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According to various reports all domain names in the dictionary are taken up so you'll now have to improvise or buy one. Try plugging names into the form at www.register.com and you'll see what I mean. Another form of useless fun is to think of words...
DATE: Jul 05, 2000
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Do you roll your eyes when ever you hear the word internet mentioned yet again on a television news story? Do you cringe as you realise a conversational black hole is about to appear at your dinner party when someone (usually a guy suffering from a ...
DATE: Jun 26, 2000
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It seems everyone is taking the computer industry to court these days. Apart from the Microsoft battle against the government, the main legal disputes centre around the entertainment industry.
The record industry has had an ongoing suit against Napst...
DATE: Jun 19, 2000
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Someone at Adobe Photoshop must be a Lou Reed fan because they've code-named the latest version in the making as "Venus in Furs'', a reference to his song about New York night life.
Photoshop is the program of choice for high-powered graphics editing...
DATE: Jun 05, 2000
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through the data stored on their computer by mimicking a three dimensional office.
Software developers, including those at Microsoft, have been working, so far unsuccessfully, to come up with a better system of navigation through computer data by usi...
DATE: May 29, 2000
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The best thing about a digital camera is you don't have to worry about wasting film.
If you don't like a shot you just hit delete.
The worst thing about a digital camera is the enormous amount of photos you end up keeping. Zip disks are filling up at...
DATE: May 15, 2000
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Remember the saying that you should never go back into the kitchen of your favourite restaurant? Well the same description probably applies to the computer rooms housing the hardware and software systems of many organisations. They're usually a mess ...
DATE: May 08, 2000
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Yes, you too can become a secret agent.
The latest hot device for the man or woman about town is the hand held scanner. These thin portable scanners allow quick scans of pages of text, bits of sentences you may want to remember, or a document left as...
DATE: May 01, 2000
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Just how much money offshore centres like Bermuda could make by allowing virtual casinos and sport betting shops to operate from their jurisdictions can be seen in a recently released report on money laundering by the US Bureau for International Narc...
DATE: Apr 25, 2000
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US firms are looking to offshore centres in an attempt to overcome the worldwide shortage of information technology (IT) workers according to a report from research firm IDC.
However, on closer inspection much of the needs of these firms -- lots of c...
DATE: Apr 18, 2000
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