Netbeans 6.8 Available
It’s one of my favorites for web site work as well as use as a programmer’s platform, and it’s available for download.
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Text Browsing – w3m
While I started working online with a 300 baud modem and later operated a bulletin board at the same speed (eventually adding 1200 and then-oh joy!-2400!), I’m relatively new to Linux, and wasn’t even aware that w3m was available. Linux Magazine has a brief writeup on it, and I was amazed at how well it…
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Cell Phones Useful in Class?
Back in 1978-1979 I was in my final year of college and was teaching part time at a small private school. I have always been fascinated by electronics, and a bit of an early adapter. At that time, the big technology issue for classrooms was the use of calculators. If children used calculators in class,…
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No Real Market for Linux Desktops
Jason Hiner of TechRepublic, in an article titled The market has rejected Linux Desktops. Get over it shows that Linux market share in desktop computing has hung in the +/- 1% ranger for a decade and suggests this is unlikely to change very much. He cites a number of reasons, but I think the most…
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Document Conversion Online
Boulders 2 Bits provides a link to Media Convert, which has a huge selection of document conversions you can perform online. I haven’t worked with it yet, but it’s definitely in my bookmarks.
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Twiangulate for Twitter
Those who look for relevant people to follow should love the new tool Twiangulate. It allows you to enter two or three people of interest to you, and get a list of people that they all follow. It’s a fairly simply concept but it can produce some interesting results. For example, just as a test…
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Ricoh MP W2400 with Windows Vista
One of my clients uses this wide format printer. After switching to Vista on his work station he had intermittent problems printing. The print job would do everything normally, but simply would not print or show up in the queue, and no error was generated. We still had a Windows XP machine on the same…
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Linkedin and Twitter Get Together
You can no cross-post updates.
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Grocery Shopping Again
A while back I wrote a post on how to save when shopping for groceries (Grocery Shopping 101). Yesterday I encountered another example of one of the things I mentioned. Grocery placement on the shelves is not for your convenience. It’s intended to get you to buy things that make the grocery store more profit….
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Cars Driving Themselves
According to this MSNBC.com article, we could be seeing them over the next few years. The development is basically evolutionary, as driver aids are incorporated into more and more cars. The reason this story caught my eye was that a friend of mine and I approached one of the manufacturer’s representatives at a computer show…