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A Look at Windows Vista http://www.winsupersite.com/vista/ Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Windows Vista Activity Center has a great collection of screenshots of the new Windows OS. The collection of screenshots goes from clean install to various components including My Computer, the Control Panel, Search, Pictures, and Music. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/31/2005 11:15:00 AM 
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Vista - The MS Story http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx The Official Microsoft Windows Vista website touts the new OS as having four key elements:
Although Microsoft has a lot of general information at its site, I wasn't able to readily find any screenshots or images of the new OS. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/30/2005 11:12:00 PM
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The Look and Feel of IE 7.0 http://www.clothedandy.com/Writings/IE%207%20Beta%201/ The above website has a tremendous article discussing the new features of Internet Explorer 7 Beta1. Better yet, the article is filled with images of what the new browser looks like, explanations of what new features do and how they work. One feature causing great excitement is tabbed browsing. This beta is only available to MSDN subscribers right now and available as a separate download or bundled with the beta version of Windows Vista. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/29/2005 09:20:00 PM
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Gov to Offer Low-Cost Electronic Health Record Software - VistA-Office http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=166403427 Close on the heels of Microsoft's announcement that it was naming the next Windows operating system "VISTA" the Government has announced it will offer a new low-cost software to medical practitioners with the name VistA-Office. The software is to be provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid next week. This is part of the government's effort to create an interoperable national health data exchange. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/28/2005 11:20:00 PM
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Go Blind Using Cell Phones? http://www.isracast.com/tech_news/250705_tech.htm An Israeli researcher believes that exposure to cell phone radiation may cause visual damage and suggests that existing exposure guidelines for microwave radiation may have to change. The research was conducted using calves and not on humans. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/27/2005 11:57:00 PM
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MSN VirtualEarth - Old Satellite Images http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/25/msn_earth_deletes_aple/ There is an article in today's issue of The Register titled "Microsoft's Earth deletes Apple HQ" poking a bit of fun. The real deal is that MSN VirtualEarth sure looks like it uses older satellite images of places than Google for some areas. VirtualEarth's image of New York includes the Twin Towers. On the other hand, MSN VirtualEarth gives you a much closer look at Google's headquarters than the satellite images available on Google. Just do a search for 2400 E. Bayshore Pkwy, Mountain View, 94043 to see the difference. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/25/2005 08:56:00 PM
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MSN Joins Search Engine Map Wars http://virtualearth.msn.com MSN has countered Google Maps and Yahoo Local Maps with Virtual Earth. Officially slated to open tomorrow, the beta version of the site is operational today. The site offers both road and aerial maps. Like Google and Yahoo, the map offers a slider to zoom in to a location and searchs by address. I took a test drive and entered my street address. I hit enter and nothing happened. I clicked on search and nothing happened. There was no feedback to tell me the site was or was not working. Doing the same thing on Google, I got a message "We could not understand the location" which was enough to tell me I needed to add the city. See, Google Maps. Yahoo prevents problems by giving you a separate box for your city or zip code. See, Yahoo Local Maps. Unfortunately, Yahoo needs more than the city name. Unlike Google and MSN, when I entered the street address and city name, I did not get a map of my neighborhood. Instead I got a map of a similarly named city in a different state. Both Google and MSN Virtual Earth offer full screen maps for both street and satellite views. Yahoo uses a much smaller map and does not offer satellite images. Yahoo also forces you to scroll down to see all of the map because it insists on placing a large ad above the map making for a poor overall design. After entering the city in MSN Virtual Earth, I was able to zoom in and see my house and switch to the aerial view. From all appearances the satellite image on MSN was the same resolution as the same satellite image on Google. MSN's version overlays the satellite image with streets automatically. With Google you have a choice of seeing the satellite image by itself or using a hybrid of maps to see the overlay. With MSN the overlay of streets was off by about 20 feet from the image and curves were rendered as angled turns. With MSN's Virtual Earth, you can use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. You can also push down the left mouse button to drag the image in any direction. Google offers the ability to drag, but does not integrate mouse zooming. I would rate Google as first in this area with MSN coming in a very close second. Yahoo is a distant third. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/24/2005 10:57:00 AM
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Longhorn = Vista = Trouble? http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/ 2002397450_microvista23.html Microsoft Windows watchers will need to add a new word to their lexicons. Yesterday Microsoft announced that the release version of Longhorn will be called Microsoft Windows Vista. Microsoft selected the name based on changes to Windows that will allow better visualization of the contents of the PC, communications and desktop. The Seatle Times reports that this could spell trouble and trademark litigation. Apparently, another Redmond software company established in 1999 already owns the trademark for VISTA. Apparently, Microsoft's intellectual property lawyers were too busy trying to patent the creation of custom emoticons (see, Microsoft frowned at for smiley patent) to check for a trademark associated with Vista. ;-) Posted by WEBnME @ 7/23/2005 09:40:00 AM
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Google Adds Hybrid Maps http://maps.google.com Google now offers a hybrid street map - satellite map where streets and landmarks are overlaid atop satellite images. With street and highway names added, the satellite images are infinitely more useful. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/22/2005 09:04:00 AM
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Webmaster's Delight http://www.master.com/texis/master/app/apps.html If you are a small website owner and need to have some great sticky apps to improve the quality of your offerings, you'll want to stop by and have a look at the free offerings from Thunderstone at master.com. Available are search, message board, auctions, classified, feedback manager, stock quotes, polls, calendar, and more. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/21/2005 09:07:00 AM
