September 24, 2014

Printing Part of a Web Page

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I did it once last week, and then I showed the trick to my son. We both had the same problem and it was resolved in the same way: How do you print only part of a web page, as opposed to wasting multiple sheets of paper?
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September 23, 2014

Meet Talko

Filed under: News — admin @ 8:15 am

Not taco, but Talko is a new app developed by fabled Microsoft programmer Ray Ozzie. He asked the simple question, “What if the Internet came first and some startup discovered that you could transmit voice over the Internet?” The result is Talko.

C|net

September 22, 2014

Cloud Storage Overload

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This cloud storage stuff is becoming ridiculous. I understand the value. I use cloud storage. With so many players are into the act now, I actually have more cloud storage options than I know what to do with.
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September 20, 2014

Moon Landing Myth Busted

Filed under: News — admin @ 8:26 am

You’ve heard the conspiracies: The USA really didn’t land on the moon. It was all done in a Hollywood studio.

To prove the conspiracy, fingers point to the photographs that show light coming from more than one source. According to some postulators, that proves the landing was faked because on the Moon light would only come from the Sun. Anything not in sunlight would be pitch black. That sounds reasonable.

Yet by using new video simulation technology, NVidia (the graphics card company) has shown how light would really work on the moon. It’s pretty interesting, plus there is a video so you don’t have to read anything.

Digital Trends

September 19, 2014

Filename Shortcut – Shortcut

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It’s one of the most annoying things in Windows: When you create a file shortcut, the text shortcut is appended to the filename. It’s redundant because of the shortcut flag on the icon anyway, and it requires you to do more work in that you need to rename the shortcut immediately after it’s created. So I have a solution.
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September 18, 2014

1,000,000,000 Websites – Visit Them All!

Filed under: News — admin @ 8:17 am

It’s official. The number of individual websites has surpassed one billion.

I don’t know if that figure lists subdomains or not. For example, when you create your own WordPress (blog) website, that’s really a subdomain, not a unique domain. The article (below) doesn’t mention the specifics.

Yahoo! News

September 17, 2014

Windows 9 Expectations

Filed under: News — admin @ 7:47 am

InfoWorld takes a sneak peak at Windows 9. In about two weeks, the “beta” is officially unveiled. Then we’ll all know what Microsoft has in store for the next Windows release.

My suggestion for Windows 9’s real name: Windows Apology.

InfoWorld

Hello, Developer?

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With millions of apps available at the Google Play Store, a few of them are bound to stink. They may not work as advertised. They may have bugs. And they could potentially be offensive or do something unintended. When such things happen, you can let the app developer know.
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September 16, 2014

Death of the iPod

Filed under: News — admin @ 8:00 am

Say farewell to the single-purpose device. The camera. The Gameboy. The GPS. The MP3 music player. All gone. Times have changed, indeed.

Wired

September 15, 2014

Microsoft Surface Under Water

Filed under: News — admin @ 8:19 am

Microsoft tries, they really do. Bill Gates is infamous for sloughing off the Internet in the early 1990s. Microsoft was late to the market on phones, tablets, and their Surface device is well, sinking.

Supposedly, Microsoft paid the NFL millions to promote their Surface tablets. Despite their efforts, game announcers refer to the devices as “iPads.”

According to Computerworld, Microsoft is $1.7 billion in the red on Surface. They sell one Surface tablet to every 27 iPads that Apple sells. Given the universal farting sound (and smell) that Windows 8 has generated, the question needs to be asked: Can Microsoft pull itself out of this hole?

Computerworld

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