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The Best 157 Free Software
2008-03-08 19:11:00 We did the math: If you bought popular apps instead of trying their gratis counter-parts, at the manufacturers' list prices you'd be out $5,183 and change! Why spend money when you can get what you need for nothing? Sometimes, you do get what you don't pay for. Hall of Fame Adobe Readerwww.adobe.comWindows | MacOS | Linux | Mobile This simplest of Adobe's PDF programs lets you do just More About: Software , Free , Free Software
$60M to shoot a satellite?
2008-02-22 11:21:00 A missile fired from a Navy warship on Wednesday night shot down a U.S. spy satellite that had been malfunctioning 130 miles above the Earth. The price tag for the endeavor has been pegged at upward of $30 million and even as high as $60 million, depending on the news report. Why did it cost so much money to shoot one missile? A missile fired from a Navy warship on Wednesday night shot down a More About: Satellite , Shoot
5 tips for salon safety
2008-02-18 18:34:00 Ever worry where that stylist's hair brush or nail file has been? Here's how to avoid common salon mishaps and germs. By definition, getting pampered shouldn't be painful. But if you're heading to the salon, you don't want your indulgent treatment to come with anything extra, like an infection. Millions of people visit manicurists each year, and every so often they end up with untrained beauty More About: Safety , Tips , Salon
How to spot the wayward spy satellite
2008-02-16 10:33:00 During the next week, a wayward U.S. spy satellite will make passes across North America and western Europe soon after sunset and should be easily visible to the unaided eye.That's if it doesn't get shot down first.The falling satellite is named USA 193. It was launched Dec. 14, 2006. It has been described as being similar in size to a school bus and might weigh as much as 10,000 pounds. It More About: Satellite , Spot
Scientists create 'no tears' onions
2008-02-02 15:25:00 Scientists in New Zealand and Japan have created a "tear-free" onion using biotechnology to switch off the gene behind the enzyme that makes us cry, one of the leading researchers said Friday. The discovery could signal an end to one of cooking's eternal puzzles: why does cutting up a simple onion sting the eyes and trigger teardrops? The research institute in New Zealand, Crop and Food, More About: Scientists , Create , Onions
If your spouse spies on your web surfing...?
2008-02-02 15:15:00 Anonymous writes: I am soon to be a single mother. My soon to be ex-husband and I owned a computer store. I only have a working knowledge of computers; he was very good at it. When he left the house, he still was able to enter the PC, and I think he installed a keylogger program on the family computer. I can't do anything on my computer at home for this reason, and was wondering if you would More About: Surfing , Spies , Spouse
Cell phone risks to planes
2008-01-25 19:10:00 "Few rules are more confounding to airline passengers than those regarding the use of cellphones and portable electronic devices." I'd add the quart-sized plastic bag to that list, but I digress: Smith is right. Is it really true that something as innocuous as a Treo left on in row 32 could cause a jumbo jet to go down in flames? Let's ask Smith himself: He isn't just a pundit, he's a More About: Phone , Cell Phone , Cell , Planes , Cell-phone
Is Microsoft Cooking Something Juicy for Linux/Open Source?
2008-01-23 17:57:00 Is Microsoft cooking something extra juicy for Linux /open source? The Redmond company announced earlier this week that a prominent member of the open source security world has jumped onboard, switching sides from Linux to Windows. Michael Howard, Senior Security Program Manager in the Security Engineering group at Microsoft, revealed that Crispin Cowan, CTO & Co-Founder, Immunix, would be More About: Cooking , Open Source , Open
Keep an Eye on Your Router: It May Lead You On a Wrong Way!
