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2005 June

California to Ban Internet Hunting of Live Game

California Senator Debra Bowen, known for her tough stance against spam, is now taking a shot (no pun intended) at what she sees as another Internet scourge: real-time remote Internet hunting of live game.

Names

Long before I had kids, I’d been fascinated with names, their origins, and how people come up with them for their kids. When I was cleaning my bookshelves, I couldn’t believe how many books of names I had. These are not baby name books, but books about their histories and meanings.

Spybot - Search & Destroy v1.4 Released

The new version of this excellent free program (donations encouraged) has been released. This is one of my main weapons when debugging a customer’s computer of spyware. There are some bugs in this release - Patrick Kolla is having major trouble developing with Borland Delphi - but promises a fixed version soon.

SuperAffiliateHandbook.com

I often joke with my manager about finding another job, one that would pay me as much as I make now, but I would only have to work half as much. He asks me why would I want to work twice as hard as I am now. I THINK he is kidding (I hope he [...]

AimingClick Online Reference Tool

AimingClick gives you a quick online reference, translation, or explanation for a word you highlight in any Windows application. AimingClick is a reference book, dictionary, encyclopedia, Web search engine, and many other information sources in one software tool.
These sources can be queried by one or two mouse clicks or keystrokes. You don’t even need to [...]

SmartClose

Every time I play the Sims 2, I have to go through the same old steps of shutting down all the background processes, then starting up the game. Then, when I am finished, I have to restart my computer to get things running the way they were before I started playing. Seems like [...]

New Media Picks

Here I am, Robin Good, with a new and impressive bunch of tools, online services, and resources. I invite you to enjoy, try-out, and report your own impressions on my new picks, and then share interesting services that you have found on your own excursions.

this WEEK in TECH

Ever since TechTV was bought out by G4, people have been frustrated with the lack of true technology content that is on the air today. Don’t even try to tune into G4 - my grandma can tell you more about technology than they can. If you’re like me, then you reminisce about the days when [...]

Battle Of Gettysburg

Jul 1, 1864
More than 600,000 Americans gave their lives for their country in the Civil War (1861-1865); more than any other war in our history. Although the North prevailed over the South, the grief and bitterness caused by the violence healed very slowly. Learn more at these fine sites.

Audio Guides On The Web

Today on the Web you can find guides for just about anywhere, from the Bahamas to Beijing. These guides often give you great information about where to go and what to see. But it is the amount of different guides on the Web that makes them all the more useful, because each one [...]

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