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Microsoft Highlighter 1.0 Windows Highlighter 1.0 is an accessibility utility that makes it easier to find and follow the keyboard focus location and the text insertion point on your monitor's display. This feature places a rectangle around the user interface element that has focus and uses a pair of triangles to indicate the text insertion point in a document. [ActiveWin]

He Writes the Songs: Mac Songs. The Beatles sang about love, the Beach Boys crooned over the joys of surfing. Teacher John Swerdan has just cut an album about Macintosh computers.

Yeah whatever. The Anti-Bloggies are here! The Anti-Bloggies are here! Dawn explains it best…

Super Bowl ads return to offline giants. Football fans will see few ads for online companies during Sunday's Super Bowl, as traditional advertisers will reclaim commercial spots.

14367 » February 1 9:06 AM. Newspapers lose the web war. While newspapers recognized the risk the web posed to their core business, they often erred by forcing their new online ventures into the mold set by their pre-existing business model. A look at what made newspapers succeed or fail online from a Harvard Business School professor. (Warning: business-speak; via CNet.) Has your local newspaper done a good job on the web?

Online Mugging a Threat, But No Showstopper. In addition to terrorist and virus threats, personal identity theft is a burgeoning menace for online consumers and merchants alike. But according to analysts, vigilant consumers can avoid online attacks and should not fear e-commerce.

Plotting the revival of Ricochet. Our approach is, “Let's build a public-private partnership.” We have to rent space on top of light poles to put our antennas on. Most of those poles are either owned by cities or utilities. So we have to lease the space from them. We're trying to get a better lease rate (than what Metricom was paying). [Tomalak's Realm]

News briefs: January 31. Spacecraft controllers will initiate a series of maneuvers February 5 designed to put ESA's…

A windows to linux migration

eConventional Wisdom. David Walker writes on the Attack of the killer conventions and makes valid points for “Web conventionsÂâ€?. [Link eleganthack] First thing: Know your audience. Places like Born Magazine and Josh…

Mandrake: 'gzip' vulnerability. Mandrake: “There are two problems with the gzip archiving program; the first is a crash when an input file name is over 1020 characters, and the second is a buffer overflow that could be exploited if gzip is run on a server such as an FTP server. The patch applied is from the gzip developers and the problems have been fixed in the latest beta.”

OLYMPICS - Site relaunch. At 12 p.m. PST today, the International Olympic Committee will relaunch its web site.

Project Dogwaffle 1.09 Beta 1 Released. Project Dogwaffle supports realistic artist tools, paper, and media styles, custom and procedural brushes and fill types, realtime image processing, animation, a revamped interface and it's hopefully a lot of fun to use.

Although the cost is high - $350 - it's a cheaper solution than actually plugging PC and PCI cards into existing equipment, and it's an incredible solution for legacy equipment that can't support wireless Wi-Fi networks. There's little administration: plug it in, configure simply, and let it run (all via a Web interface). It's elegant and it gets the job done. [80211b News]

Is it PC to call your ex-employer a moron?. Some of you might of already had this experience, when interviewing for a new job, how do you explain your last boss what a lunatic, without coming off sounding like one yourself?

Episode II LEGO Catalog Images. Jeff Kaminsky writes in to tell us that Brickshelf.com have images up from an actual Episode II LEGO catalog. Images of new sets include Zam's Speeder and Anakin's Speeder! Plus images of Yoda, Dooku, Tusken Raiders and more!

Iowa ISP Providing Digital Cable Over Twisted Pair. The new technology in the future could pose a threat to established cable TV companies, such as Mediacom, the largest cable TV provider in Iowa, as well as satellite TV services. Clear Lake, a community served by Mediacom, is the first Iowa community to receive the new digital cable TV service from West Des Moines-based Iowa Network Services and the Clear Lake Independent Telephone Co.

AOL is right to turn away a million Trillians. What a bunch of crybabies! I am talking about the whiners who feel America Online is doing something terrible by locking out the users of Trillian, a multi-service instant-messaging client.

Exploding cd-rom shakes councillor. Mr Pepperell was working at his laptop last week when a CD ROM exploded out of the family PC's CD drive and flew more than 2m across the room.

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