2008-01-23 17:42:00 If you thought that malware has made an obsession out of Windows-based operating systems only, you're wrong. A new type of criminal attack is committed to take over one of the most common hardwarein a computer network: the router. According to the latest security reports, a new kind of attack tries to lure Internet users on spoofed banking pages, where they are faced with an exact clone of More About: Wrong , Router , Lead
The iGoogle Theme API is now
2008-01-23 13:50:00 Since we launched themes on iGoogle last March, we've enjoyed seeing how people have connected with them. For instance, we've gotten fan mail for the "fox in the teahouse" theme, and seen some great blog posts generated when folks discover the Easter egg for each theme.Users and developers alike have been clamoring to know when they can develop themes for the iGoogle homepage, and we're happy to More About: Theme
20 Analytics Tools For Blogs
2008-01-20 04:14:00 There are a lot of data points that can be meaningful for tracking blog effectiveness. That is, tracking what happens when visitors arrive at and engage with your blog content. It really comes down to the purpose of your blog. Metrics for a blog that’s focused on making a web site more search engine friendly by adding crawlable content and attracting links is quite different than a blog that’s More About: Tools , Blogs , Analytics
10 Things The IT Department Doesn't You to Know
2008-01-20 04:11:00 Admit it: For many of us, our work computer is a home away from home.It seems only fair, since our home computer is typically an office away from the office. So in between typing up reports and poring over spreadsheets, we use our office PCs to keep up with our lives. We do birthday shopping, check out funny clips on YouTube and catch up with friends by e-mail or instant message.And often it's More About: Department , Things
HOW TO: fix video smearing, blurring and ghosting on ATI video cards
2008-01-20 03:05:00 If you're running an ATI video card in your machine, you might have noticed image ghosting, blurring and smearing when playing back DVDs and videos. Here's how to fix it. All my Vista Media Centre machines are based around ATI hardware – I don’t have a particular bias against NVIDIA products, but I’ve found the ATI drivers to be just that much more stable and responsive over time, and sometimes More About: Video , Cards , Ghosting
Google declares $10M Android competition open
2008-01-20 02:53:00 The race to develop applications for Google 's new Android mobile phone platform is officially on after 'cross-platform bugs' in the submission system were fixed. Google has allocated $10m to the competition which has been split into two parts. Challenge 1 will be accepting entries until March 3rd with a total prize pool of $5m. The Android competition is designed to generate lots of apps, not More About: Competition , Open
Vista SP1 refresh made public
2008-01-16 16:57:00 Last week Microsoft released an updated build of Windows Vista SP1 to a private testers group via Microsoft Connect. A couple of days later the release was extended to the general public via Windows Update, which means it’s not available as a full, self-contained install package. The new build doesn’t contain any new features, but rather a number of fixes for bugs encountered by beta testers More About: Public , Made , Refresh
MacBook Air: top 10 things wrong with it
2008-01-16 16:43:00 Like an anorexic fashion model, Apple's new super-thin MacBook Air has made too many compromises for the sake of being skinny. 1. 80GB iPod hard drive being used as a system drive. It's 4200 RPM slow and after years of encouraging people to amass a horde of digital media, how can Apple really expect people to fit their iTunes library, digital videos and so on onto 80GB? With notebook hard More About: Things , Wrong , Macbook , Macbook Air
New Hardware for Vista SP1 (DirectX 10.1) - XP SP3 Too?
2008-01-15 17:11:00 Microsoft is currently in the final stages of cooking both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. In December 2007, the first public builds of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, namely the Release Candidates became available for download. In the second week in January, the Redmond company dropped a refresh for Vista SP1 RC1, namely Build 17128. As of now, there is no word yet if More About: Hardware , Rect
10 must-have games in 2008
2008-01-05 12:14:00 Let's face it: 2007 was a bumper year for gamers, no matter what platform or genre you're into. But the New Year is a time to look forward, and all signs indicate that this year's going to be even better. Here are the 10 games we're most anticipating in 2008 , from Grand Theft Auto to Fallout 3, complete with the hottest video clips for each one. By the time you reach the end, expect to make your More About: Games
10 Myths About Windows Passwords
2008-01-05 12:00:00 When I first clicked on this article, I expected to see yet another diatribe telling you to use numbers, mixed-case letters, and special characters when you created a password. Boy was I wrong.Get past some of the geeky language and you'll find a truly eye-opening story about the security of passwords in Windows .Some key points from the piece (at least, points that challenge the conventional More About: Myths , Passwords
How to Pick the Perfect Password
2008-01-05 11:53:00 When it comes to security, Bruce Schneier is a god among us mere mortals. He has written some of the most influential books on computer security and cryptography ever printed, and his blog is essential reading for anyone on the Internet.So when Bruce says here's how to create a secure password (and how he creates his own passwords), I listen. His post on the topic is extensive, so I'll try to More About: Password , Perfect , Pick
BlackBerry & iPhone at war
2008-01-04 16:31:00 Target markets for the iPhone and BlackBerry are starting to overlap. The iPhone is a media consumer's dream, playing movies and music with ease. But it's not as finely tuned for the corporate user; large companies have resisted letting employees use iPhones on corporate networks, and IT consultant Gartner has advised its corporate clients to avoid the iPhone for now.Meanwhile, BlackBerrys are More About: Iphone , Blackberry
Better TV is coming, but are you ready for it?
