Tech Tips

June 2006

Photo CD Cover

by Barbara J. Feldman June 22, 2006

Got photos? Got CDs? How about creating a cool CD cover from your own photos? This fun tool from Flagrant Disregard will create a personalized, printable page that integrates your photo and text into a CD or DVD cover that you simply print, cut, and fold. You can upload a photo from your own computer, [...]

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Google: Shakespeare

by Barbara J. Feldman June 22, 2006

In conjunction with its sponsorship of New York’s Shakespeare in the Park summer festival, Google has just released Google: Shakespeare . Use it to search for familiar Shakespeare quotes (“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”) or to read entire works online. His works are organized by genre and title, and searchable (using Advanced Book Search) [...]

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Using Gmail as a Spam Filter

by Barbara J. Feldman June 19, 2006

If your inbox is overrun with spam, and your ISP (or corporate mail server) does not offer a spam solution that works for you, you can try using Google’s free email service Gmail as a front-end spam filter. Read more in this article from Jeremy Zawodny: Using Gmail as My Spam Filter.

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Online To Do Lists

by Barbara J. Feldman June 13, 2006

Keeping to-do lists used to be a job for paper and pencil, until Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) took over. Now a few Internet sites are vying for your lists, bringing the benefit of easy list sharing to the art and science of managing to-do lists. Here are three free services that offer shareable online to [...]

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CNET Video Tutorials

by Barbara J. Feldman June 5, 2006

Written tutorials are good, but often video tutorials are even better. CNET Insider Secret Videos is a pretty big collection of tutorials on tech subjects such as “Digitize Your Old Photos” and “It’s Easy to Setup a WiFi Network.” In addition to the tutorials, CNET also has video product reviews, which you’ll find in the [...]

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