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Menlo striving to reinvent workplace wheel
It's not true that you must work 80-hour weeks, trash competitors and gouge your customers to get ahead in today's dog-eat-dog business world. Rich Sheridan and his gang of computer programmers and high-tech anthropologists at Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor, Mich., say so. They are dedicated to reinventing the workplace, for themselves and their clients, as a means to an even more ambitious ...
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BlackBerry has a few tricks up its nifty sleeve
If you're a BlackBerry user, you're probably getting tired of hearing about all the things Apple's iPhone can do. Rumor even has it that a more iPhone-like BlackBerry is in the works. But don't despond: Your current trusty e-mailing device has a few tricks up its sleeve that you may not know about. This week, I gathered up some useful shortcuts that come built into most of the BlackBerrys, ...
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IdeaPad design will turn heads
After Lenovo bought IBM's laptop division in 2005, everyone expected more of the same: somber ThinkPad laptops with IBM's signature durability. But now Lenovo is releasing laptops that are more suited to the catwalk than the boardroom. The U110 IdeaPad is a thin laptop with an 11.1-inch screen and Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It starts at $1,899, which includes a 120-gigabyte hard drive and 2 ...
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Paper, paper everywhere, even in a digital world
Thirty years ago, as new computing and communications technology started to come to the fore, technology researchers and analysts began to talk confidently about the coming paperless society. Today, many such experts would settle for a society that simply uses a little less paper. “The paperless-society goal is a very nice and noble one,” said Arpad Horvath, an associate professor at the ...
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Programs can help PCs, Macs get along
Q: I use a 1 GB USB flash drive to move files between my Windows laptop PC at work and my MacBook portable at home. But that doesn't work with the 160 GB external drive I use to back up my MacBook; my Windows laptop doesn't even recognize the external drive when it's connected. What's the problem? The disk storage formats used by the Macintosh and Windows operating systems are different. While ...
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5 ways to stash a little cash
Everywhere you turn, it seems there's another pinch in the pocketbook. From gas to groceries, everyone's getting hit by higher prices. To help stretch your dollars, here are five places to look for savings: 1. BUNDLE UP If you're dealing with separate companies and separate bills for your cable TV, phone and Internet service, think about bundling up. Many companies, like SureWest and ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Sep 2005 17:42 UTC
"Kam Vedbrat is a lead program manager on the Aero team which redesigned the User Interface of Windows Vista. We spend half an hour looking at the user interface ." ( stream file , .wmv)
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Recent Original Stories
Linux and UNIX-like operating systems in general are regarded as being more secure for the common user, in contrast with operating systems that have "Windows" as part of their name.
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Recent Original Stories
"I have noticed these days that the computer market is either falling into some sort of dictatorship or some other power of influence that is forcing the computer market into a no choice market where the choice is handpicked by either some monopoly or by a misperception made by the wrong decision makers in today's computer industry.
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Alleged racism attracts online attention
A local woman who said a racist hate-group targeted her grandchildren earlier this week claims to have received hundreds of anonymous phone calls since her story hit the airwaves and the Internet.
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Virtual Attack
A week ago, New Braunfels grandmother Mary Alice Altorfer had never heard of YouTube. Now she’s a hot topic on one of the most influential Web sites in America.
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Camp a unique way to boost alma mater
Alum hatched idea for Giants to train at UAlbany Giants training camp at the University at Albany, a month-long event that for the past decade has brought NFL stars and hundreds of thousands of fans through the Western Avenue campus, traces back to a simple question:WHAT ABOUT ALBANY? Jon Berger, then working as the Giants' director of computer services, was eating dinner with his wife, ...
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Nevermind the movies — trailers hot online
It's been a so-so year for movies, but it's shaping up to be an excellent year for trailers.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Boomers Connect for Better Health through Online Conversations
(ARA) - Want advice on how to train for a marathon or treat depression? Baby boomers are increasingly finding answers to these kinds of health questions online, and not necessarily just on medical Web sites.
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Upper Adams: Laptops on way, with or without state grant
Upper Adams School District intends to progress with plans to give laptops to its high school students despite not knowing whether it will receive a state grant for the program.
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Chew On This: Food News You Can Use
It seems like some of us spend more time sitting at a computer than standing in front of a stove. Here's another reason to be pounding the keyboard instead of a meat mallet -- Meijer's Mealbox. This innovative meal-planning Web widget has it all, including a weekly calendar and hundreds of recipes.
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Program aims to help children stay safe online
The state attorney general's office is teaming up with the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library to help kids and teenagers stay safe online, beginning with a program at 6:30 p. m. Monday in the Anna M. Reinstein Memorial Library, 2580 Harlem Road, Cheektowaga.
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Hawai'i campaigns barely dip into Net
While much has been made of the campaign donations and political support raised online by national politicians, Hawai'i candidates still rely heavily on more traditional methods, according to campaign organizers and political scientists.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 7th May 2007 22:56 UTC
The Gentoo Release Engineering project is pleased to announce the much-delayed release of Gentoo Linux 2007.0, code named 'Secret Sauce'.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft said Monday it has finalized the code for Office 2007 , marking the completion of the first of two key projects for the software giant.
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Commission hopefuls share views at LWV forum
The second group of Oakland County Commission candidates were asked questions ranging from the impact of business regulation to the future of Wireless Oakland at a League of Women Voters forum Thursday night.
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A Webcast Odyssey
NASA has Houston. Benjamin Higginbotham has Eden Prairie. What, you've never heard of it? The southwest suburb of Minneapolis serves as ground control for his SpaceVidcast, a daily Internet show about space travel. An admitted tech-obsessed geek, Higginbotham, 30, gets excited when he boasts about the motorized satellite dish on his roof that he can control from anywhere in the world.
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Collectors like official political memorabilia
Politics and political campaigns are featured in every newspaper, Web site and blog, and collectors are looking at the new memorabilia that can be part of a collection. The official pins sold or given away by the party, not the souvenir pins sold by merchants, are the ones that gain in collector...
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Falls man admits role in 13th Street burglary
LOCKPORT -- A Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty Thursday to taking part in a house burglary on 13th Street in the Falls on Nov. 19 in which computer games were stolen.
The Buffalo News |
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Alleged racism attracts online attention
A local woman who said a racist hate-group targeted her grandchildren earlier this week claims to have received hundreds of anonymous phone calls since her story hit the airwaves and the Internet.
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