2008-01-02 12:53:00 Better TV is coming, but are you ready for it?The digital dilemma: Disappearance of analog signals just a year away Behind the placid pictures, a made-for-TV storm is looming. Since the first days of television, the method of beaming pictures into our living rooms hasn’t changed much. But on Feb. 17, 2009, television stations across the country will hit the off button on this time-tested More About: Ready
Top Security Software of 2007
2007-12-29 18:58:00 2007 has been a busy year when it comes to computer security, with all kinds of threats aiming to be deployed on people's computers. Trojan horses, malware, viruses, spam and hack attacks, they have all joined their forces to break into our systems. Because of that, security companies from all over the world struggled to build new solutions or to update the existing ones, just to prove the More About: Software , Security
Google Maps Reviewed
2007-12-24 20:21:00 The tools used for navigation and exploration are fraught with metaphorical possibility. A compass or telescope can be a powerful symbol for search, discovery, and the fearless embrace of the unknown. A map can tell you where you are, give you an idea of what lies ahead, and even better, give scale and breadth to your location. Maps connect us with the world in a way that is tangible, visual and More About: Google , Google Maps
Best Web Services of 2007
2007-12-24 18:15:00 Yesterday I listed my top software picks for 2007. Now let’s turn our attention to the Web, where some truly stellar services appeared and/or evolved this year. Seriously, how did we ever call ourselves productive before the Web came along? Google Everything I can’t pick a single Google product. Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Notebook… shall I go on? Although these More About: Services , Web Services
More Rules of Engagement for Blogger PR
2007-12-24 18:13:00 You’ve got to hand it to the folks at Ogilvy PR. First they stuck their necks out to codify a “Blogger PR Code of Ethics,” and now they are back with Round 2, consisting of modifications and amplifications of their original code. For their efforts and for posting it all for the rest of us to use, they deserve a round of applause.We posted on this topic a few days ago, so if you need to get up to More About: Rules , Engagement
Top Apps of 2007
2007-12-24 18:10:00 As the year winds to a close, it’s time to look back on some of the killer apps we’ve covered in 2007. Here’s a list of my personal favorites: GIMP 2.4 Photoshop-caliber image editing without the high price. In fact, there’s no price at all: GIMP is an open-source (read: free) application. ODIR The Outlook Duplicate Items Remover does exactly what it promises: finds and removes duplicate
New Inbox Visualization for Gmail
2007-12-20 21:19:00 The colored labels, which were introduced a couple of weeks ago, kind of revolutionized the approach to inbox and made it all of a sudden a friendly place with a means to quickly find whatever was needed, without having to use the internal search engine built into the client. If red meansfamily, then just click it in order to find all the mails from your siblings or whoever wrote you and have More About: Gmail , Visualization , Inbox
Happy New Year and Dangerous Computer Infections
2007-12-20 21:07:00 lthough we're all expecting to see a rise in the number of web attacks, there are only a few weak spam campaigns currently in progress with low damage potential and pretty easy to detect malicious attachments. Security company F-Secure today found another spamattack attempting to deploy an executable file, which shows a nice looking Christmas Tree on your desktop. But it actually drops some More About: New Year , Computer , Happy , Happy New Year , Infections
The Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say in Email Subject Lines
More articles from this author:2007-08-24 16:38:00 If you've ever heard George Carlin's famous "Seven Dirty Words " you can't say on TV, you can safely avoid using all seven in your subject lines. They will definitely get you blocked. Here is a list of 100 more that you should avoid using as well: Top 100 words NOT to use in your subject lines: 100% free 50% off act nowall words that relate to sex or pornography all words that related to cures or More About: Email , Lines , Subject 1, 2 |
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