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I have a desktop calendar called “365 Pretty Good Jokes” (most of them aren’t very good). The jokes for Saturday and Sunday were computer related… You know something? If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed… Oh, wait. He does. and The best part about computers is that they make very fast, …
From the New York Times: After failing to make any headway as a search engine, Ask.com is largely abandoning the effort and will now become a question-and-answer service. The retreat is a major blow for Barry Diller, the chief executive of the e-commerce company IAC/InterActiveCorp, which had paid $1.85 billion in 2005 for Ask.com and …
From the Globe and Mail: Rev. Lisa Vaughan wants to say a prayer for your BlackBerry. Or maybe your laptop or any other communication gadget you use. Rev. Vaughan plans to hold the decidedly contemporary blessing service this Sunday at St. Timothy’s Anglican Church in Hatchet Lake, outside Halifax. “I think they traditionally used to …
I was going through some old files yesterday, and I came across the receipt for a monitor, a CD burner, and some CDs that I bout on May 26, 1999 at Costco. The 19″ monitor was $300. 20 burnable CDs were $32.99, and the burner was $389.99. Wow! That was an expensive burner. Now they …
From the New York Times: Forget about desperate housewives. To witness true frustration, watch desperate PC users trying to type, send e-mail or work on a spreadsheet, only to be delayed by those pesky hourglass icons for seconds or even minutes until their computers finally respond. Now Soluto, a company based in Tel Aviv, aims …
You may have heard of this before, but Mike Nolet posted a page where you can analyze your browser history and it tells you whether you are likely a male or a female. I just did it, and it said there was a 30% change I’m female and 70% change I’m male (which is correct).
I’ve posted before some links to sites that help you download videos from the web. Another one is Splandoo. The dropdown box lets you choose from over a dozen different video providers. Note: The video providers are often changing their web sites, so some videos may download correctly, but others may not.
Do you have some time to kill? Do you like trivia? If so, then you should check out Sporcle. The site describes itself in this way: Founded in early 2007, Sporcle came to life with the response to its first quiz, naming the U.S. Presidents. As avid crossword, Jeopardy! and trivia fans, we created that …
One of the blogs I follow is the Workers’ Edge blog by Dennis O’Reiley of CNET News. Dennis offers “tips and tricks for the cubicle-dweller”. I don’t work in a cubicle, but I do appreciate some of the productivity software tips he gives. A couple of the most useful Outlook tips were: Remove the attachments …
I’m still a pretty big Windows XP fan. I like the look and feel of it, and it does what I need it to do with minimal interruption. However, that doesn’t mean it is perfect. Here is an older PC World article that shares a list of features that would be good to have: Some …