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The Boston Globe has a great article about an offshoot of Polaroid called Zink Imaging that has made a portable, colour thermal printer. Along with the article, there is a great video showing it in action. Zink has the closest connections. As Polaroid was sliding into bankruptcy in 2001, the company was trying to figure …
From CNN: If you can pay for your bills online; why not pay for your sins? Already a repository for too much information from bloggers divulging their every intimate thought, the Web recently extended its reach into territory the church once dominated. Tens of thousands of the guilty among us are visiting confessional booths at …
The March issue of Windows IT Pro magazine has an article called Yet Another 8 Absolutely Cool, Totally Free Utilities where they highlight some free utilities. You can read the first couple of paragraphs for free, but you need to be a subscriber to see it all. However, the free tools mentioned in the article …
PC Magazine has a nice collection of tips (72 of them) for “Safer Computing”: You might wonder if it’s even possible to have a safe computing experience in this day and age, beyond unplugging your broadband connection and never installing any software. Of course it’s possible, but it will take some work on your part. …
A friend and fellow photographer, Scott Simons, recently put on a presentation discussing early morning photography. During that presentation he was asked why use one macro lens over another. It was a good question and one that I will answer here for you today. This is for the most part, specific to people shooting with …
From the National Post: “Internet addiction” and “CrackBerry” are the narcotic-laced phrases we invariably use to explain our growing dependence on laptops and PDAs. Now a Canadian media research company has examined what happens to users in the absence of their virtual communication of choice and coined a term for the modern-day affliction: “disconnect anxiety.” …
Over the last few weeks there have been quite a few sites and newsletters that have linked to a new tool on the Microsoft site called Password Checker: Do you use strong passwords? A strong password should appear to be a random string of characters to an attacker. It should be 14 characters or longer, …
There are a lot of online productivity suites out there these days. Google has probably made the biggest news as they have put together a collection of them (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, etc) after buying several companies. But Google certainly isn’t the only one. I have previous mentioned a basic collection of similar programs …
From CNN: They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island. They are intelligent 20-somethings who seem harmless. But they are hard-core hackers who claim to have gained access to the world’s most sensitive sites, including the Pentagon. In fact, they say they are sometimes paid secretly by the Chinese government — a claim …
A month or so ago Download Squad linked to DVDFab, a program that lets you rip DVDs to your hard drive. To burn or not to burn? That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the absence of your DVD collection on your hard drive, or to take arms against those …