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From TechRepublic: Great work is being done to narrow the gap between the technical haves and the have-nots across the planet. At MIT, Professor Nicholas Negroponte seeks to equip every child in the developing world with a laptop. In Kenya, the government is supporting assembly of inexpensive PCs as part of university curricula, ultimately designating …
From Reuters: From apples to zebras, all 1.8 million known plant and animal species will be listed in an Internet-based “Encyclopedia of Life” under a $100 million project, scientists said on Tuesday. The 10-year scheme, launched with initial grants of $12.5 million from two U.S.-based foundations, could aid everyone from children with biology homework to …
From TechRepublic: The nonprofit One Laptop per Child project said on Thursday it might sell versions of its kid-friendly laptops in the United States, reversing its previous position of distributing them to only the poorest nations. “We can’t ignore the United States. … We are looking at it very seriously,” Nicholas Negroponte, a Massachusetts Institute …
This site is a fabulous resource for free fonts. There are 5 pages with samples of fonts. To download the font, you just click on the sample and a ZIP file will download. The site explains how they determine which fonts are “tops”: Top 500 is calculated based on download counts from some of the …
From ComputerWeekly.com: A survey of 1,500 UK office workers by market research firm Tickbox.net, on behalf of ergonomic monitor firm ViewSonic, shows a link between poor ergonomics knowledge and ailments such as headaches, eye fatigue and backache. The study reveals that 46% of office workers spend six or more hours in front of their computer …
From NewsFactor: The Internet superhighway has broken another speed limit — twice in as many days. The Internet2 Consortium announced Tuesday that an international team led by the University of Tokyo transmitted data at speeds of 7.67 Gbps late last year, and then at 9.08 Gbps the very next day. The first record-breaking transmission took …
I found this a while ago through a link from Pirillo’s Picks. Undelete Plus is a free utility that tries to recover previously deleted files. I tried it out for the first time today on my 1 GB USB drive. It took about 5 minutes to scan the drive. It scanned what it said were …
From USA Today: Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007 in a recently published brand ranking. It’s the second year in a row a tech brand has beaten household names such as Coca-Cola, Marlboro and Toyota. In the ranking, which factored in financial performance …
From CNN: Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar, of Claysburg, Pennsylvania, was crowned LG National Texting champion on Saturday after she typed “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” from “Mary Poppins” in 15 seconds. “I’m going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes,” the teen said after winning her $25,000 prize from the electronics company LG. Morgan defeated nearly 200 other competitors …
Today’s tip is another tip for Adobe Lightroom users. The third tip that I wrote dealt with organizing your images. Today’s tip is how Lightroom can help you with that. Using the Library Module in Lightroom, tagging images with keywords could not be any easier. With your thumbnails visible, select an image or a series …