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How To Lose Friends And Influence People: Microsoft Rolls Out New Edge Browser
Microsoft is going to give you a lovely gift soon. Will you be grateful for their kindness? No. You will purse your lips like you sucked a lemon and you will be annoyed. Microsoft is kind of like a puppy who runs around peeing on things, hoping that you'll notice and...
OUTLOOK 2003 AND SPAM
(I hate to jinx anything by mentioning it, but the spam filter in Outlook 2003 is catching 98% of my spam. And there's been close to zero false positives. I spent about a week...
NEW MEMORY DEVICE
Engineers at Princeton University and Hewlett Packard have come up with a combination of cheap materials that might result in a very small card capable of storing far more data...
iTUNES ECONOMICS
The Register's article today helps us understand the online music services. Apple's iTunes store charges 99 cents per song. Apple claims it is the most popular of several...
WINDOWS XP KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Everybody can use at least a few keyboard shortcuts. Here's a chart that summarizes all the Windows keyboard tricks. Many people know about CTRL-C, X & V for cut/copy/paste,...
RIAA DOUBLETHINK
The recording industry filed 80 more federal lawsuits around the country Thursday against people using file sharing programs. Here's a wire service article about the lawsuits....
PHISHING IS FOUL
"Phishing" is a new buzzword for an old scam. Crooks are sending e-mails posing as legitimate businesses asking users for personal information - passwords, account numbers,...
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 STUDENT EDITION
Microsoft Office 2003 has arrived in the stores. The "Basic Edition" includes Word, Excel, and Outlook. The "Standard Edition" adds Powerpoint. There's increasing interest in...
DELL MP3 PLAYER
Dell will be unveiling its MP3 player and online music service tomorrow, in another direct shot at Apple's iPod and iTunes. Like the iPod, the Dell Digital Jukebox is a high...
MESSENGER SERVICE POPUPS
You may get ads popping up on your screen through the “Messenger Service” built in to Windows. It is a rarely used service that probably should have been disabled by default. Now...
BROADCAST FLAGS AND THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION
The FCC is preparing to move forward with regulations to support the embedding of a "broadcast flag" to encrypt digital television signals. This is a complex issue but it may...
SKYPE
The buzz is rising to deafening levels for Skype, new software for making telephone calls over the Internet. It's a new project from the Swedes who invented Kazaa, and in the...
NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2004
Norton Antivirus 2004 cannot be used until the product is "activated," just like Windows and Office. That means a separate copy has to be purchased for each computer - you can't...
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003
Microsoft Office 2003 goes on sale this week. If you're using Office 2000 or Office 97, there are improvements throughout the programs in the suite that make upgrading...
AUTOMATIC UPDATES
Microsoft released a batch of security updates for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. If your system notifies you that it has downloaded new updates, be sure to install them. Or go to...
SMALL WORLD
I stumbled on a web site full of wonderful photos - Molecular Expressions, devoted to the world of optical microscopy. Hundreds of photos of common objects viewed on a...