An exploration of technology, programming, cartooning, old time radio, and whatever else crosses my radar
My Microsoft wireless optical mouse, the Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0, is now officially deceased. For days it has double-clicked about every fourth time I single-clicked the left mouse button. Today the false double-click rate rose to about every other mouse click. You can imagine the problems that created in most applications, so I have reluctantly retired the wireless mouse and gone back to using my eight-year-old corded IntelliMouse.
A study conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project concludes that more Americans than ever before regard spam as merely an unpleasant fact of life, nothing to get too upset about. In fact, 28% of the survey respondents said that spam wasn’t a problem at all.
According to the Associated Press, Intel will soon be removing the last of the lead from its processor chips as part of the company’s environmental campaign.
My Compaq Presario came with Windows XP pre-loaded. That was very convenient in many ways, but one small disadvantage was that my name had been entered as Compaq_Owner and the picture at the top of my Start menu had been pre-specified as one of the stock images (in this case, chess pieces)! If I had installed Windows XP myself, I would have entered my name and specified an image during the installation process.
Have you seen those colorful little pictures in the address bar of your browser, to the left of the web site’s URL? These pictures are called shortcut icons, and they also appear next to web site names in favorite and bookmark listings and make those web sites easily recognizable. Your web site can stand out [...]