Archive May 6, 2006
Socially Inept Bookmarking
When I need to bookmark a site, I don't. Either I remember it, keywords related to it, or send myself an email about it. I don't “do” any social bookmarking services yet, and I don't really care to have a million bookmarks in my browser that I'll never remember to click. So, I stumbled into [...]
CPU, GPU, PPU
AFAIK, few people have a PPU sitting inside their PC. I just wrote about Intel's new CPU last night, but didn't even think of picking up a PPU – a Physics Processing Unit, aimed at the hardcore gamer. Perhaps it's just the word “Physics” that's freaking me out, considering I barely passed physics class in [...]
Picasa Easter Egg
Tech-Recipes served up a delicious morsel the other day for all of us Picasa users (no doubt, the best photo manager for Windows on the planet). You can view all your photos easily inside of your default browser (including Firefox). With Picasa open, hit Ctrl+Shift+L to invoke a browser window. Each of those thumbnails is [...]
Font Fun
From Nelson's links comes a rather fantastic treasure trove of bitmap (pixel) fonts. I've been a font fanatic for years – ever since the very beginning of TrueType. Actually, I suppose I fell in love with the idea of fonts when one of my first dot matrix printers let me change the face of doucments [...]
International Office
This add-in enables you to insert international characters from 26 languages into Office 2003 programs. You can do this in a single click without changing your keyboard or language settings in Office 2003. This download can be used with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (when using Microsoft Office Word 2003 as the [...]
Google Maps Add-In for Outlook
There's a Google Maps Add-In for Outlook now. Quite handy for those of us who still choose to use that PIM. I've been pretty hard on newer releases of Outlook (beyond Outlook 2000), but I have to admit that I'm looking forward to taking the next version of Outlook for a spin. I've seen preliminary [...]
