Windows
How Can I Record Streaming Video? (Follow-Up)
As you may remember, I recently talked about a couple of software options that will record streaming video in the Windows Media format. Instead of just giving one perspective on the matter, I asked the audience of Gnomies to tell me what tools they use to preserve streaming video. Many of you wrote in, and [...]
Access Denied
Scenario: You have just reinstalled Windows XP Pro on your Boot partition. After everything is up and running, you go to open a text file on your data partition and get an error: Access Denied. How can this happen? Why can you not open your file anymore? I get this question more than most on [...]
Defibrillators on Amazon? Shocking!
I clicked over to Amazon this morning and saw something featured on the front page that I never would have expected in a thousand years: a home defibrillator. I guess the defibrillator shouldn’t have struck me as being odd, as the big A has become the store that wants to sell everything to everyone. Why [...]
Google Takes on Satellite Imagery
In a slightly unexpected move, Google announced that it had acquired satellite mapping firm Keyhole. Keyhole’s exciting and innovative technology allows users to “…fly from space to your home town. Visit exotic locales such as Maui, Tokyo, Rome and Paris. Satellite imagery makes it real. Explore restaurants, hotels, parks and schools. Think magic carpet ride,” [...]
Top Four ISPs Wrap Lawsuit Noose Around Spammers' Necks
EarthLink, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo! all filed lawsuits today against spammers in California, Virginia, and Washington. While it is unclear whether the timing was coordinated, who the heck cares? Good on ya, Aunty says! EarthLink’s lawsuit, filed under CAN-SPAM, is against “the Mortgage Lead Spammers” and “the Drug Spammers.” (Don’t you just love it?)
Qwik-Fix Pro and The Saga of the Not Really Free Software
This seems like a very good time to lay out the situation vis-a-vis PivX and their product Qwik-Fix Pro Home edition. Let me say right now that my “beef” (as one of the principals in this matter put it) is not necessarily with PivX or with eWeek, who published the review that got ME involved [...]
Flying High with Wi-Fi
My flight to Denver wasn’t on one of those new-fangled planes with wireless Internet access on-board. And while United lets you listen to the same chatter that the pilots hear, I didn’t even have access to an audio jack. I could’ve opened up my laptop and written a few things en route, but my battery [...]
Ashampoo UnInstaller Platinum Suite BETA Released
Monitor And Remove Windows Applications Completely! Ashampoo UnInstaller Platinum Suite works by creating two “snapshots” of your system, one before you install an application and another one directly afterwards. These snapshots record the entire status of your computer system, including all registry entries, the locations, dates, sizes and versions of all files and the contents [...]
Volutive
It’s a fact that many of the Gnomies around the world are currently running their own businesses. If your enterprise (if you want to call it that) only consists of you, then you’re obligated to wear many different hats. You have to be your own marketer, manager, accountant, and so forth. One of the most [...]
Zagat Survey
Where do you want to eat? That’s the inevitable question that comes up all of the time. Instead of just going to one of your normal establishments, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to check into what other culinary treats are scattered around your area. The best restaurants are usually relatively unknown. You don’t just [...]
