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Predicting The Election, With Hope And Laser Bears
There is a wall between today and Inauguration Day. No one can guess what is on the other side of that wall. When I imagine peeking over the wall on the good days, it is a place of healing. Birds are chirping. We are looking at each other with less suspicion, daring...
BLOGLINES MOBILE
Some of you may have another reason to consider setting up Bloglines to organize your list of the websites that you read daily: it's immediately useful on a mobile device with an...
HP MEDIASMART SERVER
Here's a review worth reading of HP's MediaSmart Server, built on Windows Home Server. It's got a nice summary of Windows Home Server features and the added features supplied by...
WINDOWS HOME SERVER DEBUTS
Microsoft's Windows Home Server just arrived on the market - and it's what you want for Xmas.I'll give you a short overview and some links for you to click on, but let's do some...
MICROSOFT SEARCH SERVER 2008 EXPRESS
Microsoft is finalizing Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, a free product for searching files on network servers. It has the potential to fill a need for many small...
Vista Feature: Breadcrumbs
Let's highlight a few Vista features that improve life in small but meaningful ways. My personal favorite is a feature for moving through folders known as "breadcrumbs." Almost...
BLOG AGGREGATORS
If you're interested in technology, one of the first sites to check in the morning is TechMeme, a wildly popular service that checks thousands of blogs and news sites and...
KEEPING UP WITH BLOGS
Let's talk about blogs and RSS feeds. It might have more relevance than you think.If you're like most people, most of your web surfing time is spent visiting the same few web...
APPLE DOES A FUNNY
Those funny guys at Apple! It's just a laugh a minute over there.In Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard," this is the image used to represent each Windows computer on a network. It's an old CRT...
RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR COMPUTERS
I wish we could count on the software and hardware vendors to play fair and treat us well, but it's not happening. We have to take responsibility for our computers.When Windows...
LEOPARD VS. VISTA
The nonstop criticism of Vista has been getting me down, and Apple's release of Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard" has been greeted with so much overhyped enthusiasm that I began to wonder if...
THE WIRELESS FUTURE
Wireless technology is a blur of confusing acronyms and frequent frustration, but we are making progress and there continues to be hope that more and more wires will disappear in...
ACROBAT 8.1.1 UPDATE
Do not open unexpected PDF e-mail attachments!Do not open any unexpected e-mail attachments!Got that? Good. Then we can move on to an important security update from Adobe.If you...
SEND TEXT MESSAGES BY E-MAIL
You can send e-mail messages and have them show up as a text message on an SMS-enabled phone, if you know the cell phone carrier used by the recipient. Here's a list that may...
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRE MAPS
The Google Maps team put together this list of maps that have information about the devastating fires in Southern California. According to the Los Angeles Times, almost a million...
SAMSUNG i760
For some reason Verizon has not attempted to generate any excitement about the new Samsung i760 cell phone/PDA, even though it looks very nice and perhaps is even a worthy...