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Fun Technology
The glasses that can find anything
(except, of course, your missing glasses)
You
know the feeling. Call it a senior moment, absent-mindedness or a
sign of what a busy active brain you have. We’ve all asked ourselves
that irritating question: “Where on earth did I leave my car keys?”
Now a team of Japanese scientists
claim to have come up with the answer. And the secretive
artificial intelligence project codenamed Smart Goggle does not
stop at elusive keys. With Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s invention balanced on
your nose, nothing – be it the remote control, mobile phone or iPod – should ever go missing
again.
Simply tell the glasses what you are
looking for and it will play into your eye a video of the last few
seconds you saw that item.
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Service Pack vs "Patch"
contributed by the Technical Department
at ITsynergy
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Microsoft
has been busy the last several months, and among other things has
released two new major service packs that will affect most of our
customers.
We thought that we first might provide some
benefit by discussing the difference between a
service pack and a patch. Patches are released
regularly by Microsoft and fix a specific
problem with a piece of their software.
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Microsoft categorizes their patches with
the most important being categorized as critical. Microsoft has one
of the best records in the industry in this area, including a
regular schedule of patch releases (second Tuesday of every month),
outstanding communication to interested parties about the patching
process (they email us to warn us of everything that is coming out
before it hits) and free support for problems created by patches.
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How to
'Undo' a Big Mistake in Windows
by Kim Komando
Reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center
It used to be, back in that last century, that people wished
for a reverse time machine. This would allow them to go back
in time after they messed up their computer. Well, Windows
XP has that time machine. And when some awful thing gives
your computer the staggers, it's easy to go back to the day
before. Or the day before that. Or last week or last month.
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It's an all-too-often
unused feature that may save your bacon someday, called System
Restore. Here are four things to know about it.
1. It allows you to
go back in time.
System Restore creates
points in time — called "restore points" — in which it takes a
snapshot of Windows. It stores them on your hard drive. At any given
time, you might have restore points going back a few weeks, or a few
months. System Restore also is included in Windows Me. Windows 98
has a similar, but less advanced, utility called Registry Checker.
It can undo problems in the Windows Registry. More about that in a
minute.
So how do you get
into System Restore?
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It's Not Easy Being Green!
Written by: David Tan, CTO
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Traditionally, standard business practice for Information
Technology has dictated that the primary focus of IT
decisions and initiatives is based on the economic impact
and viability. In other words, how much will it cost, how
much will it save me over time, and when will I recoup my
investment. This mindset has started to change drastically
in the last year or so, as companies adopt a Green IT
mentality, and start to consider not only the economic
impact of their decisions, but the environmental and social
as well. The problem is, for IT, it’s not easy being green. |
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Green IT is one of those industry catchphrases we love to use so
much. Essentially it is the practice of using computer resources in
a more efficient and environmentally conscientious way. This can
include everything from reduced power consumption to recycling and
safe disposal. The trend is growing fastest among large enterprises,
but clearly this is something everyone can do, even the smallest
business and home user. As a caveat, going green can also mean more
green for the company – in the form of cost savings or tax benefits.
Reducing power consumption can clearly lead to lower utility costs.
Server consolidation can free up valuable office space for other
revenue generating functions. Many states are offering incentives
for the safe disposal of old computer components – and some that
aren’t are starting to enact regulations mandating the practice.
This is something you need to be thinking about for your business
immediately. Here
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The trouble
with learning from experience is that you
never graduate.
-Doug
Larson
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Pack vs. "Patch"