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Apple & The Future Of Personal Computing
Anyone who tries to predict the future is a fool. We can’t predict what will happen next month, much less next year or five years from now.So I’m going to make a prediction.In the next five years, Apple will come to dominate personal computing in much the same way...
OUTLOOK SEARCHES
There's a new utility being developed that might be your new best friend. X1 indexes Outlook e-mail and contacts, as well as all your files, and does lightning-fast searches for...
A9.COM SEARCH
Amazon.com has unveiled its own search engine, www.a9.com. Search results are drawn from Google as well as Amazon, and include search results from inside books indexed by Amazon....
MEDIA CENTER 10
Media Center 10 is the new version of the program formerly known as Media Jukebox - software for playing and organizing your music files. It is a long-time favorite among power...
MORE FUN WITH THE RECORDING INDUSTRY
Once you've built a reputation for being evil and stupid, it has to be hard to find new ways to live up to the reputation. The American recording industry deserves credit for its...
NIGHTMARE ON ADWARE STREET
Here's an article about a tech-savvy journalist who decided to see what happened if he allowed some adware onto his system. He clicked OK on a few dialog boxes that popped up...
GATEWAY STORES TO CLOSE
Gateway announced today that it will close all of its remaining retail stores on April 9, ending an expensive and difficult experiment for a company that has been struggling to...
GOOGLE E-MAIL
Google has begun testing a free webmail service named GMail. Here's a press release from Google about the new service. Google intends to offer each user essentially unlimited...
ADOBE & APPLE DRIFTING APART
Apple fans are increasingly hard-pressed to justify clinging to a product with an insignificant, dwindling market share. The conventional wisdom is that Apple computers have some...
OUTLOOK 2003 SPAM FILTER UPDATE
If you're using Outlook 2003, go to the Office Update site and install whatever updates it suggests. Among other things, you'll get a brand new update for the spam filter in...
MICROSOFT PASSPORT TO NOWHERE
Microsoft's Passport was envisioned as a central place for your personal information, safeguarded by Microsoft, which would then be accessed during your online shopping so you...
REMOTE ACCESS
You may not realize it, but the world of computing is changing this year faster and more fundamentally than ever before. Slowly but unsurely we're being untethered from our...
INTERNET ACCESS CONTROL
I installed NetNanny software on the kids' computer to control their access to inappropriate web sites and to be able to shut off services if necessary - for example, to turn off...
BROADBAND OVER POWER LINES
Perhaps a glimpse of the future: this Slate article describes a company that has rolled out broadband Internet service over power lines to 16,000 homes in Cincinnati. (New...
SECRETS HIDDEN IN MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENTS
Microsoft Word saves "metadata" along with a document - extra information ranging from identification of authors and reviewers of a document to all text added and deleted in...
BITTORRENT
Music downloading is taking off in new directions. Kazaa continues to load annoying adware onto your computer when it's installed. It's harder than ever to find anything other...