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If you have ever deleted an important photo on your digital camera accidentally, you know what a gut wrenching feeling that could be, or even worse, accidentally formatted your memory card. We place a lot of faith in our technology and expect that our cameras will properly store our precious memories and let us retrieve …
There are probably lots of things that annoy you about computers. One of the things that I’ve run into more than probably anything else is problems with printers. There are so many printers that are supposed to be supported on a dozen different operating systems, connected in a dozen different ways, that there are bound …
From CNN: When you’re not inclined to give your product away for free, make your customers believe they’re getting something for nothing. That’s the thinking behind some of the offerings music fans may see this year as the recording industry scrambles to offset losses from plunging CD sales and find new sources of revenue when …
From Fortune magazine (via CNN Money): Years before Melinda French met and married Bill Gates, she had a love affair – with an Apple computer. ¶ She was growing up in Dallas in a hard-working middle-class family. Ray French, Melinda’s dad, stretched their budget to pay for all four children to go to college. An …
From BusinessWeek: With nearly 3,000 technology companies touting their wares at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from Jan. 7 to 10, it’s a challenge to stand out from the crowd—even for an industry giant like Microsoft. So the software behemoth is staging a “fashion show” in which three top style mavens, …
My wife, probably like most people who cook, has a dozen recipe books and loose paper in notebooks with hand-written recipes. It’s often hard to find a specific recipe. I volunteered to put together a new binder for her. I’m typing up the hand-written recipes, scanning recipes from books, and more. As a result of …
I’m a few days late on this one, but Download Squad had a posting with links to several online calendar resources: With 2008 fast approaching, if you’re needing a printed calendar in time for the new year, your opportunities to grab one are fast running out. Thankfully CreativeTechs have posted three rather nifty calendars and …
From ABC News: From on-demand video services that were overly demanding, to underwhelming operating-system updates, 2007 was full of disappointments. We surveyed the landscape and polled some old friends to come up with the 15 products, companies, and industries that left the most sour taste in our mouths. From last to first, here’s our list …
I originally heard about this on the Kim Komando radio show in early December. Price Protectr is a service that monitors prices on items that you’ve purchased to help you get the difference back from the store you purchased it at: There are lots of stores out there that offer price protection policies — when …