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Dealing with glare on displays
Hamburg - Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? Many computer users find themselves in the same position as the Queen in Snow White: looking into a mirror. The difference: This mirror is intended to be a computer screen. Laptop...
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Computer and internet briefs
Washington - You can make the Windows Start menu your own by changing, to some degree, the way it looks and operates. Right-click the Start menu, and select Properties from the pop-up menu. Explore the options there, and click the Customise button to...
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Avoid internet banking at online cafes while on holidays
Bonn - Vacationers should only check their bank accounts at internet cafes in emergencies, warns the BSI German Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology. Transferring funds or even simply checking an account balance gives hackers an oppo...
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New laptops from Fujitsu Siemens
Munich - Fujitsu Siemens is releasing the Pa 3515 and Pa 3553 laptops, its first models from the new core-and-shell design series. As the computers come equipped with AMD mobile processor technology and ATI's Radeon HD 3200 graphic chip, the screen h...
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Big and fast: New hard drives from Western Digital, Toshiba
Munich - Caviar Black is the name of the new hard drive series from hardware maker Western Digital. The drives offer 750 Gigabytes (GB) or 1 Terabyte (TB) of storage space. The 3.5 inch SATA hard drives offer speeds of more than 7200 RPM and boast 32...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jul 2005 18:43 UTC
On Tuesday, Microsoft posted a patch to its web site designed to prevent the problem, known as a memory leak. This error has plagued Microsoft's Tablet PC operating system for a long time . In addition, the software giant has promised not to charge for security fixes, but will charge for virus protection.
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Recent Original Stories
PCMag reviews iWork '06 . "For word processing, the Apple iWork '06 Pages program is no match for Microsoft Word or ThinkFree Office 3.0. But it's capable, and its ability to create gorgeous documents easily is unequaled on the Mac."
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Microsoft targets engineers at Yahoo
Microsoft intensified its recruitment campaign on Saturday to woo Yahoo's technical talent as turmoil in Yahoo intensified with a stream of new reports about departing executives. "There is just great search talent here," said Doug ...
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Get the guide to raise your kids
When we buy a new car or new computer, we receive an owner's guide to help us when there is a problem. Unfortunately, new babies don't come with an owner's guide. So new parents often leave the hospital with their new bundle of joy wondering, what do I do now.
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Blues snap up St. Louisan
OTTAWA — Philip McRae doesn't have to go far to be reminded of who his dad is. He simply turns on his computer and finds that a friend has e-mailed him a video clip of former Blues tough guy Basil McRae throwing punches. "Pretty much all of his highlights are all fights," Philip quipped.
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7,000+ Computers Found Trading Child Porn In MO
Child-exploitation investigators in Missouri find more than 7,000 computers trading known images of child pornography.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Nov 2006 23:13 UTC
"A comprehensive feature-by-feature guide to Windows Vista . With contributions from people who actually worked on the product, this is the definitive resource to learn about Windows Vista. The Windows Vista Product Guide is available in the new Microsoft Word 2007 or the new XPS format."
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Recent Original Stories
"If Linux is 85% of the way to being a viable alternative to Windows/Office, it'll get the rest of the way soon . Very soon. The Mark Shuttleworths and Scott McNealys of the world will make sure of that.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Aug 2006 17:24 UTC
I'm a bit weary of the new "improvements" in Finder, or rather where they're leading. Let's hope Apple doesn't try and pull a Microsoft by attempting to go completely search-based. It was a bad design back with winfs and it still is.
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Recent Original Stories
"Right at this moment, big changes have or are about to occur in three well-known browsers: Internet Explorer is finally being updated, with version 7 in its third beta and almost ready to roll out the door; Firefox is also ripening an upgrade beta for its Version 2.0 - it's in beta 1; and finally Opera, which has a devoted but smaller following, has recently come out with Version 9.0. So, three ...
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Bill Gates surrendering Microsoft helm
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates answers a question during a press conference in Tokyo, on May 7. A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on June 27.
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Ostler: Beijing drama is gripping ... my laptop
You want drama in your Olympic Games, and so far the Beijing Olympics is delivering. Tension is building nicely. The torch relay has experienced embarrassing incidents, including the Old Hidden Torch Trick in San Francisco. Which has contributed to a Chinese...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st May 2006 16:04 UTC
New Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz's first 100 days at the helm are about to get interesting. First up: managing an internal debate over whether the company should open-source Java. According to sources inside Sun, an ongoing debate over whether to open-source Java is coming to a head with the JavaOne conference looming May 16.
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by (Staff) on Wed 28th Sep 2005 04:07 UTC
Linux, nor Windows, are ready for the Desktop as far as Joe user sees it. 1. Predictability (Uniform Interface, Grammar, Etc...) 2. Simple Effective Security (than by obscurity) 3. Common Sense Interface (5 min learning curve for 6yr old) 4. Simple, Free/Cheap, Extendability (i.e. Apps, but not viewed as files containing data that executes to peform a function) 5. Driverless operation (A common ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Oct 2006 14:53 UTC
The KDE team has released KDE 3.5.5 , a maintenance release. Main changes: "Version 0.12.3 of Kopete replaces 0.11.3 in KDE 3.5.5, it includes support for Adium themes, performance improvements and better support for the Yahoo! and Jabber protocols; support for sudo in kdesu; support for input shape from XShape1.1 in KWin (KDE window manager); lots of speed improvements and fixes in Konqueror's ...
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Latest in battle gear is a prize: batteries
Napoleon Bonaparte once said that an army marches on its stomach. But were he alive today, the French general might put another item high on his list of logistical burdens - batteries. Thanks to night vision goggles, battlefield computers and the pervasive...
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Dell's Linux Software Architect blogs on behind-the-scenes moves towards Linux support on Dell client systems
and announces a new public mailing list for related discussions. "We put a lot of effort into our Linux offerings on our workstations and servers. On the client side, our efforts are much more behind-the-scenes.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Jan 2006 12:55 UTC
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Micheal Dell was asked what he would do to fix Apple. Dell replied: "What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders."
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Bill Gates 'retires' this week
A university dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on June 27.
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Internet-savvy voters shake up US poll
Videos shared on YouTube and blogs scrutinising candidates are part of an internet-age revolution shaking up the US presidential election and sweeping in a new political era.
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