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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…
KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
There are a remarkable number of keyboard shortcuts built into Windows and most programs. If you prefer to keep your hands on the keyboard whenever possible, you can get all the…
MICROSOFT OFFICE “ULTIMATE STEAL”
Here’s an odd promotion from Microsoft: for the next few months, college students can buy the most complete version of Office 2007 for $59. The Office Ultimate 2007 suite…
THE ART OF OFFICE
It’s fun to browse for a few minutes over at The Art Of Office – a collection of files contributed by artists and businesspeople, all created with Word, Excel, or…
ACROBAT & PDF CLONES
Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional is highly polished software for creating PDFs from scanned documents or onscreen files, and it adds the ability to use PDFs for other purposes,…
QUICKBOOKS & VISTA REDUX
At the beginning of the year, Intuit claimed that Quickbooks 2007 was ready to be run on Windows Vista. That was an overstatement. Quickbooks 2007 can be made to work on Vista,…
AT&T TARNISHES iPHONE
Apple had to know that signing a deal with AT&T would lead to disgruntled customers. By definition, any customer of AT&T is an unhappy customer, right? It started when…
SENDING & SHARING LARGE FILES
Exchanging documents by e-mail is commonplace in business because it seems so easy, but there are two recurring problems: There is no easy way to track documents traveling by…
COMCAST PUTS ON THE BRAKES
The press occasionally notices that Comcast limits the amount of bandwidth that a cable subscriber is allowed to use. The Washington Post just published an article about the…
IT’S AN IPOD WORLD
Apple demonstrated again today that it can run circles around everyone else with its handheld devices. There will be lots of news coverage of the updates to the iPod line –…
PCLAW UPDATE
LexisNexis has updated some of its software for law firm accounting, but the upgrades only make it harder to figure out the LexisNexis product line. PCLaw had been a stand-alone…
SONIC OPEN WIFI PROJECT
Sonic is demonstrating again that it has its heart in the right place. Now that Earthlink has officially killed its plan to deliver free wireless Internet access to San…
SF FREE WIRELESS, R.I.P.
In January, Google and Earthlink signed a contract to set up free high-speed wireless Internet access for the entire city of San Francisco. The deal provided that EarthLink would…
MORE GOOGLE EARTH TRICKS
I mentioned a few days ago that the latest version of Google Earth includes “Google Sky,” adding the ability to zoom through the universe viewing high-resolution…
SONY ATRAC, R.I.P.
Sony is killing ATRAC, its proprietary format for music files. Here’s a brief news article about today’s death notice. This isn’t important – no one every…
MORE COPYRIGHT CRAZINESS
The world of copyright protection is a mess, and each day brings new craziness. A Federal District Court judge granted a ruling for summary judgment against a family that had run…