomever is writing the columns now, I don’t know, but the columns are …
Always thinking of new ways to search, Google has a new beta feature out. It’s a twist on autocomplete. As you enter your search terms in the Google Search box, Google will automatically suggest possible search terms for you and show the number of results in that search.
Here is some Christmas fun… http://www.origami-club.com/xmas/ Click on any of the 16 designs On the next page, the orange button brings up instructions on how to make it. It is in Japanese, but you should be able to follow the diagrams on how to fold. The purple button brings up an animation of how to …