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That Damn PC

Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous Doohickies’ Category

November 16th, 2006

got web junk? enter it in a contest to win a computer

VH1 and Intel present another “Show Us Your Junk” contest. You may win a $10,000 prize and a brand new laptop computer powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor.Winners appear in “Web Junk 20″ on December 15th and the grand prize winner will be revealed during the season finale on December 22nd. To […]

By Mary Ford -- 0 comments

October 16th, 2006

PC of the future: your phone

PC of the future: your phone. Why? Trends toward free wifi service encourage mobile services previously only available as laptop web services. Witness: Portland will have free WiFi in a few months. [Daily Wireless] Moreover, T-Mobile opens Hotspots to Sony mylo [Digital Trends] How can you benefit from this emerging market and what does […]

By Mary Ford -- 3 comments

October 13th, 2006

Top tip: make your own graphics, with free Cropper software

For some months, I’ve been using Cropper, a neat little image capture program, freely offered by Brian Scott. The neat thing about this little image capture program is its amazing ability to remain unobtrusive, yet powerful.
Brian has included additional plugins for download which extend this screen capture program’s ability to speed your work online: […]

By Mary Ford -- 1 comment

October 8th, 2006

How to transfer your VHS tapes to DVD, PSP, iPod or Zen Vision

In September, I wrote how easy it is to convert your vinyl records to digital recordings with ADS Instant Music. Because of our success with ADS’s Instant Music convertor, I decided to convert our VHS videotapes to iPod and DVD movies. It was just as easy as ADS promised:

Purchase the DVDXpressDX2, available for about […]

By Mary Ford -- 1 comment

July 24th, 2006

Samurize

Lifehacker turned me on to a nifty little tool today called Samurize. Samurize is a tool that will display the output of your command line wanderings to your desktop. The configuration is kind of convoluted but the app works really well. Reminds me of Linux on my box.
1. Right-click on the Samurize icon in your […]

By Aaron -- 0 comments

May 11th, 2006

Mixing Unix with Windows

There are a number of projects out there that attempt to bring the flexibility and features of Unix to Windows. Windows, comparitively speaking, is a very weak shell OS. By that I mean that while it has a lot of tools that are handy for Windows systems administrators, there are significantly more tools […]

By Aaron -- 3 comments

May 1st, 2006

How 2 Email Gud

Kim, over at Blog Fabulous, has gone ballistic on email etiquette and text messaging. I would tend to agree with her.
I’m assuming this person was text messaging me from her cell phone. Text messaging has mutilated our language into an unispired collection of abbreviations and acronyms. You know this is coming, the Motorola Shakespear […]

By Aaron -- 0 comments

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