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The Best New Music Of 2020
Spotify released the personalized Wrapped 2020 playlist a few days ago. I was a bit surprised to discover that my fave-rave most-played song in 2020 was the sound of soothing ocean waves. It turns out that Spotify’s algorithms get the teensiest bit confused if you...
MICROSOFT STUDENT 2006
Microsoft Student 2006 is on the shelves now for under a hundred dollars. Parents of middle-school and high school students should take a long look. Here are some notes to...
WINDOWS INTERNET EXPLORER 7
Microsoft will release Internet Explorer 7 in a few months. (If you're interested in marketing, you should note that the name has been subtly changed to "Windows Internet...
MOVING PICTURES FROM CAMERA TO COMPUTER
There are a thousand ways to transfer photos from your camera to a computer. None of them are wrong, but it's all too easy to get lost in a blur of unfamiliar programs fighting...
MICROSOFT UPDATE
Microsoft released a new batch of security updates for Windows and Internet Explorer yesterday. If you have Automatic Updates turned on and your computer is left on overnight,...
REMOTE ACCESS WITH MYWEBEXPC
More and more people are looking for remote access to their office computers to run programs or work on files from outside the office.Microsoft Small Business Server users have...
COMCAST PROBLEMS IN BAY AREA
Comcast is having trouble with Internet service in the Bay Area. Problems began on August 2 and became widespread enough that Comcast was forced to admit it yesterday. Here's a...
MICROSOFT SYNCTOY
Microsoft has released an interesting new utility named SyncToy - the "toy" part is because it's part of the PowerToy series of utilities, not because it's playful.SyncToy is an...
FIVE STARS FOR J RIVER MEDIA CENTER
CNet's Download.com gives J River Media Center 11 a five-star review. "Boasting an attractive interface and an extensive feature set, J River Media Center leads the pack of media...
LIFE IN HELL WITH SYMANTEC ANTIVIRUS
A brief recap. Norton Antivirus is still the easiest antivirus program to use and keep up to date. Symantec has tightened the screws on licensing and the program is getting more...
MSN VIRTUAL EARTH
Microsoft opened MSN Virtual Earth today in response to Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google Local. Here's an article about the new service. On first glance it doesn't come...
OUTLOOK “PERSON NAMES SMART TAGS”
Microsoft Outlook XP and 2003 added a feature called "Person Names Smart Tags" which occasionally can cause delays when opening messages. The tags add an icon by a sender's name...
TOP TEN WEB FADS
If you've been online for a few years, the odds are you'll have a twinge of nostalgia for some of the things on this list of the Top 10 Web fads. The Dancing Baby, Hampsterdance,...
AMD vs. INTEL
Litigators (and some normal people) should browse through the complaint filed by AMD against Intel for unfair competition, monopolistic bullying, name-calling, and child abuse....
GOOGLE MAPS HYBRID VIEW
Google Maps has added a hybrid view today that combines their satellite and map views, so you can see both at the same time.
MICROSOFT VIDEO SCREENSAVER
There have been screensavers for a long time that would display a slide show of your photos. Now video is coming into its own, as evidenced by the Microsoft Video Screensaver. It...