ANDROID PROTECTION
Posted on September 30th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
THE TWO-SCREEN LAPTOP REVISITED
Posted on September 28th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Recently, we wrote about an Alaskan company that’s coming out with a dual-screen laptop. Actually, you can make your own laptop or desktop display two screens without ever going to Alaska. You can have dual displays with Windows XP, Windows 7, the Mac and Linux.
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BEYOND FACEBOOK
Posted on September 27th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
If Facebook doesn’t feel private enough, there are other social networks out there. — Posterous, formerly a blogging site, has reinvented itself as a social network called Posterous Spaces. Here you can share audio, video and photos just with certain circles of friends without worrying that anything travels beyond that circle. It’s at Posterous.com. — Another way to go is “Elixio.net” which claims to be a site for movers and shakers. We were a little shaken by event listings: like “International Workshop on Folk Dances of India” and a “VIP party in Abu Dhabi.” There are hundreds of special interest groups in such categories as “Finance,” “Art” “Luxury” and “Film Industry.” There were also unusual (to say the least) ads […]
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CLICK TO DO IT
Posted on September 26th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
One of our favorite Windows commands is “Cntrl-C,” the “copy” command. This allows you to copy any text or pictures you highlighted with the mouse. A new program called “ClickTo” makes this even more powerful — and it’s free. Using the copy command, either from the keyboard or a menu selection, will give you a whole lot of choices of where to paste what you copied. Choose the “Google” icon, and the info goes into the search box at Google.com. Choose Facebook or Twitter and your item automatically becomes a post. You can also choose to move the copied item to Microsoft Word, Excel, Gmail, Evernote, Google Translate and a dozen others.
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BOOKS FOR YOUR INNER INVENTOR
Posted on September 24th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
From the mid 19th through the 20 century, America was the world leader in technology. Perhaps the most important driver of those advances was kids who liked to take apart clocks. They took apart other things as well, of course: toasters, radios, automobile engines, etc.
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HUGE FACEBOOK GAME
Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
If you thought Farmville was hot stuff, wait till you try Zynga Adventure, a new Indiana Jones-style game that will send you looking for the lost city of El Dorado as you traverse jungles, mountains and temples.
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TABLET HORIZONS
Posted on September 22nd, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Amazon is rumored to be coming out with their own tablet computer in the next several months, and naturally it’s expected to be hot stuff. How hot can it be? If you don’t feel like waiting, here are a couple of newbies out now.
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EMAIL GETS OLDER, BUT NEVER OLD
Posted on September 21st, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
PHOTOS ON A DIET
Posted on September 20th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
JPEGmini.com provides better photo compression of large photos than Adobe Photoshop, and it’s free. Our test photo, a picture of tulips, was made into a file four times smaller and we couldn’t tell the difference. This makes it a lot easier to send photos by email, and they’ll open faster.
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DUPLICATE PHOTOS
Posted on September 19th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
We wrote about this before but it’s been a couple years and the problem is still out there. It goes like this: Joy’s computer had once again filled up with duplicate photos. At Bob’s suggestion, she used the free program VisiPics, which quickly found thousands of duplicates and freed up several gigabytes of storage. As it finds duplicates, VisiPics displays thumbnails of each one in a string of images to the left of the screen. It also lists their file size, which is a clue to the picture’s resolution — the bigger the file, the higher the resolution. You can click on any image to delete it. You can also choose an “auto delete” setting. It will then only delete […]
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