The next time we travel we’re going to leave our laptop at home. Why carry around $2,000 worth of theft appeal and have to deal with airport security on top of it? In fact, we’re thinking, why have a laptop at all?
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It’s been a couple of years since we last visited Lynda.com, and a whole lot has happened. Lynda is the queen of Web tutorials, and now you can try out more than 1,700 of them for free. They cover instruction for 75 major software titles. Many of the videos also include closed-captioning for the hearing impaired.
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The founder of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has begun a similar project for travelers. World Wikia is a free and fully editable guide of places to go and things to do.
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Another Nancy Drew mystery is out, and this one contains an online book titled “How to Be a Detective,” with tips that help you solve the case. The case in question is “Danger by Design,” a tale of intrigue and suspense set in the high-fashion world of Paris.
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There are few devices sexier than Itech’s new virtual keyboard. When you plug in the small black unit, it projects a laser image of a standard keyboard. Touch a key and you just typed something.
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There are few devices sexier than Itech’s new virtual keyboard. When you plug in the small black unit, it projects a laser image of a standard keyboard. Touch a key and you just typed something.
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Two new $99 programs from Nuance and ABBYY take dead aim at Adobe’s $499 Acrobat Professional and offer to do nearly the same thing for much less. (Note: PDF stands for “portable document format” and means that any digital image saved in that format will look the same on a screen or in print regardless of the kind of computer you are using or the software it was created with.)
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f you’ve ever been interested in the price of a house that wasn’t for sale, head over to Reply.com, a new real estate service that lets you click on just about any address to find out what it might cost.
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