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SnagIt! is also a very good screencap tool, but it's rather expensive.

I agree too; when I see something from a business, and the email address is given as an AOL address, or worse yet, Hotmail or Yahoo (both of which are fine for personal use), I take a step back.

There is no definitive answer to this question, because the answer depends on what your site is about. If you're seriously trying to start/run a business, and you have a very unique and valuable domain name idea, then registering it yourself directly would be the most sensible option. But if …

I have a question about that. Why is SQL Express a better choice than an Access database? Is it easier, better performing, more flexible or what? Or is it more a matter of personal preference? Also, if one distributes an app storing data in an SQL database, wouldn't the user …

An astute observation by "robgmills"; given the details, I think "hacks the UK Parliament" it a bit too strongly stated. Now if this precocious young lady had sat across the street in a drug store with a WiFi handheld and done this, I'd be both impressed and somewhat worried. But …

Borland has released some "Turbo Explorer" editions of it's development tools. I am wondering if anyone here can tell me (as objectively as possible) if the Delphi language is -"Better" -More powerful -Easier to learn -More Flexible -Able to create better performing apps Than C# (I am particularly referring to …

I spoke to a woman on a tech support call once, and she said "This thing popped up and said I had 875 viruses and that my computer was at risk, and to click this button to clean it, so I did and I paid the money, but I don't …

Is anyone aware of a nice, easy-to-use tool for creating a ribbon menu system in a C# application, that costs "considerably less" than $1000 or more?! I'm kind of wondering why Microsoft didn't include this in VS2010. I found a little thing called VRC (Visual Ribbon Creator), but it's pretty …

I have created an Access (2010, but converted to 2007) database and I am building a front end to it using C#. I can't figure out how to provide the user with the means to create a new instance of that database. The idea is that the user can create …

I have a combo box on a form (MainForm) that's bound to a column in a database table. I want this combo box to get it's list of selections from a second table (LocationsTable). Items are added or deleted from LocationsTable via a second form (frmLocations). If I have MainForm …

Some (not all, of course) of this kind of thing would be eliminated, or at least minimized, if companies put as much effort and sincerity into treating their employees fairly and right as they do enriching some of these CEO's to sit on their dead behinds all day.

After some very extensive research, I settled upon the Asus Eee 1000HA, mainly because of the 10" screen over the 8.9" and the large HDD. I am impressed with the quality. Acer prices are a little lower, but I have to agree with Peter_budo, I have read more poor reviews …

Thats encouraging news. Still, I have to wonder; $19 billion spent on Black Friday 2006, $20 billion in 2007. Does that actually translate in to more people buying more products, or does that simply reflect increased product costs, and in actuality far fewer people actually bought this year than last? …

Google, at least right now, is making money hand-over-fist. Given that, and assuming they don't think they have any reason to believe they won't continue to dramatically increase their profits over the reasonably foreseeable future, why would they sign on to such a limiting set of guidelines? If it were …

I think it's a good idea long term, resulting in even more job satisfaction, which should (and I think it would) keep productivity at high levels. In order to keep performance up, all a company would really need to do would be to make this a privilege and tie it …

It would seem that, by calling it an "entertainment launch", it would qualify to be compared against movies and books (particularly fictional books), which are also classified as entertainment. In that context, I'd consider the comparison valid, especially if the point is to draw attention to the popularity of the …

There is nothing more comfortable than warm sand packed in around one's ears. So, repeat after me... There. Are. No. Mobile. Phone. Viruses. There. Are No. Mobile. Phone. Viruses. There. Are. No...

Microsoft is simply doing the exact same thing IBM did back in mid-1995 (and I am surprised and taken aback that they would stoop to this). In order to try to convince a wary public that the then-latest release of OS2 was "catching on" (or had caught on), IBM announced …

So, in a sense, it seems that a powerful tool for protecting the intellectual property of developers is also a potent weapon being used by malefactors. Talk about the old "rock-and-the-hard-place"!

Where have you been? I've been paying less than $6 for domain names for about 4 years now, privacy-protected and very reliable. I think Google will succeed on name, but not price.

Great article! This makes it a little difficult to keep on not liking Dell ;) That 690 is a pricey system, but I guess it's giving out a lot of power for that money. The best news to me is that they are going down this same route with AMD …

It seems rather fitting, that a movie no one wanted to see is the first to be released for a player no one has. LOL. I'm speaking for myself; Adam Sandler, his popularity notwithstanding, is in my opinion the biggest waste of time ever to stand in front of a …

An elderly woman in Ohio has been pretty much beaten to a pulp by AT&T (not physically, of course, but it almost might well have been). Here's the story: Mandatory phone rentals went out in the 80's when the big phone company breakup went down, right?. There is this woman …

It was just a rumor. I said it was just a rumor. I reported it as a rumor. I had heard a few months ago that a rumor had surfaced about the pricing for Windows Vista. I had heard that the Home Premiun version (the version I would most likely …

Well, well, well. Just as I got done ratting out the mobile phone companies for various beat-downs, guess what I found out? Well, actually, I found out two things: one, I found out that I should be glad I don't have a monthly mobile phone service plan. I wouldn't even …

Sadly, I too have noticed that Sony has been slipping over the last few years. It used to be they were [B]always[/B] my first choice for anything electronic. I now tend to avoid them unless they have a product that's significantly better than similar products from other companies, which is …

