Archive | October, 2007

Revolutionary New Microsoft User Interface

The engineers and interaction designers at Microsoft must be seriously pissed at marketing today. Behold, the latest user interface design from Microsoft. Technorati Tags: Microsoft, marketing, design, humor

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Technology is affecting our ability to remember things

Wired is running an article discussing how the effects of the BlackBerrys, cellphones, thumb drives and Gmail are affecting our memory. This summer, neuroscientist Ian Robertson polled 3,000 people and found that the younger ones were less able than their elders to recall standard personal info. When Robertson asked his subjects to tell them a [...]

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Organize your bookmarks efficiently with tags

In the stone age of PCs (circa. 2001), files were organized by filename and a hierarchy of file folders. If you wanted to retrieve a file, you needed to remember the filename and where you placed it. If you’ve ever tried to find something over a month old you quickly came to realize what an [...]

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Wrapping text around images in WordPress

WordPress has the ability to embed images into postings. You should give your site a little pizazz by adding images to your posts. However, the default behavior of these images is to just sit out there on their own. Not particularly appealing. By adding a simple CSS attribute to your tag you can improve the [...]

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Simple command checks for secret Internet connections.

Has you PC been turned into a zombie? One way to find out is to log your internet connections to see what activity has occurred. There are a number of tools available to do this, however, Windows comes with a free command line utility which is described here. The program, netstat, displays active network connections [...]

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