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2006 November

Tips for Buying Gifts for Geeks

You’ve already reviewed my gift guide, but I wanted to give y’all a little more guidance before you continued to do any more holiday shopping. If you’re a geek, you’ll completely understand where I’m coming from - and if you’re not a geek, then there are a few things you should know about gifts for [...]

Dress Up Your Desktop For The Holidays

These desktop themes (as recommended by PC World) include coordinated wallpaper, screensavers, cursors, recycle bins, and more. Make Martha Stewart jealous.
Autumn Brook
A very serene theme featuring Fall images of leaves and mountain streams.
Holiday Wrapping Papers
A very slick holiday theme based on different types of gift-wrapping paper designs.
It’s Cold Outside
A holiday hit inspired by the song [...]

Zodiac Tower

Explore more than 100 mysterious rooms in Zodiac Tower… an intriguing puzzle adventure!
Rumor holds that there are ten pieces of a mysterious ancient mechanism hidden throughout the tower walls that, when put together, will allow people to travel to the moon and distant stars! Find these pieces and the mechanism is yours… but be [...]

Nuvvo

I always enjoy learning something new. In fact, thanks to the Internet, I’m able to learn something new every few seconds. While I try to remain a student in many respects, I also like to take up the position of a teacher, and in my work, I’m routinely called upon to help people figure out [...]

Carbonite To The Rescue!

Late Saturday night my home PC started acting up, and when I rebooted, neither Zone Alarm Pro nor NOD32 would run. Attempting to run either just put the PC into a loop that required a reboot. Starting in safe mode without either security program (and the DSL modem unplugged) resulted in things working just fine [...]

The Red Wine Blood Pressure Experiment

Call me the intrepid reporter, but I’ve become absolutely fascinated by the whole red wine-blood pressure connection. So fascinated that I’ve devised a little experiment, in real time. I’m going to take my blood pressure before and after imbibing a couple of glasses of red wine tonight, and post photos of the blood pressure monitor, [...]

Use Stationery In Your Windows Mail Messages (Vista)

If you use Windows Mail to communicate with family and friends, you can use stationery to liven up your messages. When you add stationery to a message, a fancy background is placed behind the actual message. I personally feel that it is more of a fun thing to do and would generally not consider using [...]

Create Message Rules In Windows Mail (Vista)

Rules are very useful for managing high volumes of messages. For example, instead of having them all end up in your Inbox, you can create rules that will sort incoming messages and place them in different folders.
You can create rules in Windows Mail (included with Vista), using the steps outlined below.

Open Vista.

Click the [...]

A Geek’s Wish List

You might have seen my faux holiday wish list in the recently-published issue of CPU Magazine: (1) World peace; (2) True instant messaging platform interoperability; (3) The death penalty for spammers and spyware vendors; (4) An end to DRM; (5) Windows Vista Visual Service Pack 1; (6) OS X on non-Apple hardware; (7) A mobile [...]

3D Christmas Set 2

This set contains three 3D Christmas screensavers: 3D Magic Christmas Toy Shop, 3D Christmas Puppies and Kittens, and 3D Interactive Holiday Candles. The download link to 3D Magic Christmas Toy Shop is delivered immediately and the other two are sent in a follow-up email within a few hours.
For more information or to try other [...]

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