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From BBC: Young women are now the most dominant group online in the UK, according to new research from net measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings. Women in the 18 – 34 age group account for 18% of all online Britons. They also spend the most time online – accounting for 27% more of the total UK computer …
The latest edition of the Windows Secrets newsletter has a link to a neat Flash activity that lets you “operate” on a stuffed rabbit. You should check it out. It always amazes me what people are able to program and put on the web!
Today’s tip is a simple one, yet effective one. A bride and groom can be one of the hardest subjects to expose well. The bride is usually dressed in a very white gown and the groom, a very black tuxedo. Together it is an exposure nightmare. One trick to helping with this is to place …
I’ve reviewed several products from Paragon in the past. They just recently released Hard Disk Manager 8.5. It is Windows Vista compatible, and allows you to perform various partition operations (resize, remove, copy, etc) as well as perform backups and restores. I haven’t tried the product, but I’ve been impressed with their previous products, so …
The latest version of the Remote Desktop Connection software from Microsoft supports Windows Vista. There are a few different features with it that my be causing you some frustration. A good place to start is at the Terminal Services Team Blog. They have a Vista Remote Desktop Connection Authentication FAQ that answers some useful questions …
From the Globe and Mail: In the back offices of the software firm Mailworkz, programmers are hard at work developing technology to battle the fraudsters that plague Internet advertising. The invisible enemy is known as “click fraud,” where a malicious competitor or a bogus website operator is clicking on “pay-per-click” advertisements and listings without any …
From USA Today: New Internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the Internet’s key oversight agency announced Thursday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers invited public comment on procedures for creating new names, the first expansion for general use since 2000. Names added since …
From CNN: Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers. Now, one of his original computers is going to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. The 42-year-old chairman and …
From BusinessWeek: True believers made the pilgrimage to Silicon Valley on May 10, as both Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) held their annual meetings. The companies’ fervent supporters turned out en masse. It took Google CEO Eric Schmidt a mere five seconds to get a round of applause as he opened his shareholder meeting—and all …
The old saying is April showers bring May flowers. Today I offer a couple tips to help you capture the beauty in those flowers. 1. Try to avoid full sun. Shooting in full, midday sunlight will produce high contrast photos with distracting shadows. If you have to shoot in these conditions, try to use a …