Monk-e-mail

I’m sure many of you have seen this before, but CareerBuilder has a page on their site with a funny little flash tool called Monk-e-mail. The tool lets you send a message to someone and have it spoken in a browser by a monkey (get it? … monkey email). You can customize the monkey, its …

Microsoft’s ‘Cloud OS’ takes shape

From ZDNet: Microsoft is in the early stages of a plan that will see virtually its entire lineup of underlying Internet services opened up to developers, the software maker made clear this week. In addition to making available its existing services, such as mail and instant messaging, Microsoft also will create core infrastructure services, such …

AOL Settles Case Over Tactics to Keep Customers

From the New York Times: Averting a court battle over how it has handled the exodus from its Internet dial-up service, AOL has agreed to make it easier for its remaining customers to leave as part of a $3 million settlement with 48 states and the District of Columbia. The resolution, announced Wednesday, was driven …

Tips for panoramic stitching – Digital Photography Tip of the Week

Many of the software packages that come with digital camera’s as well as a lot of the photo editing software applications have features that let you stitch a series of images together to create a panoramic shot. There are a few steps you want to take before hand though to be sure you have some …

Updated Sysinternals utilities

I’ve mentioned Sysinternals a couple of times before. They make fantastic system utilities for Windows operating systems, and were recently acquired by Microsoft. On Monday, their blog posted that there is a new Active Directory utility, and 3 updates to other utilities. Most of the tools are particularly useful in an environment where there are …

Cyberbullying really is that bad

From MSNBC: Teenagers can be serious jerks. You don’t need research by the Pew Internet and American Life Project on cyberbullying to know that. It’s interesting to note however, that at the dawn of the 21st century, teenagers have effectively transferred their jerk skills from corporeal to virtual, launching torments once reserved for the lunchroom, …

Family Craft Times

Michaels is a large arts & crafts store with hundreds of stores. One opened up in our city this Spring, and my wife was ecstatic. She was there a few days ago and picked up a flyer about their Family Craft Times newsletter. this is a monthly email newsletter where you get craft ideas to …

Your first girlfriend — and the other things search engines store about you

From ComputerWorld: What if there were a giant database that contained your hidden insecurities, embarrassing medical questions and the fact that you still think from time to time about your high school girlfriend? Well, such a data store does exist — if you’ve ever plugged such private topics into a search engine. The fact is, …

Where are your high-tech manners?

From CNN: Just because you live in a high-tech world doesn’t mean your manners can sink to new lows when using your personal technology, experts say. “No doubt there’ve always been stinkers from the start of time,” says Honore Ervin, co-author of “The Etiquette Grrls: Things You Need to Be Told” and “More Things You …

New Paragon Drive Copy 8.5

Paragon Software has released a new version of their Drive Copy software, version 8.5: Paragon Software Group, the technological leader in innovative data security and data management technology, announces the release of Drive Copy 8.5 – the ideal software for real-time hard disk copy, personal data and applications migration, disk-to-disk backup, basic and advanced hard …