June 26, 2007 11:14 AM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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Mobile,
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Storage,
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One of WhatIs.com's faithful readers wrote in recently with a suggestion for a much-beloved IT sniglets...
June 11, 2007 12:38 PM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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Google,
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Internet,
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usefulI'll admit it: I'm a frequent Googler. I Google from the office, when I need to research new terms for WhatIs. I Google from home, when I need information about events, people, tide charts or news. These days, I'm Googling from the car and train as well, enabled by the handheld attached to my belt...
June 5, 2007 9:39 AM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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Security,
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usefulI've been using different online freemail ever since I left the comfort of my collegiate email account. Hotmail and Yahoo were the default options back in the mid-90s when I graduated and, for many years, despite the increasing spam, I stuck with them.
When .Mac...
May 29, 2007 3:31 PM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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Class,
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Internet,
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usefulEvery now and then, I'm lucky enough to meet one of our readers in person, outside of comment sections, forums, email, IM or other virtual interactions.
It's always a pleasure to get such direct feedback. When I asked what she liked (and didn't like) about this blog, she mentioned that she...
May 24, 2007 9:19 AM
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
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usefulSeriously. One of the top articles on Lifehack.org this month is 10 simple ways to save yourself from messing up your life. Here's an...
May 9, 2007 4:21 PM
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
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usefulNetvibes.com is a terrific, highly customizable start page . It comes with some defaults but you can change just about anything on the page to get whatever you want to see first when you log in.
April 23, 2007 4:03 PM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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Audio,
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Juice Receiver is an
April 23, 2007 3:02 PM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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In the latest installment in our continuing exploration of "Google Office," we submit Google Notebook as our latest discovery.
April 17, 2007 10:10 PM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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Microsoft,
Office,
tool,
useful,
XMLOne of our colleagues over at SearchWinIT, senior news writer Christina Torode, reports that the Microsoft and Novell partnership is starting to bear fruit. The OpenXML Translator, which lets users open and save documents in both OpenXML and ODF, has moved out of beta and can now be downloaded from...
Up until the wonderful moment that my camera was exposed to the wonders of North Atlantic wave action a few weeks ago, I'd enjoyed over half a decade of great digital pictures from my...
