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Most online mapping applications have a built-in distance calculator to help you quickly measure the road distance between any two cities or any two points within a city.
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Measure the Air and Road Distance Between Cities with Bing Maps
This is a quick tip for people who have a wireless mouse that connects to the computer through a USB dongle (also known as a receiver). When Your Mouse Stops Working You are working on your computer and the wireless mouse suddenly freezes up.
O’Reilly Media , publishers of the popular cookbooks and the ‘Missing Manual’ series, have released a list of their best selling computer and programming related books for the previous week. Book sales figures, they say , are a good indicator of “technology trends.” If that’s true, we pretty much know what software and programming languages are currently popular among consumers and developers respectively.
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The Best Selling Computer Books at O’Reilly
Autodesk’s Sketchbook Pro , a Pogo stylus and loads of creativity – that’s all David Newman uses to draw such impressive portraits of people with his iPad. David, who previously worked as a newspaper court artist, has covered popular tech events including Twitter’s Chirp conference, PayPal DevCamp, Startup Weekend and Google’s IO with his iPad. You can see his entire collection of iPad paintings on flickr.com
There are quite a few software tools that let you access your home or work computer from any another computer simply over the Internet. Some of the these tools even provide mobile apps so you can control your remote desktop using an iPhone or a BlackBerry.
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Monitor your Computer Remotely with Dropbox
If you are running a more recent version of Windows, you may have noticed that program windows, pop-up dialogs and error messages now have rounded edges and are partially transparent (Aero) so you can also easily see shades of the background through the glass-like borders. For instance, if I were to capture a screenshot of the Notepad window above using the good old Print-Screen key, the built-in Windows snipping tool or an old version of SnagIt, the captured image will look something like this. The pink shades in the Notepad window were really looking good when the whole background was visible but with the Flamingos now gone, you also don’t feel like having that color in the captured window.
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10 Free Licenses of SnagIt 10 Up for Grabs
If you have a photocopier in your office that you and your colleagues have been using for years to make paper copies of important documents, here’s an important fact that may surprise some of you. Photocopiers Have a Hard-Disk Most photo copy machines, and even the newer all-in-one print-copy-scan-fax machines, have a built-in hard drive that stores a digital image of nearly every document that’s copied or scanned through these machines.
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Photocopy Machines in the Office may have your Personal Data
There’s a nice “photo memories” feature in Facebook now that highlights old photographs from your friend’s photo albums in case you missed seeing any of them previously. Facebook has around 500+ million users who spend over 500 billion minutes per month on the site and little changes like this one will obviously push that number up even further.
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Photo Memories in Facebook
While Apple Inc. has focused its sales of the iPad in the West on home users, the most interesting market for iPad-like tablet devices in India could be small businesses and start-ups. Many of these businesses outside India’s tech …
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How the iPad Model Can Work in India – India Real Time – WSJ
This is probably the cutest Twitter app ever. Just put your Twitter username (or any other search phrase) in IsParade.jp and the app will create an animated parade of the search results with some good marching band music (though you may want to reduce the volume a bit). The animation is interactive so you can click the faces of anyone marching in the parade and it will pop-up the associated tweet in a bubble
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See Twitter as an Animated Parade – Very Nice!
Movies often carry ratings like “U”, “PG” or “R” to help parents know if there’s anything in the film that may not be suitable for viewing by their children. A similar rating system exists in YouTube as well but for advertisers.
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Content Ratings Appear on Some YouTube Videos
A wireless network makes life more comfortable because you can access the Internet from virtually every corner of your home without any cables. The downside is obvious – you can’t stop the radio signals from going out of the house. That means, if you haven’t enabled security of your wireless router, someone in the neighborhood can easily piggyback on your WiFi connection
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Protect Your Home WiFi to Avoid the Risk of Copyright Infringement
There are certain files and folders in Windows that you can only access when you are logged in as the administrator of that computer. For instance, if you ever need to block a website on your home computer through the hosts file, your would require administrative privileges. Similarly, you may not be able to execute all the commands at the command prompt if you not logged in as the admin
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How to Edit Files That Require Admin Privileges
Max’s vast experience as a community engagement practitioner, combined with the fact that he’s used our product, means he’s ripe for the picking when it comes to answering people’s online engagement questions. Max Hardy has been with Twyfords for the past 13 years and a respected specialist in community engagement for just over 20
If you have a bunch of old CDs and DVDs lying discarded around the house, here are some interesting ideas for things you can do with your collection of shiny disks. Instead of throwing them away, you can reuse old CDs for craft, as a holder for mobile phones or even a flower arrangement. [*] Click here if your feed reader doesn’t support videos
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10 Things You Can Do With Old CDs
There are dozens of online invoicing tools out there that can help freelancers and businesses quickly generate invoices for their clients – some of these apps can even track the status of payments made against the invoice. The workflow is nearly paperless – you create an invoice on the computer and the system will send it to your client via email. Now this works just fine in most cases but sometimes you may have customers who haven’t gone digital yet
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Send Printed Invoices through the Post with Zoho
While you can use images of virtually any size as backgrounds for your mobile phone or your computer desktop, it’s always a good idea to download wallpapers that exactly match the screen resolution as then the screen won’t cut any parts of you beautiful wallpaper nor the image will be stretched to fit the screen.
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Find Perfect-Sized Wallpapers for your Mobile and Desktop with Bing
Warringah Council are using Bang the Table’s online engagement platform EngagementHQ to help to plan for the future of Warringah Oval – the home of the Manly Sea Eagles NRL team. Warringah Council owns and manages Brookvale Park, which includes Brookvale Oval. ‘Brookie’ needs a cash injection for major capital renewal works if it is to continue as the home of the Manly Sea Eagles in the long term.
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EngagementHQ helping to determine the future of Brookvale Oval – home of the Manly Sea Eagles
Warringah Council are using Bang the Table’s online engagement platform EngagementHQ to help to plan for the future of Warringah Oval – the home of the Manly Sea Eagles NRL team. Warringah Council owns and manages Brookvale Park, which includes Brookvale Oval
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EngagementHQ helping to determine the future of Brookvale Oval – home of the Manly Sea Eagles
This week Bang the Table forfeited what would have been a large contract with a marquee client by refusing to pre-moderate comments. By pre-moderation I refer to the practice of the moderator reviewing and either approving, deleting or editing all comments before they are displayed on the site
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Why Bang the Table will not pre moderate comments