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With Halloween coming along soon, you may be looking for some “scary” web sites. A fun one to check it is Hershey’s TrickorTreats.com. There are all sorts of activities, crafts, pumpkin stencils, and more that you can download.
As mentioned in the past, I am President of the Niagara Falls Camera Club. As part of our move this year to digital competitions using projected images, I recently put on a program at the club covering some basic digital editing using Adobe Photoshop Elements 5. In my program I covered topics including red eye …
Back in the day, Windows came with a file manager that seemed to have more features than the current Windows Explorer. You can view 2 different drives or folders at a time, making it very easy to copy files between locations. There are many 3rd party file managers out there, and one I heard of …
From the CBS Early Show: A recent study says that the average woman owns five electronic gadgets. So, ladies, what’s your tech style? That’s the question asked by AOL’s Consumer Advisor, Regina Lewis, who thinks there are three distinct tech personalities she sees among women. She visited the Saturday Early Show to explain the differences …
From CNN: If your hipbone is connected to your BlackBerry or your thighbone is connected to your cell phone, those vibrations you’re feeling in the car, in your pajamas, in the shower, may be coming from your headbone. Many mobile phone addicts and BlackBerry junkies report feeling vibrations when there are none, or feeling as …
From the Houston Chronicle: A silent college classroom is rare. The lecturer pauses for a sip of water. Students aren’t talking. And no one’s cell phone is vibrating, trilling or playing the latest Billboard-chart favorite. Yet, the faint clatter of typing rises from at least one set of fingers — an ever-present sign that today’s …
From MSNBC: The ultrahigh-speed Internet2 network just got 10 times faster, partly in anticipation of rising demand for capacity after the world’s largest particle collider opens near Geneva next year. Until recently, the Internet2 had a theoretical limit of 10 gigabits per second, which is thousands of times faster than standard home broadband connections. By …
Regular subscriber Pat send me in a link to Nexus Radio and said: Cool free internet radio program, can also record songs to play on your mp3 player! The software is rated highly at Download.com. The software is by Egisca, and their site describes it this way: Nexus Radio is a free full featured radio …
From NetworkWorld: Google’s much-hyped entrance into the office tool market dominated by Microsoft doesn’t seem to have worried CEO Steve Ballmer, who dismissed competitors as not “even as good as ‘me too’†in an interview Wednesday. When asked about the challenge Google poses to Microsoft, Ballmer acknowledged that Google is the clear leader in search …
From CNN: Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for a discovery that lets computers, iPods and other digital devices store reams of data on ever-shrinking hard drives. France’s Albert Fert and German Peter Gruenberg independently discovered a physical effect in 1988 has led to sensitive tools for reading the information …