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From MSNBC: I don’t have kids. But I’m still enough of one inside that I get a certain amount of glee from seeing what’s out there for today’s generation. That, and I tend to spoil my friends’ kids silly, but so far it’s been real young kid/toddler stuff. I’m ready to step it up. When …
PC Magazine has a huge collection of tips: Crafted by our analysts and editors and tested in PC Labs, our vast list of tips starts with the fundamentals of computing and then moves on to multimedia, mobility, business, and online solutions for maximizing your digital life.
From the New York Times: Steve Jobs, Apple’s chief executive and field general, has Napoleonic dreams of global conquest for his 10-month-old wonder gadget, the iPhone. So it may be fitting that he’s encountering his most serious resistance in a city called Waterloo. That is where, 70 miles west of Toronto in Ontario, 19 nondescript, …
I’ve linked to various Windows Secrets newsletter items in the past. It is an excellent newsletter and I highly recommend it. The issue I received today has a link to nine freeware apps that have been regularly centred out/chosen in “best of” lists. The “best freeware” lists published by Web sites and magazines frequently trumpet …
From the New York Times: Who says cellphones are good only for talking? Today they are bringing together two unlikely brand names: Nokia and Spike Lee. Mr. Lee, the director, is teaming up with Nokia, the cellphone maker, to direct a short film comprising YouTube-style videos created by teenagers and adults using their mobile phones.
A couple of months ago Download Squad highlighted the program FontEXPRO: Are you constantly struggling to remember the difference between Arial, Times New Roman and Palatino Linotype? Sure, you could just keep changing fonts from the drop-down menus in your word processor, or you could use FontEXPRO to preview all the fonts stored on your …
From CNet News: For years, Microsoft has maintained that the PC is the center of the digital home and office. But Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Tuesday that it’s time for the company to acknowledge a new reality. “Over the past 10 years, the PC era has given way to an era in which …
A couple of months ago Kim Komando mentioned a program called GreenPrint which helps you eliminate those pages with 2 lines on the bottom which waste paper: Our patent-pending print preview, GreenView, displays all pages and highlights wasteful pages in red. With a click you can: print only what you want, remove images or text, …
Windows Vista has all sorts of new applets that help you manage your computer. A while ago the Windows Secrets newsletter explained how you could do some of this in Windows XP. One of these utilities was XP Syspad: XP SysPad is a Windows system monitoring utility that allows easy access to Windows system information …
From CNN: Yahoo Inc.’s first-quarter performance sets the scene for a bitter battle over Microsoft Corp.’s takeover bid. By delivering earnings and revenue Tuesday that surpassed analysts’ estimates, Yahoo added credence to its board’s contention that the Sunnyvale-based company is poised for a dramatic turnaround that justifies a higher sales price than Microsoft’s initial bid …