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with Lynn Wegley

 

InfoManager for May 7, 2007


     

Judiciary Committee says "NO" to Spyware

The I-Spy Prevention Act overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives in the 108th and 109th Congress, addresses the most egregious activities that are conducted via spyware (Read More)

Do you gamble online?

An old internet controversy is rearing its ugly head again as the line is drawn in the sand between the pros and cons of online gambling... Fred's 60-Second Window post for May 6, 2007 takes a look at both sides.

iPod Fully Loaded

I first met Andy Ihnatko during my two years as an Activist with the Boston Computer Society in the mid 80s. Andy really was a spring chicken in those days. "iPod Fully Loaded" is not meant to be a complete book on the secrets of iPod.

SlingPlayer Comes to Mac

SlingPlayer has been available for PC users for some time. See the full story...

Mac User Groups going the way of the Newton

Justin Berka, in his column Infinte Loop at arstecnica.com talks about the decline and eventual death of compuer user groups in general and Macintosh user groups specifically.

India working on $10 laptops

The OLPC project has had a goal for sometime of providing a $100 laptop for school children. However, the Indian government wants to do it even cheaper.

Thrift Mac

I have long been an advocate of doing things as inexpensively as possible. This doesn't mean in my mind to avoid high in products, those are often the most efficient way to get things done.

Seashore 0.1.9

I have been looking for an easy to use inexpensive graphic program. I have found that Graphic Converter has gotten more complicated ober the years. I heard about Seashore this morning on a Podcast. Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa. (Read More)

DEFCON for Mac OS X

here comes the game -- inspired by the 1983 cult-classic film, WarGames, superbly evokes the tension, paranoia and suspicion surrounding the Cold War era. See the full story...

Cure ugly online presentations

WINDOWS: WildPresenter is the only presentation software that allows users to instantly re-create all multimedia elements including images, video, audio, quizzes, text effects, and screen recordings WildPresenter

Light Crafts for Adobe CS3

Lightzone's purpose-built photo-editing capabilities adds advanced photo-editing capabilities to Adobe graphic-design and video-editing suite for Windows and Mac

AOL Gone Bad... revisited

a reader responds to Fred Showker's -AOL Gone Bad- article in 60-Second Windows... are they treating you bad enough to cut and run? This reader thinks so.

Own a Color

Jonathan Munk shares important considerations for your Logo, color scheme and identity program (Read More)

Flip4Mac

Telestream has released an update to its Flip4Mac. Flip4Mac is used to allow playing WMP files on a Mac. (Read More)

Quotes: Jim Rohn and Zig Ziglar

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much."
      - Jim Rohn

"When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action."
      - Zig Ziglar

Have a great week... (See last week)

Lynn

 

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