Posted on September 30th, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Lately we’ve been getting lots of link requests from people using the LinkedIn.com business networking service. And no wonder: there are over 14 million users.
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Posted on September 28th, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
What’s different about OnlyMyEmail.com is that it’s a spam filtering service that obliterates the spam. Unlike other spam filters, the entire message is examined for content, not just a search for key words that might be objectionable.
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Posted on September 27th, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Show you’re friends where you’ve been on a world map, or take a walking tour.
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Posted on September 26th, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
We looked at Net Jet, a new $25 game device from toy maker Hasbro and Tiger Electronics. It’s a hand-held game controller that plugs into any USB slot on a Windows computer. Games come on small flash drives that plug into the controller, much like memory cards plugging into a digital camera.
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Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
SpyBot Search and Destroy is out in a new version that adds a spy shield to block incoming bad guys and keep the decks clear. And as before, it’s free.
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Posted on September 22nd, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
The new Canon camcorder that comes out in October will contain a 40-gigabyte hard drive, letting the shooter store 15 hours of standard video or 5.5 hours in high definition. With a whole lot of planning you could theoretically shoot an entire movie in one run.
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Posted on September 21st, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
There is a truncated free version of the best-selling game Peggle at the maker’s Web site, PopCap.com orMSN.com. It’s an action-filled pinball game that has been downloaded more than 5 million times.
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Posted on September 20th, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
Most computer game players are not teenagers, but are, in fact, well into their adult years. Here are some of the numbers…
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Posted on September 19th, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
“FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual” by Susan Prosser and Geoff Coffey; $35 from MissingManuals.com.
FileMaker Pro is an insanely popular database program, not least because it works the same on either Windows or Mac machines. It’s powerful enough to manage a substantial business or a small country.
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Posted on September 16th, 2007 by Bob and Joy Schwabach
We’ve become quite taken with using two monitors. We mean two at once.
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