What is up with software version numbering systems? Why no standard? How is it that some fly-by-night app, obviously obscure until the author managed to scrape together enough savvy to get it listed on a software download site, comes out of the gate at version 7.0.33.491 or some other lie …

You know, I'm not at all surprised by this. Considering that these thudheads that run these sites are willing to pay-per-click (or per whatever) to get the gullible to their sites, I find this to be no more than expected. The problem though, that I see, is that many search-related …

It scares me that, even if I do the duty to protect my personal information, some IT "professional" might be asleep at the switch and be the leak that sinks my ship. So, just when I thought I was going to go a whole day without feeling beat-down, I ran …

Well, Symantec (one of my favorite whipping-boy software companies) is at it again. I mean they have taken hold of the crank with a death grip and are trying their best to give that bad boy one heck of a spin! Now you ought to know by now that I …

Microsoft's patch-the-patch policy and practice has just rubbed a hole in their own breeches that they need to patch! First, the snafu over WGA (which supposedly just wants to make sure you have a legitimate copy of Windows before you are allowed to update or get other cool stuff for …

I'm going to let up on the beat-down for today, and instead give you a [B]heads up[/B]. There is a company (and a service) that's been quietly kicking Google's butt (if you can believe that). The butt being kicked is not Google itself, but rather GMail, Google's wildly popular email …

I don't know a good word to use for the advantage Microsoft has with IE. I guess you can call it a "mindset" advantage A lot of people seem to have the idea that IE is better by default because of the formula, "MS=Windows, MS=IE, therefore IE is best for …

Here we go with the mobile phone beat-down again: Cingular Wireless, in a move boiling over with distasteful corporate hubris, has had the unmitigated effrontery to announce that they are going to charge folks with "older phones" an additional five bucks a month (OK, $4.99, but who's splitting hairs here?) …

I'm not going to mention any real names in this article (to protect the innocent as well as to protect the innocent (me) against the guilty), but if you've been keeping up, you know that right now, the highest rated spyware removal program, according to the most well-known reviewers and …

Yeah, I have to agree. I mean, consider if the same number of people download now as already have (3 million). At $1.50 a pop, that's $4.5 million! There isn't a mathematician or self-proclaimed IT guru in the galaxy that's going to convince me that it costs nearly that much …

I'm going to proceed from the assumption that those of you who are reading this article are at least somewhat technically savvy. I was going to further assume that none of you (or at least very few) have ever been victimized by spyware or a virus, but that stretches reality …

Awesome! I'm going to check this out; thanks for the tip.

I think that what Kazaa stood for was against some law somewhere, and of course that aspect of it needs to be addressed, but as one who has actually touched into the music business, I can assure you that no one, absolutely NO ONE, lost any money. Companies and artists …

Well, well, well. Something I said wouldn't happen is actually trying to happen. I don't know how long it will last or how far it will go, but there is certainly something here. While I have always respected Apple computers, and admitted that they are more stable, easier to learn …

Is it just me, or is there a rather severe dearth of knowledgeable help at technology stores? I don't think I've ever seen a larger number of know-nothing, computer tech wannabes working at stores where technology products are sold. And God forbid you should go to an office supply store …

Most people today would likely say that whenever they need to call any kind of customer/technical support, they have a horrid experience, or at least something far less than what is implied by company slogans and mission statements that go on about how important "each and every" customer is to …

OfficeMax recently announced that they are doing away with rebates! Here's an actual headline subheading: [B]Citing overwhelming customer dissatisfaction with its mail-in rebate system, OfficeMax said it will eliminate the program beginning this weekend.[/B] ([URL="http://news.com.com/OfficeMax+bids+farewell+to+mail-in+rebates/2100-1047_3-6090290.html"]http://news.com.com/OfficeMax+bids+farewell+to+mail-in+rebates/2100-1047_3-6090290.html[/URL]) Don't panic, though, they are merely dumping rebates in favor of in-store discounts, which is …

Ah, forget what I've been saying. I have a new focus now; consumer beat-downs. What's that? I'm glad you asked. This blog's entries will be heretofore devoted to bringing to light some of the nasty tricks played upon consumers for the purpose of getting them to part with their cash, …

Tell you what. If it comes in at under twenty grand, I'm gettin' one! The wife can wait a few years for a new car. I mean, we're talking about a machine you won't have to upgrade for like, 15 years or something. :cheesy:

If this is how they're dealing with the threat from OneCare, I dare say they might be slipping into irrelvancy sooner that I would have thought...or hoped.

Now there's an opinion I wholeheartedly agree with! Not that I have even thought of using Symantec's bloated, intrusive, complex-because-that-makes-it-seem-powerful security products in a few years (and haven't missed them one bit), but gloating, gladhanding and backslapping over a creeping-speed fix for a flaw with such major damage potential, from …

Yes, goldeagle2005, I have used Avast for nearly 2 years now and have had no problems whatsoever, other than somewhat longer boot times. I stopped using not only Symantec products, but also McAfee and the other pay-us-every-year bloatware products, and I very strongly recommend everyone do the same. It just …

[QUOTE] How can google index something that is only available in paper form? [/QUOTE] Easy. Robot scanners with remote page-flipping technology. A small thing in a couple hundred years :)

Oh, so now they think they know that the Solar System is in a bag inside a bag inside a bag. Right And how do they know that passing through these various Helioses (or is it Heliii?) won't punch a hole in them and expose us to the harsh interstellar …