I personally think this is outrageous. Border Agents in the United States can not only search your laptop, mobile phone or any other electronic device that you might be carrying while traveling to the United States; They can also download computer contents or keep it for further examination. There are no written rules yet on the dos and don’ts of the process and while it is unlikely that they will confiscate or examine every single electronic device they might examine yours.
Read more »The major difficulty that I see with all those Web 2.0 social networking websites is that there is no central administration but one for each website you are a member of. Want to share some private photos with friends at Flickr ? Then tell them they need access to Flickr so that you can add them. Want to share some stuff at Facebook ? Tell them they need a Facebook account. Want to Twitter ? Tell them.. You get the point.
Read more »Extracting emails from files is probably something that most users will never even think of doing. It can however be interesting for some users who have them stored in a database with all kinds of information and want to extract all emails to mail every user in that database. It can be used for spamming users as well but I’m not advocating this falling victim to lots of spam emails each day.
Read more »Feels like Geek-day today. After the virtual girlfriend article I present you another article that falls into the geeky but cute category. This time it’s Papercraft Toys by Cubeecraft, a website that is offering free papercraft model downloads that can bring a smile on the old and young.
Read more »Microsoft released four security updates for various applications and operating systems that they produce. Three of the four updates are regarded as critical while one has a moderate risk level. To break it up further: Two patches are updating Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003 and Office 2007, one Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 and the last one applications that use the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine which includes Windows Live Care and Windows Defender.
Read more »I’m very fond of the Usenet client Newsbin which I have been using for many years. It’s not a free software and I made the purchase because at that time it was definitely the best client available. I’m sometimes getting asked if there are free alternatives to Newsbin and I always have to say that I have not tested any of them. But John Tash send me an email a while ago asking about my opinion about the news client Alt.Binz and I finally found some time to check it out.
Read more »Open-source users will be pleased to know that the latest Linux operating system sponsored by Red Hat - Fedora 9 - has been released.
Read more »I have seen my fair share of geeky stuff on the Internet and the Virtual Girlfriend definitely makes it straight to the top. Geeks don’t have girlfriends, that’s what people believe and while it sometimes may be true it more often than not is not, except for gay geeks maybe who tend to have boyfriends instead. (sidenote: wow there is even a website with that name but no content yet)
Read more »Some options in Outlook Express can only be changed by editing the Windows Registry. A comfortable way of editing those settings is the application Tweaker for Outlook Express which provides easier access to several of those options and features.
Read more »Several users encounter problems and difficulties during and after installation of the two new Windows service packs that Microsoft released earlier this year. Both service packs will be automatically downloaded later this year to computers that have automatic updates enabled which could prove disastrous for companies who cannot afford that they computers stop working after the update.
Read more »I have a lot of friends gushing over popular social networking site Facebook but I can’t for the life of me figure out what’s so great about it. It’s cluttered, difficult to navigate and then, there are the applications. I’ve written about my dislike of Facebook apps earlier and was looking for a way to stop receiving invites for them.
Read more »I came in contact with a Windows Media Center PC only recently, specifically with Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. I noticed that it did not recognize DVDs that were stored on the hard drive of the computer which was kinda odd for a Media Center.
Well a little research revealed a Registry setting that would enable the option to enable the DVD library in Windows Media Center 2005. That DVD Library can store the DVDs that are stored on the hard drive in a Video_TS folder.
Microsoft has announced that the next major release of Office for Macs will reunite users with Visual Basic for Applications.
Read more »It is extremely important for some businesses and individuals to have the latest weather information at hand. These weather information can be retrieved numerous way, for example by listening to Radio, watching TV or calling a weather hotline. Something that was missing in the picture was a reliable live weather forecast for computers. Most PC applications would display a weather forecast and other information on a daily basis which might be not enough for some businesses.
Read more »What’s the first thing you do when your Internet connection is not working ? I changed my reasoning from thinking that it was related to my computer to one that assumed the Internet Service Provider was responsible for the outage. Well that’s not 100% true but I know several signs that tell me if it is my fault or the fault of my ISP.
I usually restart my router to be on the safe side but that’s it. Sometimes you can make a connection to the Internet but that connection feels slow, you get disconnections and websites that are not loading properly.
Having considered buying an Asus Eee PC I must admit that I never thought that the models could have more differences than just the color. I would have never assumed that the keyboard would be different as well depending on the color of the model that you choose. The Laptop Mag investigated black and white Asus Eee Pc models and discovered that the black and white models are indeed equipped with different keyboards.
Read more »The Microsoft Small Business Center is offering six free design families for Microsoft Office 2007 that can be downloaded directly from the promotional website. A design family is simply a collection of several templates for different Office 2007 applications that have all the same look and feel to them.
Read more »I really like to watch technology presentations and demonstrations, especially on the TED website but also on other websites. I recently came upon a presentation for Microsoft’s Touchwall, an inexpensive rear-projection system.
The video below is a demonstration by Director of Envisioning Ian Sands who explains various features and the technique behind the Microsoft Touchwall product. The software used to run the show is called Plex running on the Vista plattform. The other equipment was a plexiglass screen, a rear projector, an infrared camera and three infrared lasers.
