MSDN blog has released free ebooks…again! Last time it was 80. This time? A whole new batch of free technical ebooks that cover everything from Windows 8, to Office 2013, to SQL Server, and much more. Each Ebook is pretty long…for IT pros and home users too. A million folks grabbed within 2 days…closing in on 2 million if not there already! There’s no need to rush, though. It’s not time limited as Eric Ligman (your genial host) points out. Most are in pdf format…go get...
Yes! We have a perigee moon. So, the second will occur on August 10th and the third on September 9th. On average, though they appear once every 13 moths and 18 days…so this year we’ve had a bumper crop! The moon will be 14% larger and 30% brighter than usual. To make it seem truly giant, catch it on the rise on the horizon. To calculate your moonrise and moonset simply go here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/moonrise.html\ For me it’ll be 9:07 pm.
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Grabilla might be the one for you… It gives you: Screenshots with editing capabilities (unfortunately, not blurring). Creating screencasts including voice. Animated GIF creation. It works on Windows, Mac and Linux as well…and it’s free. It has a user manual and an options window…with the ability to set hotkeys, where to save or publish. You can capture a defined area (rectangular), a full screen, or a program window, but no codec settings...
The Chinese (5 Chinese Army officers from Unit 61398) have been accused and indicted for stealing corporate secrets. The hacking the personnel records of Federal employees however hasn’t been officially attributed yet to them. This hasn’t deterred them at all. Their specific target this time seems to have been those who applied for “Top Secret” clearance. That comprises thousands of employees. The hacking occurred in March of this year. They apparently ...
Why? Because it’s a great way to make money. FileHippo is testing it now. Several download portals have started to use services like Open Candy in their installers to earn money. Remember when c|net undled home page switchers, toolbars and browser changers? Same song, different singer. You can read about the downloader here . “After launching the FileHippo Download Manager from your Downloads folder, just double click on the file that will be clearly named and then ...
Google has a good project ( Google Cultural Institute ) which allows you to tour great museums and see wonderful works of art, such as here . Yes, I chose “Meeting Street” for CarGuy1 and Daiwa. Imho, this is a great thing. So how do they do it? With “Street View” technology, but, using a ‘Dalek-oid’ robot draped in a weird cloak. Wait, it gets better. The robot likes taking weird ‘selfies’ in front of mirrors! This pretty much dispels the ‘Evil Skyn...
Besides being my late father’s birthday, the fourth of July means a very great deal to me. It means more than the fireworks, picnics, and barbeques; but yes, we should celebrate our Independence Day. We really should. We should also remember how brave those colonists were, what they endured: Their suffering, their hopes and dreams back then and all those who lived and fought for the greatest and most revolutionary words ever dared written by any people anywhere, ever: ...
This sounds very interesting: The purpose of this one is to unify OSs across devices. This comes from Google I/O. There will be changes to the UI (complete redesign…icons, colors, themes, sounds and fonts), “Notifications and the Lock Screen” - (notifications will appear on ‘cards’) and use a Motorola type HUD for urgent notifications. “Safe Place” – locations where your PIN won’t be necessary (like at home), but leave ther...
Came across a nice, useful article on an Oz edition news site… International Business Times . Anyway, let’s say there’s an app you absolutely love, an Android one and you have iOS or a Windows PC, especially with W8. Used to be you’d heave a sigh and that would be that. Not saying there aren’t excellent apps in the Windows store, just that some like say, ‘peaches’ more than ‘pears’. Now, Android apps can be used on Mac...
Who hasn’t this happened to? You generally find out when friends/family let you know they got an email from you that had ‘questionable’ content. Another way is you checking the ‘Sent’ box, or, you can’t access your account. So what do you do? This is just a general guide with some useful links which you might wish to use/save. 1. Don’t panic . Access to your email again (hackers generally don’t change passwords)…they generally just access it and send out a mass emai...
Although it’s been around for iPhones and Android for about four years, and for Windows 8/8.1 since last year, it has finally come to MS’s Windows Phone. Its features? Easy touch-ups Fix photos fast—crop, straighten, rotate, flip, adjust color, and remove red eye and pet eye. Adjust hue, brightness, white balance, and more with easy slider controls. Enhance in fun artistic ways with Looks like Vibrant, Superpunch, and Glow. Add a finishing to...
Verizon your provider? You can’t pay your bill? Not your fault. Turns out Verizon is having major problems with its billing software. The Northeast, Midwest and Southern regional customers are hitting a wall when trying to pay their bills. Worse? No ETA for a fix. Apparently this glitch isn’t affecting home phone systems or internet connection, but, if your bill is due right now, you could have problems. Engadget is tracking the problem, but so far no news of a fix...
Just saw this at gHacks.net , with a good review by Martin Brinkmann. There are some major changes. First, it’s supported on W7 SP1 and newer Windows OSs. So, if you have anything from before them, stick with the older version. The new one requires .NET Framework 4.5. It will be installed automatically when installing Paint.net 4.0 if not on the target machine already. “Paint.net 4.0 ships with a new rendering engine that supports multi-core processors and GPU hardware...
“When I'm gone, I hope there's a theater in the next world where I can work.” He was the son of Polish immigrants and grew up poor and Jewish in an Italian neighborhood of Brooklyn. His parents owned a candy store. After appearing in a school play at 15, he knew he would be an actor. He moved to Texas to attend the University of Texas in Austin. where he earned a B.A. and earned a Master's Degree in Education from CCNY. He won a sch...
Zuckerberg is changing Facebook’s privacy policy (again) in the very near future. Used to be, they would watch their more than 1 billion members’ activity closely on the site. Now they intend to watch your activity off their site as well. Facebook has announced that it will soon begin collecting data on off-site user activity , meaning that the social network will monitor the websites and apps you use when you're away from Facebook. In other words: if you frequently v...