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Category Archives: Computers and Internet
Windows Mobile Live Search Speech Recognition
A wonderful thing finally happened. The live search mobile app (in my opinion, one of the reasons to own a smartphone), now has speech recognition. On my old Cingular 2125, it was a huge pain to type in addresses, businesses. … Continue reading
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Computer for the kitchen?
[via on10] Interesting idea – but when’s the last time you looked at a well-used recipe book? Covered in various ingredients. Voice recognition perhaps? Even though I think there is a place for this kind of thing, and that a … Continue reading
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The Problem with Programming
This is a great article in which Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of the C++ programming language, defends his legacy and examines what’s wrong with most software code. (via Jason Pontin). Very interesting (bit long – but well worth reading)
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Google emails a worm
Hey, Apple gets to ship worms, it’s only fitting that Google emails them. I only wish Microsoft hadn’t done a similar thing a long time ago (but at least it was a long time ago). How often does this happen?!?
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Loading a registry hive for a computer that no longer boots
So the question came up today of how to export some keys from a system that doesn’t boot anymore. I think I learned this trick from a document by Jeffrey Belt on the shell team, but here’s the official documentation. … Continue reading
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WMI Tools
So I’ve been learning about some other tools for visualizing WMI. Most of them are centered around getting you some WMI code to run. That’s great, and I might eventually add some features like that, but I think that WMI … Continue reading
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Kanoodle makes me .33$
Well after a little bit, putting Kanoodle adds on my blog has made me .33$. Most of my readers are using RSS and they don’t show up there, so there are very few impressions anyway. But still – 33 cents … Continue reading
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Battlefield 2142 With a Dash of Spyware – Kotaku
Here’s more interesting news along the lines of Apple shipping a virus; EA ships spyware. But they did it deliberately. I have to give them credit for drawing attention to it so that users can be aware of the fact … Continue reading
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Whoa! Apple ships a windows virus
Apple Computer announced on Tuesday that a small number of video iPods released after Sept. 12 carry a Windows virus… Creative Labs had a similar problem a few years ago. Crazy. Be careful plugging in that new ipod.
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Pricing items on the internet – who can you trust?
So I was reading a discussion wondering if a great deal was a publicity stunt/loss leader or whether it was just a ripoff. As is often the case, it turned out to be likely a ripoff but I found out … Continue reading
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