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Windows Mojave Sucks. Internet Explorer Help Menu Found
Lately, I’ve seen more than my share of commercials telling me that Windows Mojave (a/k/a Vista) doesn’t suck. But it does. At least the version of Internet Explorer that comes bundled with Windows Vista. My #1 gripe with Internet Explorer 7 is that it breaks all the rules, and not in a good way. For…
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Beijing China Olympics 2008 Souvenirs
The Beijing Olympics have begun. Or, as the Beijing 2008 website notes: “-4 days to go.” Humorous if you know computer programmers, I guess. Once an event has started, turn off the countdown clock. I found the opening ceremony to be absolutely breathtaking in scope, precision and theatrics. More than once, I stared at the…
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Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M Scanning Tips
I use the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M to scan checks before I deposit them at the bank. Later, when I’ve downloaded my transactions into Quicken and want to identify where the money came from, I can pull up the PDF and review all the checks. While the ScanSnap works quite well when scanning documents of the…
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Asian Art Museum – Ming Dynasty Exhibit
The Asian Art Museum is hosting a special exhibition entitled Power and Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty from June 27-September 21, 2008. Fortunately, Target sponsors a Free First Sundays program that opens admission to the museum for free on the first Sunday of every month. This past Sunday being a “first Sunday,” I…
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Dreaming of the Good Life
Yahoo! News reports that a homeowner that received a brand new house courtesy of Extreme Makeover is now facing foreclosure. The homeowners had taken out a business loan and used the house as collateral. Unfortunately, their construction business failed. Of course, every businessperson plans to succeed. Most people don’t plan to fail, but failure inevitably…
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Bandwidth Throttling is Comcastic
Whenever I have the radio on, I inevitably will hear a Comcast commercial talking about their high-speed broadband services. However, I think they’ve wasted all the money they spent on that commercial because the EFF reported that Comcast interferes with their user traffic. So, the message that I get is that Comcast will charge a…
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Starbucks Vivanno
When I think smoothie, I think Jamba Juice. I find that the taste and texture of their smoothies are spot on every time. Their smoothies remain nice and thick long after I have departed the store. I really wish the frappuchino drinks at Starbucks had a similar consistency. Occasionally the frappuchinos are well mixed. However,…
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Palo Alto Fire
Yesterday, I spotted this fire while biking through the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve. When I tried to call 911 to report the fire, I was placed on hold for much too long before I simply gave up. If you are considering terminating your land line at home and going 100% cellular, keep in mind…
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Macintosh Video Thumbnails
I use Apple’s Grab application to take screenshots. Naturally, when I needed to grab a preview frame from a video, I followed my usual workflow: open video, pause video, select frame, grab video window, copy video window, open image editing application, paste, etc. Then, I read this and realized I was doing it all wrong.…
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Midomi is a Fun iPhone App
Last Thursday, I downloaded several iPhone apps in anticipation of the iPhone 2.0 release. Once iTunes upgraded my iPhone and synced all the apps, I finally had a chance to test some of them. I really like Midomi because it is both fun and free. Just sing a few bars from a song and it…