From the monthly archives:

September 2009

12WBP!

September 28, 2009

12 weeks to better photography starts Oct 1.  http://myphotosucks.com/12-weeks.html

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Tuning up your PC

September 28, 2009

A common complaint among computer owners is that, over time, their computer starts to run slower.  There are a number of causes including hard drive fragmentation, registry fragmentation, registry errors, malware, general clutter and unnecessary start-up programs. Taken individually, most of these problems aren’t that serious. Windows is getting better at avoiding fragmentation, and the [...]

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Microvideo: The next big thing?

September 22, 2009

Twitter took blogging to microblogging.  Now sites like 12seconds.com and robo.to are introducing us to the concept of microvideo. The New York Times ran a great introductory article yesterday. What do you think? Will Microvideo become the new medium of choice, augment Twitter, or just fade away?

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LoJack for Laptops revisted

September 14, 2009

Last year I wrote about LoJack for Laptops, software that periodically checks in with a central server to help locate your laptop if it is stolen. One of the LoJack features that caught my attention is that, when installed on compatible computers, a bios agent is activated.  The bios agent is supposed to reinstall LoJack if the [...]

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What would you do?

September 2, 2009

The events Monday night in Toronto have the media and net buzzing.  (If you haven’t read about it yet, this Toronto Star article will get you started). While facts, opinions, observations, and premature conclusions dribble out in response to seemingly insatiable public curiosity, there is a question few are asking: What would you do? Incidents like this are [...]

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Evidence Eliminator is a bad idea

September 1, 2009

By now most of us know that when we delete a file from our computer it isn’t really gone – the space is merely marked as being available for reuse. Unlike in the physical world, where we can easily shred or burn documents we wish to dispose of (and put the others out in the [...]

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