THE CAT’S PAWS

I hadn’t seen it before, but I’d heard about it. It’s available from ISPs to homeowners who have wireless in their home.

Essentially, access to the Internet is impossible without a password, which enables the modem to send the signal to the hard drive of the user who visits with a laptop. Our friends down here are real estate agents, so alot of their friends are also agents.
These folks carry laptops around, key in passwords at each others’ homes, and that’s that. (more…)

Windows 95 and Windows 2000 had a calulator embedded in the ‘Accessories’ button. In XP, though, some Windows programmer bastard decided to remove it. Occasionally I can find it, but this doesn’t happen to be one of those times.

Admittedly, every one of us can use all the practice in subtraction that bill-paying offers us, but it’s the matter of needing to keep a pad of paper under my right forearm that seems rather primitive. I remind us all what Walter Mondale, and his mighty presidential candidate opponent Bill Clinton, kept saying in their 1996 campaigns:

‘We will soon live in the information age’. They sure were right! (more…)

I have an extended family and they/we/I develop digital hard-copy photos at developing places. Of course, we get our photos in a disk as well.

I have a Mac and a PC. One takes a sentence to explain how everything works when I insert disks from Walgreens, CVS, Sams, etc. With any Mac system comes iPhoto, which Windows hasn’t worked out a sharing agreement with The Apple Corp just yet. (more…)

iTunes’ has infintite listing capabilities, limited only to the amount of music you stuff into it. Start new playlists, put an hour-or-so of music into each playlist, burn it all onto a CD, and play it in your car for as long as the car industry continues to equip CD players in their wheeled product.

One of the simplest features of this iTunes ‘burn’ component, though, comes from an ordinary then , when you have your playlist up. It sends the title of the playlist (now CD), numbered track names, and numbered track artists. (more…)

I had entirely underestimated the quality of the Windows-based iTunes. The news has been fantastic for nearly a hundred million U.S. users alone. I suspect our friends across the pond are rather digging it all as well.

There’s a few small differences, sure; keystroke differences ‘tween Mac and Windows are just that–but they lead to the same place, which is an exceptional music archival and playing system. (more…)

What Windows REALLY means is that if you have a Jpeg photo file or two on your desktop and can open and view ONE and not the other, well…

…you, the user, is out of the game. Users that attempt to counterpunch the user-unfriendly Microsoft Corporation generally get their asses kicked, PLUS go through life never seeing or opening the photo that he/she simply wishes to look at. (more…)