Posted on December 15th, 2006 by Joy Schwabach
Do you like to listen to music or nature sounds as you fall asleep? We do, and when we go on a long train trip in December we’re going to take along Samsung’s new K5 player, which holds a thousand songs and has battery life of six to 30 hours.
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Posted on December 14th, 2006 by Joy Schwabach
The software that comes with CardScan Team business card scanner updates everybody on a network when new business cards are entered.
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Posted on December 14th, 2006 by Joy Schwabach
Spymac.com -a community for Mac users. OnlineIdols.com offers prizes for videos of your singing, dancing, or playing an instrument.
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Posted on December 13th, 2006 by Joy Schwabach
“The Cult of Mac” by Leander Kahney; $25 paperback, from www.nostarch.com. If you love your Mac, you’ll love this book. There are an estimated 25 million Mac users in the world, about 3 percent of all computers. It’s small as a percentage, but huge as a potential sales figure for this book.
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Posted on December 12th, 2006 by Joy Schwabach
Do you love a mystery? Joy was quickly hooked by Agatha Christie’s famous “Murder on the Orient Express,” just out as a $30 PC game from Dreamcatchergames.com.
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Posted on December 10th, 2006 by Joy Schwabach
A digital highlighter and a slideshow maker for your website.
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Posted on December 8th, 2006 by Joy Schwabach
NTI Ninja works with any USB flash or hard drive and allows you to set part of the drive’s contents to be open and part of them locked. A similar program is Folder Lock, which we wrote about last year. It’s $35, and Ninja is $10.
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Posted on December 7th, 2006 by Joy Schwabach
We read recently that National Semiconductor bought 15,000 Video iPods so their employees could watch training videos wherever they went. (That must have been some sales order.) So if you want to make some training videos (think students as well as workers), we have a couple of good programs to use.
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Posted on December 7th, 2006 by Joy Schwabach
For a different kind of holiday greeting, we went with the video postcard. These are offered free at Movavi.com.
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Posted on December 6th, 2006 by Joy Schwabach
Greentortoise.com -wild bus trips.
Hobbit holes at Hostelworld.com
Blog.fotolog.com – a former New Yorker editor’s photo site
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