What your Wi-Fi spills in public?
What your Wi-Fi spills in public? Logging on to a free Wi-Fi hot spot is a definite perk of the wireless age–unless it gets you slapped with a…
10 Tips for Boosting your Microsoft Word 2007 Productivity
Use Word 2007’s new Reading Highlight feature to highlight words in your document If you’ve ever wished you could use Word’s Find feature to search for a particular…
Detect hard disk failures before they happen
Detect Drive Failure Before It Happens Hack Monitor the condition of your disk drives for predictions of failure.Roughly 60% of all disk drive failures are mechanical in nature—fromspindle-bearing…
How Do I… Convert an MPEG video file into Flash video?
Converting an MPEG, AVI or QuickTime video is a simple process that involves using Adobe’s Flash Video Encoder, a separate program which installs on your hard drive in…
A first look at the new iPod Nano from Apple
The new iPod Nano flash multimedia player from Apple packs a ton of features into a very limited space. A little wider than the original Nano device, this…
Next generation wireless from WiMAX World 2007
This Sony ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) included a non-production WiMAX adapter with a live connection to the upcoming Sprint/Motorola WiMAX network in Chicago. This press demo was hosted by…
Five reasons why the mobile Web still doesn’t work
Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 has a nice synopsis of why trying to surf Web pages from a mobile phone is so frustrating. His observations are pretty consistent…
Microsoft Excel 2007
Calculation Issue Update Yesterday we were alerted to an issue in Excel 2007 (and Excel Services 2007) involving calculation of numbers around 65,535. The Excel team would like…