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Gmaps Pedometer is a handy site that lets you map out your router for walking or running. It provides you with overall distances, the distance of the last “leg” and a calorie counter. You can even save the route and let others see it. The site describes it this way: What is this? This is …
From TechRepublic: Scott Draves is tapping the spare processing power in PCs for the sake of art. Draves is the artist and computer programmer behind the 7-year-old “Electric Sheep” project, a free, downloadable application that combines art, interactivity and distributed computing. It’s a bit like the SETI@Home project, which harnesses PCs around the Internet to …
Welcome to blufr, a free, addictive trivia game challenging you to identify statements as true or false. Answer below to get to the next bluf! Answers.com has created a trivia game called blufr that is essentially asks you if a statement is true or false. But these certainly aren’t your standard questions. I played for …
From TechRepublic: Employers are quite concerned about the legal and financial risks caused by inappropriate employee electronic communications. In fact, they are firing employees who violate workplace computer policies. I recently wrote about how employers face considerable challenges figuring out to handle employees’ electronic communications, such as blogging and instant messaging. According to the 2006 …
Last week I discussed practicing using a single focal length to get a better understanding of how a given focal length can affect you photographs. This week, I discuss a few tips for improving your travel photography. If you have ever had to sit through a slide show of someone’s travel photographs, you are well …
I remember hearing about this when it first came out, but I never tried it until yesterday. Google has a neat service called Google Notebook. They describe it this way: Google Notebook makes web research of all kinds – from planning a vacation to researching a school paper to buying a car – easier and …
From TechRepublic: I was never particularly big on anniversaries. But in a couple of weeks, the computer industry will mark a milestone that deserves a moment of quiet celebration. On Aug. 12, 1981, the IBM Corporation debuted the PC. It’s hardly hyperbole to suggest that this single announcement did more to change the world of …
From CNN: Dennis Hwang may be the most famous unknown artist in the world — his work doesn’t hang in galleries or museums, but it’s been viewed hundreds of millions of times. The 28-year-old webmaster designs the whimsical logos that decorate Google.com’s otherwise Spartan Web site on special occasions. “It’s always a fun kind of …
From USA Today: E-mail is so last millennium. Young people see it as a good way to reach an elder — a parent, teacher or a boss — or to receive an attached file. But increasingly, the former darling of high-tech communication is losing favor to instant and text messaging, and to the chatter generated …
The old adage about practice makes perfect applies to photography as well. Very few cameras today have fixed focal length lenses but they are still available. Quality in zoom lenses has become much better with the passing of time and now super zooms (in the 10 and 12x range) allow consumers to get in even …