2008 July

By no means am I obsessed with making notes, but I do have a few documents and online services that I use to record bits and pieces of various thoughts and ideas that I have. It’s important to jot this information down for future reference, and the way in which you record notes is immaterial [...]

As the last remaining pilot of a ruined space research station, you must help rebuild the station’s defenses, acquire alien technology and create your own uniquely configured set of fighters.
By mining the asteroids within the grid dimension, valuable resources can be harvested for fuel and weaponry. Uncover the terrible purpose of the evil Archnid [...]

Songbird is a media browser and Web player built from Firefox, VLC Player, and SQLite. Songbird is open source and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions.
Version 0.6 adds better support for large libraries, smoother scrolling through libraries, faster filtering, speedier search, improvement memory managment, and new features like metadata writing, better MTPSync support, and the [...]

I especially appreciated the Mojave Experiment that Microsoft recently shared with the world (where Vista-negative opinions were tested with a “new” version of Windows, code-named Mojave; it was then revealed to the participants after seeing the new version that what they were looking at was actually Vista). I’ve been using Vista since well before I [...]

Absolutely amazing quality on this USB microscope.
I’ve put everything from a fly to hairs from my head under this thing. It’s powerful and lightweight… and the clarity is just astounding.
Full video at Expo TV.

Luxo 18719RB-USBSR System 350RB-RLIXUSBSR Stereo Zoom Trinocular with Ball-Bearing BoomStand, Fiber Optic Ring Light and USB 2.0 Camera
Dino Lite Digital Microscope Magnifier
USB [...]

Word lets you link information from other sources in your document. When you receive a document that has linked information from other application, you may want to identify the source of the link to view the information in that application.
You can easily identify the source of a linked item using the steps below:

Double-click on [...]

Amazon is thrilled to offer The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling, available for pre-order now. This book of fairy tales was written to supplement the Harry Potter series and will be published in two new editions on December 4, 2008.
Standard and Collector’s Editions
The Standard Edition features all five fairy tales from the [...]

Thanks to the Internet, file formats aren’t nearly as big of a deal as they used to be. Granted, there are still numerous formats for almost every kind of file that you can imagine, but the Internet is the equalizer. We have services that can stream videos in many different formats online, and we also [...]

Help Vicki meet a real challenge!
In Fitness Frenzy, YOU are a fitness trainer. You get to help people get fit and feel great. You also get to work with all sorts of people - from newbie joggers to muscle-bound weight lifters. Teach them how to work out and reach their ultimate goals.
A great [...]

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Its target is to recognize and extract the most possible amount of information about computer’s hardware, which makes it suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, and system integrators.
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