2006 June

I swear, I’m not leaving anybody out intentionally (if I do, I will edit the post if corrected appropriately). I hate naming names because I really want to give everybody credit for the help they’ve given us for Gnomedex 6 activities. If your name gets left out, I promise to make it up to you. […]

Calling all Mahjong and Solitaire lovers! Play Poker Pop and enjoy tile matching with a globe-hopping twist!
Create winning poker hands and avoid perils to make it through your global journey. Gain powerups, collect souvenirs and send postcards home as you travel through Australia, Fiji, Japan and more!
The fun never stops as you choose […]

HSSVSS is a monition detection system that can be used for video surveillance of your home or office. It displays full-screen video from your Web cam or other capture device and offers a customizable detection zone and sensitivity levels to fine-tune the motion detection.
If the program senses a motion, it automatically captures an image, […]

Search engines are fantastic tools for finding information that has already been categorized as relevant to what you’re interested in, but this decision process is carried out by machines, not humans. Sure, the algorithms that they use to determine this are very advanced, but they’re not always perfect. It must be noted that some search […]

For the past month I’ve been “testing” Carbonite, a new automatic backup service that stores your critical files online. I use quotes because it’s pretty hard to test a backup service like this without first needing to do a backup. Since one of my fondest desires - not to say plans - is to avoid […]

Kathy writes:
How do I locate my teenager’s password on Windows XP? When we got the new computer she set herself up as the administrator (password protected) and I have recently determined she has been in sites inappropriate for a teen. However, I can’t remove her as an administrator and limit what she can […]

If you are an Excel user, you already know that when you press Enter, the cursor does not move to a cell to the right, it moves to the cell below. This can be an annoyance to some if you continually press Enter but then have to move the cursor into the correct cell.
You […]

Man has fished since earliest antiquity.
And while all forms of sport fishing are beautiful in their own right, none is as elegant, challenging, and artistic as fly fishing.
Today’s Family First pick is the online presence of the American Museum of Fly Fishing, located in Manchester, Vermont. Here’s its mission:
The American Museum of Fly Fishing, home […]

Gnomedex 6.0 Fever is here! In preparation for their treatment, here’s how some of its victims are coping.

Definitively erase and destroy any Windows folder or file using low level overwrite and standard procedures:

US Department of Defense DOD 5220.22-M (5 overwrites)
Guttmann (32 overwrites)
Complex (3 overwrites)
Simple (1 overwrite)
With NShred you can eliminate confidential information and data from PC drives. Name, size, contents of erased file or folder can never be […]

Synergy is an Open Source software that enables you to share a single mouse and keyboard with multiple other machines that are connected via a TCP/IP network. You can simply move your mouse off the edge of your main screen to enter the screen of a secondary computer to the left or right of you. […]

E-mail has done a lot to improve the speed and effectiveness of communication, but for every advancement, it seems like we take two steps back. Yes, e-mail has done great things, but it’s also exposed us to unbelievable amounts of spam, it’s caused people to scale down their personal communication, and just because you can […]

I’ve nothing against the French, being half Breton myself, along with a lot of other Celtic ancestors. This comes down to a matter of scale, however, that I doubt the French government will be able to handle.
When Google launched Google Earth, it was already operating tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of its own specially […]

Outlook 2003 has a great notification feature for new messages. A small pop-up window will appear above the notification area that has a quick summary of the new message. You can click this pop-up to read the message right away. The problem is that you have to be quick because the pop-up only appears very […]

When you receive a new email message in Outlook 2003, a small envelope appears in the notification area. This is one of the notification methods Outlook uses to alert you to new email. If you frequently check your Inbox for messages and do not require a notification, you can prevent Outlook from displaying the envelope.

Within […]

Have you heard of Spore?
Spore is the next big thing from game whiz Will Wright.
It’s due to be released in about a year, but the hype is already flowing like beer at a frat party.
With that in mind, today’s Family First pick is a site that gets the juices flowing about the upcoming rage that […]

Even in the high speed world we live in today, sending large files can still be a pain. It would be better if we could break these large files up into smaller files. That is what HJSplit brings to the dance. HJSplit will split your large files into smaller ones and it […]

My family is famous for our respect for food, and I’m no exception. If we’re not eating it, then we’ll find a way to slide the topic into a conversation. With so many culinary choices available to us, there’s definitely no shortage of tasty treats to snack on. Just talking about the mere idea of […]

Last week I wrote about some of the issues that come up when seniors (or almost any group) set out to learn digital photography. None of the issues are totally new. Taking a lot of pictures to develop the skills, and maintaining a good filing system are common to both chemical and digital photography. The […]

When you view a slide show in PowerPoint, the last slide to appear in the show is a black slide. The black slide appears with the text “End of slide show - click to exit.” This functionality is optional. If you prefer, you can return to PowerPoint immediately after the last slide in your presentation. […]