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May 2004

135 posts

Recruiting 4 Guest Editors for July

I will be on extensive travel the month of July and connectivity is going to be extremely difficult. I will be in need to 4 guest bloggers to help out for the month. Looking for each to help out for a week each. If you feel like helping us out in July or you would like to become a editor

Lockergnome secures discount on Picasa

Lockergnome has been able to secure a discount on the purchase of "Picasa", which is a very good Photo editing and organizing program. [Lockergnome]

Asteroid to pass within 1 Million Miles of Earth

A well known Asteroid will pass within 1 million miles of Earth, the asteroid called Toutais which is well known to scientist will fly by this fall. [Slashdot] [Space.com]

Student’s cellphone confiscated at school

My 14 year old daughter now has a security cell phone. It's one that I can restrict where and who she can call. It came with very strict parent imposed usage guidelines and does not have text messages. Some of you will roll your eyes 1st for the restrictions I imposed to allowing her have one in the first place.

Where Groove is Headed in Version 3

I have been a Groove user for about a year and have really enjoyed using the program. MY wife and I use it to keep our schedules synced and a team of people I work with us it for some of our smaller projects. I have always bitched on how the application has been a resource pig. Well the folks

OneNote OPML Import Tool

Well someone has went and made a OneNote OPML import tool but how come they don't have an export tool. I guess I should be happy that this has been developed. I have heard great things about OneNote but I have decided that if a program does not support RSS, XML, OPML and interface with the API used by bloggers

Microsoft antipiracy software

I am sure people are not very thrilled about Microsoft taking on a big brother role essentially becoming the piracy police. I don't want them taking over the management of the content on my hard-drive and MP3 player. They have definitely bowed to organizations like the RIAA and MPAA. The ultimate goal of all of these organizations is to limit

W32.Sasser.Worm

Seems this worm has been making the rounds and causing havoc. Will it ever end. I am relieved that it does not affect NT machines as one of my critical systems still runs NT. Everything was patched before I left so I should be ok time will tell. [LockerGnome] [Symantec]

Spirit see it’s Shadow

I have not been following the Opportunity and Spirit missions as much as I should. I think it is like any other space program as soon as the novelty wears off it is easy to get distracted. Nice photo where spirit see's it's own shadow. Thanks to adot's notblog for the link. [NASA]

The life expectancy of a CDR

Have you been putting valuable data on CDR's and putting them away and forgetting about them? Well you may be surprised when you pull one of those disk out and the data on them is corrupt! Thanks to Windley.com for the link. [Maximum Burn]

Make sure you help family members patch their Computers

As a avid reader of Geek News Central I know that all of you keep your computers patched with the latest offerings from Microsoft. The question I want you to ask yourself do you talk to your parents or your siblings to encourage them to patch their computers. If we all advocate patching of our friends and families computers we

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