When I was a kid, I loved looking at 3D images. You know the drill. Pop the 3D glasses out of the magazine, put them over your eyes, look at the pictures, and then fight with your sister about who gets to look at the next one first. Well, now I don’t [...]
Anyone who’s ever been involved in an online company, product, or service knows that community is vital to the success of your endeavor. You can just throw your work out there and hope that people will appreciate it - and some likely will - but when you involve your users and allow them to communicate [...]
January 1, 2006
The Gregorian calendar we use today was created in the 1580s by Pope Gregory XIII. Start your new year here, and discover the history of the calendar’s development.
It’s happened to so many - you forget the password to that critical login of yours. Let it be your online banking, eBay, or your Windows password. The difference is that the passwords for your online banking and eBay accounts can easily be recovered. However, if you forget your Windows administrator password, that opens up [...]
Die-hard Gazette reader Paul B. writes:
Dear Dennis,
I have been a faithful subscriber to your newsletter for a few years now. While I immensely enjoy reading your articles (especially the software reviews), I am constantly second-guessing myself as to which utilities *I* need to keep my system running smoothly.
As a newbie, I would like to know [...]
Okay, now that we’ve spread Christmas cheer to several Gnomies, allow me to reveal one of the coolest gifts I’ve ever received: a telescope. Actually, it started a few years ago, when I received my first telescope from my parents. It was a traditional-looking telescope - a simple refractor, to be exact. This tube worked [...]
Lead your army to victory in this beautifully rendered 3D fantasy chess battle! Enter a world where brave knights, kings, and queens must fight races of dwarves, elves, and other creatures in their quest to regain their kingdom. You choose the battlefield - from ancient temple ruins, to dark forests, to cemeteries. The war is [...]
Talk about simple programs that do simple tasks, that is what Shutdown After is all about. Let’s say you want your computer to shut down at a specific time. All you need to do is enter in a few numbers, and there you go. When the time is reached, your computer will [...]
Flickr has done amazing things for digital photography. Before the creation of this fantastic service, photographers who didn’t have an extensive amount of technical skills would e-mail their pictures to friends and family. As soon as Flickr hit the mainstream, more and more newbies, as well as full-fledged geeks, took their photo collections online. Thanks [...]
December 28, 1732
Under the psuedonym “Richard Saunders,” Benjamin Frankline published “Poor Richard’s Almanac” yearly from 1732 until 1757. It was a best seller in its day, with an annual circulation of about 10,000. It contained a calendar, weather, poems, astronomical and astrological information, and a forum for Franklin’s wit. [...]
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