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- Presidential transparency A few years ago, I got to cover President Clinton's Digital Divide tour with a camera crew from ON24. We were the first webcast news organization invited to cover a president. After it was over, having stood 90 feet away from the President for three days, I told the White House Press Office to have us back when there was a chance to do some coverage that wasn't more of the same passive consumption of orchestrated appearances, but we'd pass in the meantime. (You wouldn't believe what a ticket on Air Force One or Press One costs news organizations). Maureen Dowd today has a piece on political blogging. |
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Book 'em (Aug 13 2003 21:59 GMT) - Although this is in the Pocket PC category, it really isn't exclusive to that gadget. All you need is the free Microsoft Reader program (which happens to be available for the Pocket PC too). Every week Microsoft is giving away Free e-books on their Microsoft Reader site. All in all, 60 books will be given away over the 20 week... |
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- Aug. 13 - Actor Brad Garrett of CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond" does not intend to return to work on the hit comedy until he receives a salary increase. |
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- Aug. 13 - Two men have sued Sean "P. Diddy" Combs for $25 million each, claiming that a security team at the rap mogul's recording studio attacked them for no reason. |
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- Aug. 12 - Ashton Kutcher gave Jay Leno some good joke lines about his May-December romance with Demi Moore. |
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- Aug. 13 - The New York Post reports that Luther Vandross is making remarkable strides since his recent stroke, having regained 90 percent of his speech. |
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- Yes, thanks for the heads up Yogimel. I'm still learning |
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- Thanks Mark in the comments for pointing this out: As long as we're talking hot numbers .... DeanforAmerica.com has set a traffic record today, according to Alexa.com. |
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- The LucasArts Website (thanks ToTheGame) has word that Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is gold, and the Force-wielding shooter sequel is due in stores on September 17. They are promising a free... |
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- An Iraqi man who looted one of Saddam Hussein's bedrooms is claiming his girlfriend was so impressed she married him. Omar Heder removed the mahogany bed, mattress and sheets from Saddam's five-storey palace in Baghdad |
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- Lotus Notes is a software owned by IBM and designed to operate as the main messaging and collaboration infrastructure for business. More than 100 million people world wide use Lotus Notes, including General Motors, Health Canada, Coca Cola, Kellogg's, Sherwin-Williams, New York State Health, Avery-Dennison, General Electric, The Gillette Company, the EPA, Lockheed Martin, INCANNA, The Hawaiian Public School Board, Avery Dennison, Hertz Rent-a-Car, the American Military, National Parks, and the MD Anderson Cancer Clinic. In fact, when 93 out of the top Fortune 100 companies use Lotus Notes for their messaging and collaboration infrastructure in 1998, I asked the question: "How do we make Lotus Notes more effective and easier to manage?" I developed Notes Profiler version 2. |
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- more tips from readers, including an online seminar on the benefits and process of using RAM disks to improve performance |
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- Carlton Hogan follows up on his original letter about Mac OS X music issues. |
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- two more charting applications, more about Tufte, and a tip about Tukey |
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- some continuing confusion about DVD-RW support in iDVD, and a trick to facilitate it |
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- online forum cuts through Campbell's chaff to turn up the real deal |
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- more on Edit Original and Benson Young's review, plus inexplicable 3-month update wait |
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- Loud Animation Studio offers onion-skinning, "flicker" camera previews, a multi-track timeline, graphic waveforms of audio in the timeline for accurate synching of animated characters, color correction, and other features. |
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- MediaVault enables you to create a 'multimedia repository' to store versions of multimedia files. |
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- SubRosaSoft's new MailGuardian blocks spam and selectively forwards mail from POP3 servers. |
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- WiebeTech released the MicroGB800, a FireWire 800 version of its MicroGB+ pocket drives. |
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- FireWire Depot announced the IF8C, a new dual drive internal Firewire 800 bridgeboard, which converts two IDE/ATAPI devices into IEEE-1394b/FireWire800. |
