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The Circus of Dr Lao: A Small, Strange American Masterpiece
Psst. Come in, come in! I’ve got a weird and wonderful book for you. There are books that feel like neatly arranged shelves. Then there are books like The Circus of Dr. Lao , which feels more like someone opened a door in the back of the room and a carnival wandered…
APPLE DOES A FUNNY
Those funny guys at Apple! It’s just a laugh a minute over there. In Mac OS 10.5 “Leopard,” this is the image used to represent each Windows computer on a…
RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR COMPUTERS
I wish we could count on the software and hardware vendors to play fair and treat us well, but it’s not happening. We have to take responsibility for our computers. When…
LEOPARD VS. VISTA
The nonstop criticism of Vista has been getting me down, and Apple’s release of Mac OS 10.5 “Leopard” has been greeted with so much overhyped enthusiasm that I…
THE WIRELESS FUTURE
Wireless technology is a blur of confusing acronyms and frequent frustration, but we are making progress and there continues to be hope that more and more wires will disappear in…
ACROBAT 8.1.1 UPDATE
Do not open unexpected PDF e-mail attachments! Do not open any unexpected e-mail attachments! Got that? Good. Then we can move on to an important security update from Adobe. If…
SEND TEXT MESSAGES BY E-MAIL
You can send e-mail messages and have them show up as a text message on an SMS-enabled phone, if you know the cell phone carrier used by the recipient. Here’s a list that…
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIRE MAPS
The Google Maps team put together this list of maps that have information about the devastating fires in Southern California. According to the Los Angeles Times, almost a million…
SAMSUNG i760
For some reason Verizon has not attempted to generate any excitement about the new Samsung i760 cell phone/PDA, even though it looks very nice and perhaps is even a worthy…
BITTORRENT & BAGGAGE NEUTRALITY
Advocates of “network neutrality” have trouble conveying the real world implications of an arcane-sounding technical issue. Two items in the news help illustrate why…
WINDOWS LIVE PHOTO GALLERY
Microsoft has an appealing new program for displaying and sharing your photos. There is no shortage of photo programs and online services, but if you haven’t committed to…
HACKERS MOVING AWAY FROM WINDOWS
There’s some evidence that Windows has become secure enough that the bad guys that write viruses and rootkits and phishing attacks are looking elsewhere. It’s…
RIAA SUES USENET.COM
The first rule of Usenet is, you don’t talk about Usenet. Careful observation of that rule has allowed Internet newsgroups to avoid getting involved in the entertainment…
TOP 100 BLOGS
Looking through blogs (“web logs”) occupies most of my web-surfing time these days. Everybody has heard the term but some people aren’t sure what a blog is or…
LOGMEIN FREE
LogMeIn Free is a completely free service that gives you remote access to your home or office computer, any time, from anywhere. Remote access services run software on your home…
OUTLOOK 2007 CALENDAR PRINTING ASSISTANT
There’s a remarkable world of applications designed to work with Microsoft Office. In fact, there’s probably more programs included under the “Office”…