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The world of webtops
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 01/12/2010
» There are a surprising number of webtops out there on the Internet, so surprising that it makes you wonder what all the fuss is about. After all, a webtop is simply a web page that acts like a computer operating system. The webtop screen looks a lot like your computer desktop, offering access to email, calendaring, word processing, instant messaging and so on - some even come with their own web browser (a browser within a browser - what's the point of that?).
Internet Site of theWeek
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 17/11/2010
» It has happened to all of us: you click on a ''send me an email'' link and your computer grinds to a halt while trying to start up an application like Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express or some other external program that you never use. Annoying, isn't it?
Internet Site of theWeek
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 10/11/2010
» If you've spent a lot of time using computers, you've probably got lots of files on your computer that are pretty old _ and you may not have the original programs used to create them.
Escape the tyranny of file formats
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 06/10/2010
» Today I would like to share with you one of most important things about software that you will ever learn or need to know, and I can say that with some confidence, based on 20 years of using a personal computer.
INTERNET SITE of the Week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 25/08/2010
» The Internet is a most interesting place, full of interesting things, but how do you find them? How do you search for something when you don't know what you're searching for? And what about the serendipity of stumbling across an amazing site that you had no idea existed?
Internet Site of the Week
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 11/08/2010
» I'm one of those people who find computer screens incredibly boring. When you're working with various applications like Microsoft Word, there's not much you can do about it. Some applications, like WinAMP and Google Chrome, have ''skins'' or ''themes'' that you can download to change the application's appearance.
Half a century of frustration
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 07/07/2010
» Computers are incredibly annoying, which is odd because operating systems got their start back in the 1950s. That's right: more than 50 years ago! More than 50 years of "development" and my personal computer (running a legal copy of Windows XP) still crashes. Still!
We've come a long way, baby - or not
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 12/05/2010
» The protests on the streets of Bangkok these days are a reminder that, taken as a whole, mankind has come a long way in the past hundred years - yet not everyone has been able to enjoy the trip, nor have all benefited from the enormous sacrifices required for industrialisation and participation in the modern world. It has increasingly become a world of haves and have-nots and the disparity has been fuelled, in large part, by science and technology.
Up to their old tricks
Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 21/04/2010
» It happened again. I was innocently browsing the web the other day and Microsoft Corp, from its cushy offices in Redmond, California, reached out across the web and threw a glass of cold water in my face.