TECHNOLOGY: NOT RECOMMENDED scanschell2000n

Thursday, November 30, 2006

http://www.card-reader.com/hardware_scanshell2000n.htm

ScanShell 2000N / 2000NR

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Check our portable duplex scanner ScanShell 3000DN

The ScanShell 2000N is now the ScanShell 2000NR with a USB 2.0 HighSpeed interface.

It is a portable, 600 DPI high-resolution A4, Twain compliant color scanner, which offers high quality image capture. Supporting Windows operating system, the Scanshell 2000R works with any standard USB port and requires no external power supply.

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DON’T YOU DARE!

Don’t buy anything from these guys. Or if you do, don’t complain to me.

Once again this productivity tool frustrates me. What should be a neat little gadget doesn’t work reliably.

My expectation is that a useful tool should be like a hammer, screwdriver, or axe. Pick it up use it and don’t worry. When like my snow blower, it doesn’t. OR, requires me to have the strength of Arnold. OR, the genius of Einstein. OR, the attention to detail of a tax accountant. Well, I lose my patience.

This particular POS required a reinstall and, a fresh download of drivers, (Figure that out? I checked the checksums and file dates, identical!) Finally, XP installed it. Or, at least stopped whining about it.

But, it doesn’t scan the one lousy picture I want it to scan.

Arghhh!

So, don’t buy this “solution”.

(I did a web search on Google and Yahoo before I did. But didn’t find any gripes. Else I wouldn’t have either.)

So much for productivity thru technology. This is in my personal technology Hall of Shame just a notch below IBM’s ViaVoice and just above that Toro Snow Blower!

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TECHNOLOGY: How to connect to your home or office computer remotely

Friday, November 24, 2006

http://www.pcmech.com/show/internet/1048/1/

http://tinyurl.com/ybsghv

Remote Connection Guide
how to connect to your home or office computer remotely under or running Windows, Linux and OS X.
Category: Internet & WWW – November 23, 2006.
Posted by Jason Faulkner.

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Remote connection is one of those things, like high speed Internet, when, once you have it, you can never go back. Most people never bother to set it up either because they do not [think they] need it, think solutions cost too much or believe it is too hard to set up on their own. If you fall into the one of these groups, I am going to change your mind.

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While I use gotomypc, and have been for a while, I think that being able to “phone home” is always useful. Here’s how to do it for free, which makes it a “no brainer” fmpov.

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TECHNOLOGY: Kodak’s software rudely grabbed jpeg hook

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Kodak’s software offered a faster way to upload pic to their site.

What it did was install a piece of BLOATWARE that seized all the picture associations like jpeg and waddles in every time one wants to look at a “picture”.

Arghhh!

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XPfails – luggable – seems slow

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Will try a reboot.

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TECHNOLOGY: XDRIVE just doesn’t work

Monday, November 20, 2006

I’d suggest that you avoid it completely!

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TECHNOLOGY: Writeboard aka a one page wiki?

Sunday, November 19, 2006

http://writeboard.com/

Writeboard

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Writeboard is completely free. You can create as many writeboards as you’d like and invite as many people to collaborate on the writeboards. There are no limits. However, if you’d like to keep all your writeboards in one place so you don’t have to bookmark URLs and remember passwords, you should check out our Backpack organizer product. It lets you neatly organize to-do lists, notes, photos, files, and writeboards online. Backpack was recently named a “Best of the Web 2005” tool by BusinessWeek.

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Seems interesting to me.

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LIBERTY: Conserve What?

Friday, November 17, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein146.html

Conserve What?
by Paul Hein

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Many of us find the “conservative” position on many issues more agreeable – or less disagreeable – than the “liberal.” But what is it that conservatives are conserving? I have never seen that question answered – or even asked – but isn’t it a good question?

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As an ex-conservative, I wanted the liberty that the Dead Old White Guys promised. Unfortunately, I didn’t get what I was promised. Instead Gubamint has made me a slave!

I go around and around trying to see how I can free myself.

The critical issues of stuffing the genie back in the box are: ending the fiat currency, ending the government reeducation propaganda camps, and ending the dole! I have no silver bullet. Heck, I can’t even figure out where to begin.

Money! Skools! Dole!

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JOBSEARCH: JIBBERJOBBER’s document section doesn’t permit cut’n’paste

Friday, November 17, 2006

http://www.jibberjobber.com/doc_manager.php

Ahh hah!

I stuffed some doc in JIBBERJOBBER and realized a flaw. It’s wants to upload all docs. Admirable. But what if you want to cut’n’paste something from a webpage.

It should allow you to do that. You are getting the space.

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Technology: Found a neat trick to put your email on a webpage

Friday, November 17, 2006

Use any of the url shortening sites, like tiny url, and push mailto:myemail@bigisp.net into it a get a url back like http://tinyurl/abcde

Clicking on that link lets people send you an email.

It’s believed to be not harvest able by spyders and bots.

Hmmm?

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TECHNOLOGY: Private and Encrypted document sharing

Friday, November 10, 2006

https://wideword.net/

Your documents are Private and Encrypted

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Write and share documents easily, quickly and privately!

With WideWord you can invite any amount of friends or partners to collaborate on a document with you. All you need to do is enter their email address and we send them an invitation straight away. WideWord ensures that the document remains secure.

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Interesting, but why should someone trust this, or any service provider?

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