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- Microsoft released a Virtual PC for Mac Version 6.1 Update that fixes an incompatibility problem between Virtual PC and the Apple Airport Extreme card, fixes an issue that prevented users from properly drawing arcs in Java version 1.4.1, and makes other minor changes. |
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- REALbasic 5.2.1 is a free maintenance update, available now for downloading. |
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- DEVONtechnologies' personal knowledge base and content management environment adds a checkbox option in list, note pad, and outline views, syntax coloring for HTML and XML, zoom in and out, an improved HTML parser, faster updating of database files on quit and autosave, and many other changes. |
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- SetDesigner is intended to aid in the design and visualization of theatrical sets, through sizing and arranging predefined common elements of sets (for example, platforms and flats), and defining paint schemes for these objects. |
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- KeyWebX converts Keynote or AppleWorks presentations into web pages by taking a generated PDF or QuickTime file, slicing it into separate images, and making simple HTML pages for browsing the images or simply generating JPEG, PNG, or PSD (Photoshop) images instead. |
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- Melissa Chambers, from Microsoft's PR company, followed up on compatibility issues with Virtual PC and Apple's upcoming Power Mac G5. |
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- Yesterday's discussion about Mac compatibility problems with the AAA website brought some more information about the problem. |
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- HP echoes and expands upon Apple's themes with its major new initiative. |
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- Here's the information on the worm that took over 120,000 Windows computers in its first 24 hours, giving Mac users network headaches as its Internet activity exploded. |
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- Mac Warehouse suggests that some customers should go for Power Mac G4s rather than G5s. |
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- Aug. 13 - A suspected arms dealer who thought he was selling a missile to a terrorist bent on shooting down an airliner was arraigned on federal charges Wednesday. |
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- Aug. 13 - President Bush said Wednesday "we're upbeat" about the economy despite soaring budget deficits and a frustratingly high unemployment rate. |
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- Aug. 12 - The LA Times is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger has fired his top strategist and brought in aides to former Gov. Pete Wilson. |
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- Aug. 12 - Scott Peterson's attorneys and forensic experts are examining the remains of Laci Peterson and the couple's unborn son in Martinez. |
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- Aug. 13 - Actor Brad Garrett of CBS' "Everybody Loves Raymond" does not intend to return to work on the hit comedy until he receives a salary increase. |
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- Aug. 13 - Two men have sued Sean "P. Diddy" Combs for $25 million each, claiming that a security team at the rap mogul's recording studio attacked them for no reason. |
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- Aug. 12 - Ashton Kutcher gave Jay Leno some good joke lines about his May-December romance with Demi Moore. |
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- Aug. 13 - An oil tanker that ran aground off Karachi's coast has developed cracks in its hull and is threatening to break apart and spill thousands of tons of oil. |
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- Aug. 13 - With just one year to go before the opening of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, a special ceremony was held in Lausanne on Wednesday. |
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- Mondays at 9pm beginning Sept 8. |
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- Cool site about the sesond season Angel on DVD with pictures,a message board,and contest.You have to join first but it's worth it. [ edited by SpikeBad on 2003-08-13 23:55 ] |
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- Aug. 13 - An oil tanker that ran aground off Karachi's coast has developed cracks in its hull and is threatening to break apart and spill thousands of tons of oil. |
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- Aug. 13 - With just one year to go before the opening of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, a special ceremony was held in Lausanne on Wednesday. |
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- Human relations are particular. I form connections to X, Y and Z based on their (and my) goals, qualities and situations. Such things vary endlessly, so human relations vary endlessly as well, in ways that can't be controlled or even... |
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- *long howl of lust* While I was on the pill, I forgot how ravenous I am, especially when my body... |
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- Aug. 13 - Two men have sued Sean "P. Diddy" Combs for $25 million each, claiming that a security team at the rap mogul's recording studio attacked them for no reason. |
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