2006 October

Okay, so big news in the newsletter world, folks. Langa is merging with Livingston for a publishing powerhouse. I got the skinny straight from Brian’s digital mouth on Sunday:
I know you must be busy with a million things surrounding your move. But I hope you have time for a “leak” that I’d like you to […]

Lunabean’s Unofficial “Just Cause” Walkthrough and Strategy Guide covers every aspect of each of the 21 story missions. Although this game was underachieving and several of the missions were very easy, other missions were very difficult, especially that last one. In addition to detailing every mission, the walkthrough covers all menus and explains what the […]

The problem with most graphic editors out there today is that they either have too many features or not enough. There are too few programs that go down the middle of the road when it comes to power inside of an image editor. Well, one of the few that walks the line perfectly […]

Typically most word processing applications, Word included, displays text as black characters on a white background. Depending on the lighting within the area where your computer is located or the sensitivity of your eyes (possibly even personal preference), you may want to change the text color and background.
Word 2002 allows you to alternately have text […]

When you run a PowerPoint presentation, a black slide appears after your last slide. The black slide prompts you to click to exit your presentation. Once you click, you return to PowerPoint.
Optionally, you can configure PowerPoint not to display a black slide at the end of a presentation. This means you will immediately […]

Internet search has proven to be one of the most lucrative businesses in technology. Improving upon an already successful model, Zotspot today announced its official launch as the first Internet search engine to pay its users in cash for their normal search behavior. By using Zotspot as their primary search engine, users earn money and […]

I was reading ‘New Download’ when I spotted REOG Real Estate Offer Generator and I laughed.
As a retired real estate broker I know a real estate scam when I see one. Let me give you for free what they want to sell you for $20. Normally, to insure a good cash flow no professional investor […]

Techies, get ready to be scared out of your wits.
On Halloween, Comcast Corp., in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Lionsgate, will unveil a horror-movie network called FearNet. Fans will be able to watch movies through Comcast’s video-on-demand service and on the Web at FearNet.com, where they can blog about, search and tag the spooky […]

I finally saw The Nightmare Before Christmas! Well, kinda. I’ve watched the movie a thousand times on TV, but a local theater is currently showing it on the big screen in 3D! They hand you a pair of linear polarized 3D glasses and let you experience Tim Burton’s classic the way it was meant to […]

Find great music, brew your own beer, manage your art collection (no matter how small), burn CDs, play Hangman on your PC, try a slick screensaver with these files as selected by our friends at PC World!

3D Asteroids
Turn your computer display into the windshield of a rocket ship blasting into the outer reaches of the […]

Count Dracula has been kidnapped by the dreadful vampire hunter Doctor Lifelust! He plans to use vampire blood to create an elixir of life so he can live forever! Now it’s up to Dracula’s twins, Drac and Dracana, each with their own special moves and abilities, to bite back and save their father in this […]

I’ve been using Windows Live Writer (WLW) on two blogs for about a month, and haven’t found much not to like. The folks in Redmond need to keep an eye on whoever coded this application, because they’re going places.
Very briefly, WLW is a blogging editor and publisher from Micro$oft, a small […]

Anybody have a recommendation for a good GPS system? We went out for a drive on Sunday afternoon and got good and lost. I mean seriously lost. As per my usual pre-trip procedure, I tried to print a map from the Web before we left… alas, the printer hung up. Since we were in […]

Doug Eilers: “Disk Cleaner allows you to easily clean up disk space that is used by temporary files like those in the system temporary folder, the Internet Explorer Cache and Cookies folder, Recycle Bin and various other areas of your system. In addition, you can erase personal tracks like recently used documents, typed URLs and […]

Happy Halloween Weekend! With 3D Dancing Skeleton Screensaver, watch colorful animated 3D skeletons dance while bones, skulls, ghosts, jack-o-lanterns, and candles float nearby. Spooky MP3 music plays and, with the free demo, you can also play one MP3 music file of your own. Demo expires in seven days.
The registered version never expires, and doesn’t have […]

Democracy Player is an Internet video player that allows you to choose from a variety of channels, subscribe to video feeds, and view them with the integrated player. The channel guide includes more than 600 channels - mostly podcasts and user submitted video clips - and you can also add your own podcasts by entering […]

Q: If I buy a software program, how many machines can I install it on? I don’t want to be a software pirate, but I don’t understand the legal jargon either! - Tammy
A: Software companies have been wringing their hands about software piracy since the beginning of the PC revolution, but part of the problem […]

Lockergnome has been a labor of love, and a profitable business venture, for the past decade of my life. I’ve enjoyed seeing where it’s been, and I look forward to where it’s headed. But I’m about to take an extended leave of absence. You’ll completely understand why I’m doing so in just a few short […]

A2Z Word Puzzler creates puzzles and quizzes from word list files. These puzzles and quizzes can be used by children to improve their vocabulary and spelling skills. Since you can enter your own list of words, it is especially helpful with vocabulary and spelling lists assigned at school, and it can also be used with […]

Firefox Showcase is a Firefox add-on that enables you to navigate open tabs as thumbnail views of the actual Web site. It can run as a sidebar or in a special Showcase tab. You can configure it in various ways, view zoomed versions of the thumbnails on mouseover, close or activate a tab by clicking […]