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With the beginning of each new year, I do a little clean up of the previous years loose ends set myself up for the coming year. This includes non photography related items such as creating new folders in my filing cabinet for receipts, invoices and bills and ensuring the same folders from last year are …
My wife is really into using a lot of different fonts when she types up different documents. Perhaps she’d be interested in this: Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font that you can use in …
From the New York Times: While entertaining viewers with tales of galactic voyaging and hostile aliens, the “Star Trek†franchise also preached the virtues of interracial (and interspecies) harmony, endearing it to millions. But according to Guido Ooms, a Dutch product designer, “Star Trek’ also warped the minds of consumers and product designers by portraying …
Another one from DownloadSquad: With a new year comes a new release of Software for Starving Students‘ CD of free (as in beer) software. The 2007.01 edition includes a wide gamut of programs to do everything from editing images and creating web pages to playing media files and video games. In other words, you can …
From CBC.ca: With another year of gadgets, games and gizmos come and gone, it’s only natural to ask: What hath technology wrought? This year’s crop of prominent mainstream techno-goodies revolved around one common theme: Entertainment. Videos, games and music were at the top of consumers’ minds. A roundup of the best and worst of 2006 …
From the New York Times: Jared Seltzer faced more than the usual megabyte headaches recently while shopping for a desktop computer for his office in Takoma Park, Md. As the information technology director of the Center for a New American Dream, a small environmental group, he wanted to buy a computer that would be relatively …
From USA Today: Imagine coming home and, with the push of a single button, turning on the lights, turning up the thermostat and flipping on the TV. Another button might shut off all the lights and turn down the thermostat when you leave. Starting next month, Best Buy will sell a “ConnectedLife.Home” package that features …
From the New York Times: The day after Christmas, prices on big screen TVs went down and Raul Axtle pounced. Mr. Axtle and his 16-year-old son, Shaheen, headed to a Best Buy electronics store in Emeryville, Calif., to buy the TV that Shaheen had decided was the perfect screen for displaying video games, a 40-inch …
Over the past several weeks I have been using the new Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Adobe Premier Elements 3.0. Having used every version of Photoshop Elements, I was pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of a few features I have long thought would make this the best product for amateur and serious hobbyist photographers, curves …
Almost everyone uses WindowsUpdate to keep their Microsoft products up to date, but what about all the other applications that you have on your system? Secunia, the well-known security research company, has a new web-based scanner: The Secunia Software Inspector relies on carefully crafted “Secunia File Signatures” to recognise applications on your system. The detected …