Cliff on February 22nd, 2007

Here is a little video from SuperNews (http://www.current.tv/supernews). It’s a comical take on the rivalry between the Mac and the PC.

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Cliff on January 7th, 2007

While listening to the Net@Nite podcast (more info at TWIT.tv), found out about Ms. Dewey (http://www.msdewey.com/), a web search page (based on Microsoft Live Search, http://www.live.com/). Every time you make a search, Ms. Dewey makes a “witty” comment (sometimes very good, sometimes really bad). She also reacts if you leave her alone (“knocks” on the [...]

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Cliff on September 19th, 2006

I have two sets of del.icio.us links. Del.icio.us is an online social bookmarking site, useful for discovering new sites and pages and a good place to put bookmarks if you use multiple computers. The first one (thundros) is mainly used for personal links, whether they be tech related, fun links or just about anything I [...]

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Cliff on May 13th, 2006

I came across a nice free program online: Stellarium. It’s an open-source project (which can be found here) which re-creates a planetarium on your computer. You can set it to any location in the world and be able to see what the stars look like in the sky. Features include the ability to illustrate constellations, [...]

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Cliff on February 19th, 2006

There are a lot of image editing programs available today, some free (MS Paint) and some exorbitantly expensive (Photoshop) . One of them stands out as being feature rich (management of layers, support for diferent file formats) and free. Paint.NET (version 2.6 as of this writing) is an excellent MS Paint replacement and it can [...]

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