Posted on November 16th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
Anyone who has looked at the night sky has wondered about what they see. It would be nice to know if that bright star is Betelgeuse, in the belt of Orion the Hunter, or Polaris, the North Star that has guided so many travelers for thousands of years. In fact, most of us haven’t a clue.
So we have been trying out a new device from telescope maker Meade (Meade.com). It’s called MySky Plus.
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Posted on November 16th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
Instructables.com and yoursprout.com
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Posted on November 16th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
O’Reilly’s “Head First” series is totally great, as they like to say in Silicon Valley. We often consult “Head First HTML,” to figure out web page coding. Well, here are two new ones.
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Posted on November 9th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
Viewzi.com is a new visual alternative to Google. Instead of text descriptions of sites that correspond to your search terms, you get pictures.
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Posted on November 9th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
The maker of “Snap Art” says the Sept. 15th cover of New Yorker Magazine was done with his program. “I’d recognize my baby anywhere,” he says. The New Yorker is famed for its artful covers and many people have them framed. The editors are silent on whether that particular cover was done with Snap Art, a plug-in program for Adobe Photoshop.
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Posted on November 9th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
For computer users who travel a lot, the new “Netbooks” are small and lightweight. And they cost a lot less than laptops.
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Posted on November 9th, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
Scientific Imaging with Photoshop; Methods, Measurement and Output,” by Jerry Sedgewick; $75 from New Riders Press, newriders.com.
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Posted on November 2nd, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
When times turn down, theft turns up. After cash and jewelry, the most valuable portable objects may be laptops.
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Posted on November 1st, 2008 by Joy Schwabach
Sometimes it’s not enough to have anti-virus and anti-spyware. If you have personal information stored on your computer, only the dumbest thieves would miss it. That personal information, in fact, may be the reason they’re stealing the computer.
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We tried out a new program called “IdentityFinder” …
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