Archive for December, 2007

Elf Yourself is a fun little Christmas promotion from Office Max that lets you turn yourself and your friends into a crazy dancing elf. The Elf Yourself site reads: “This holiday get what you’ve always wanted. The miraculous ability to turn yourself into an elf. And now you can cut the arctic rug with the whole [...]

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Looking for a cool way to show off your digital photos on the Web? PostcardViewer from Airtight Interactive is a Flash application that displays a set of photos as if they were postcards, shuffled around on a table top. PostcardViewer is a free download, and its web site includes instructions on generating a gallery using a [...]

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Anyone with a web site or blog probably knows that putting your e-mail address on the web brings in a wave of spam. Many spammers employ software called “spiders” that crawl around the web, examining web pages for e-mail addresses. Each e-mail address found by a spider is saved into the spammer’s database, and will [...]

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If you work in an office environment where co-workers frequently share documents and spreadsheets with each other, you should consider allowing multiple people to collaborate on the same files simultaneously. If everyone is e-mail copies of the same file back and forth, at some point you may lose track of the most recent version and [...]

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Passwords are the keys to our lives in this day and age. Passwords protect our computer access, e-mail, online accounts, bank accounts, and so much more. Just imagine if someone got their hands on your online banking password (since you are not using the same password for Facebook and your checking account, right?). They [...]

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Lately, you may have noticed articles like “How to Code a PHP Contact Form” contain source code examples for various programming tasks, and let me tell you, it was a real pain getting WordPress to cooperate with that code. By using these notes, you will hopefully spend a lot less time trudging through the muck [...]

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A contact form is a very effective tool for someone who runs a Web site — one can protect their e-mail address from spammers, and allow visitors to easily get in touch. Some people might not be motivated enough to open up their e-mail client and compose a message, but may take the time to [...]

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Unfortunately, the digital camera market is full of scam artists. For every reputable digital camera retailer, there are many more dishonest cheats looking to con you out of your money. Most of them operate online and over the phone. Here are a few different ways in which these swindlers operate: Overpriced Accessories Cameras come packaged with certain [...]

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Are you planning on buying a digital camera for yourself or a loved one this Christmas? Be an educated buyer — learn what all of the various digital photography-related terms actually mean. By brushing up on your vocabulary, you will be able to compare features and cameras and thus make a better decision when it [...]

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Computers are always confusing people with random messages, sounds, flashes, and even reboots. Nothing, however, may prepare you for this: certain computers may randomly serenade you with classical music. Unfortunately, your computer has not become infatuated with your striking good looks. Instead, it is warning you impending system failure. This particularly amusing musical anomaly is actually [...]

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