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From Datamation: Workers! If your office space sounds like the inside of a wind tunnel from the incessant hum of all the PCs surrounding you, lend me your ears. A small manufacturing company recently started shipping a new kind of PC case that emits almost no audible noise whatsoever. Its components stay cool without the …
From CNet News: On Thursday, two Senate Democrats, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana, introduced a bill called the “Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2006.” The 11-page measure would require the U.S. Department of Commerce to work with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit organization that …
From USA Today: The power of broadband Internet service is expanding the reach of Christian faithful who want to spread the word. Increasingly, houses of worship and individuals are using the Internet to reach adherents and those outside their communities, in a trend sometimes called “Godcasting.” “We want to try to make worship opportunities and …
Last week I discussed how to hold your digital camera in order to achieve better photos. This week I will give you a small tip to ensure your camera can record your photos. There are certain steps that need to be repeated again and again in the process of digital photography. Shooting is only one …
Favorville.com is a social networking tool which provides members with the opportunity to help and be helped by others. With Favorville, members can post help requests, offer help and help grow the community. Favorville makes it easy to get in touch and build lasting connections with helpful neighbors, both in your locale or across the …
The Canadian IT Pro blog recently posted a PDF file with a lot of handy keyboard shortcuts. It is a 5-page document that lists shortcuts for Windows, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Internet Explorer, Outlook, Google, Adobe Reader, and a few specific advanced shortcuts. It’s quite good. You can download the PDF from their site.
From CNet News: Although it has taken Microsoft five years to develop the next version of Windows, the software maker seems to crank out a new Windows Live service every five minutes. And, to some degree, that’s the point. Last fall, MSN executive David Cole and his colleagues pitched CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill …
The March 2006 issue of Windows IT Pro magazine has a tip from Mark Minasi about some utilities that Microsoft includes in their Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit: The two resource kit tools—CDBurn and DVDBurn—exploit some of Windows 2003’s and XP’s under-the-hood disc-burning capabilities that the Roxio software doesn’t exploit. Given an ISO file, CDBurn …
From CBC News: A university in the Halifax area is banning the use of computer software designed to help professors catch plagiarists. Student leaders at Mount Saint Vincent University in Bedford, N.S., have been lobbying to stop professors from using the online database turnitin.com, and the university’s senate agreed in a vote on Monday. The …
From TechRepublic: A Cuban dissident who has been on a hunger strike for 36 days to demand unfettered Internet access is refusing medication and his health is deteriorating rapidly, fellow dissidents said on Wednesday. Guillermo Farinas, a 41-year-old psychologist, went on a hunger strike on Jan. 31 to press Cuba’s Communist authorities to respect his …