Thursday, March 30, 2006

The Facts About MySpace

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Even if your children don’t have an account, they’ve certainly heard enough about it through word of mouth. The latest hangout for tweens and teens isn’t the mall in downtown or any particular club, but rather the chaotic world of cyberspace, at a website called MySpace.com. As the hottest social networking site on the web, MySpace has accumulated an estimated 54 million users in just three years of existence, with many users falling within the teen and twenty-something crowds and approximately 19% under the age of 17. MySpace is a wonderful place to meet others of like mind and interest, but with this sharing of interests come other dangers that are heightened by the unregulated nature of the Internet and the ready availability of personal information online.

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

FRS Radios for Geeks

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With Instant Messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP), Short Message Service (SMS), and dozens of other computer-based communications acronyms stuffed in your Geek memory, how about this one – FRS? I’ll give you a hint - it doesn’t run on your computer, but it’s a way to stay hooked up with your buddies that you shouldn’t pass up.

Sometimes, you need to stay in touch with your family or a bunch of friends instantly, but don’t have your computer screen in front of you to IM. Cell phones are fine to talk to one person, but how do you hail a group of people right now? You might have overlooked FRS, or just don’t know really what it’s about. Let’s take a look.

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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Print Your Snaps With PictBridge

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We all like taking lots of photos of our family and friends everywhere we go. Some of us still have to wait for the fat envelope full of prints to arrive from the photo-processing house to see how our snapshots came out. But, most of us Geeks have long since switched to digital still cameras and can instantly see the results on the tiny LCD screen on the camera. What is missing is a photograph on a piece of paper. It’s somehow more satisfying to shuffle through a stack of prints.

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Thursday, March 09, 2006

Ergonomics of Computer Pointing Devices

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Being the dedicated geek that I am, I spend a lot of time with my face in the computer screen. Much of that time, I am driving a cursor around the screen using a pointing device of some kind. In this installment, I want to talk about the long-term physical effects of computer pointing, in other words, the ergonomics of riding a mouse.

We will look closely at how to use a computer-pointing device for maximum comfort and minimum wear-and-tear on your arm and shoulder. This is not something to ignore unless you want to be too crippled in your geek old age. Don’t laugh, it really happens, as I will personally relate.

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