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Explore the Moon with Google http://moon.google.com 36 years ago today man first stepped onto the surface of the Moon. In celebration of that feat, Google has launched Google Moon with NASA imagery and plots of where the six Apollo missions landed. When you visit, make sure you move the slider to the highest resolution and you just may be surprised at what you see. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/20/2005 10:11:00 PM
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Cyberchondriacs? http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB112171034195688494- _ARRWh4RqeF2SX1PoiMqLpltLbI_20060718,00.html?mod=rss_free The Wall Street Journal is running a great story on the impact of freely available medical information on the web. It seems that many people are crossing the line from being better educated patients to becoming what the author dubs as "cyberchondriacs" as they attempt to self-diagnose. The problem is an old one, people will believe what they read 9 out of 10 times regardless of the source and be less likely to believe somebody trained and expert on the subject. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/19/2005 10:12:00 PM
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2008 Presidential Elections http://michaelhodges.com/stuff/funny/2008cc1.swf The election is still a long way off, but that has not prevented humorous speculation about who might stand for election. The above site has a flash movie in the Jib-Jab genre that probably won't be too popular with Hillary fans. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/18/2005 10:00:00 PM
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ICE - In Case of Emergency - Campaign http://www.eastanglianambulance.com/content/news/newsdetail.asp ?newsID=646104183 The UK's East Anglian Ambulance service carried a news story a few months ago about a campaign to encourage people to enter emergency contact information into their cell phones. The idea is to create an entry called ICE with the phone number of your emergency contact. ICE stands for "In Case of Emergency". This would help an ambulance service use your cell phone to quickly find who should be called, if you are in serious trouble. Click the above link to read the full story. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/15/2005 10:12:00 PM
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Context Senstive Keyboard - Wow! http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/ Although not available in production, this Russian site features a great idea for a keyboard that will delight users that have been stumped with figuring out what key does what in a program. The keys on this keyboard are context sensitive and change what they show depending on what program the keyboard is controlling. If you are playing a game, the keyboard will show you what game functions are controlled by what key. Similarly, it will match icons to keys for something like Photoshop. Now here's an idea that shows promise. Hope it goes to production. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/14/2005 10:42:00 PM
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Study Says Studies Not Reliable http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/07/13/ contradictory.studies.ap/index.html How many times have we heard that "studies prove" some proposition or another? We've always suspected that you could get a study to prove about anything or both sides of the same issue and now you guessed it -- there is a study that shows that about 1/3 of the studies studied were not supportable or in lay terms nonsense. But like all studies, this one relied on a small sample in a specific area with attendant caveats. So what does it all mean? I guess it means that even a study that says studies are bunk may itself be bunk. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/13/2005 09:31:00 PM
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Mind Your Manners - Table Training http://www.fekids.com/img/kln/flash/ DontGrossOutTheWorld.swf Clever us of flash and wit make the above site a must visit web venue. Take the test and learn whether you know enough about diverse customs and table manners to be a world traveler. Each answer you make will get an instant result and the answer will be explained, so this also works as a quick tutorial of sorts. Give it a try and see how much you know. The base site, http://www.fekids.com/kln/index.html, has a lot of great humor and fun stuff for young people in two catagories - "goof off stuff" and "school help". Posted by WEBnME @ 7/10/2005 11:02:00 PM
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Awesome Mini Hard Drive Iomega 20 GB Mini Hard Drive  Iomega has introduced a very small 20 GB mini hard drive that weighs only 3.5 ounces. It can operate from a USB connection without an external power source.  It is one of the smallest hard drives around, easily sliding into your pocket. If you need a way to move a lot of files from home to the office or you need to have a library of files handy wherever you go, this may be something you'll want to add to your collection of gadgets. Get One Now! Posted by WEBnME @ 7/09/2005 12:53:00 PM
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Don't Sit In Seat 29E http://cc.usu.edu/~shetzel/seat29e.pdf Most anyone who has every been squeezed like a sardine in a one of those winged buses that they call an airline only to be fed on micro-meals that taste like styrofoam has a story of woe about some flight. Sometimes the story is one of horror and sometimes it is funny. Click the above linke to read what has to be one of the funnier complaint letters ever written to an airline about aircraft design. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/07/2005 09:21:00 PM
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Satire Too Close To Truth - Junk in the Making http://onion.com/news/index.php?issue=4124&n=1&id=4211 The Onion is a fantastic source for satire and not a little humor. Last month The Onion ran a story poking fun at the junk we buy that is made in China and how workers there must feel about it all. Having recently gone on a shopping expedition - actually a series of shopping trips - in search of a quiet fan for the old computer room, I can attest that finding a quality product can be a daunting task. One fan in particular was so poorly engineered that the motor immediately started to shake violently. This vibrated the turnbolts loose and the fan casing crashed into the pole with the blade ripping through the casing. After that experience, the article in The Onion hits closer to truth than to satire. Hit the link above for a good spoof of an article on how Chinese workers view making the junk we buy. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/06/2005 09:53:00 PM
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Unprotected PC - 12 Minutes To Live http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050704.gtvirusjul4 /BNStory/Technology/ Putting an uprotected PC on the Internet is like putting your arm in a jar full of mosquitos. You are going to get bitten and most likely within 12 minutes. The full story is at the link above. The story notes that IBM is reporting that more than 30% of email sent in May contained some form of virus contamination. At the same time Sophos is reporting a 59% increase in new viruses in the first half of 2005. If you are going to connect a PC to the Internet, you must have an updated and current anti-virus program running that is capable of scanning incoming email. You should also be running a firewall - preferably a firewall appliance or router, but at least a software firewall. And finally, you need to have anti-spyware software running. Unprotected computing on the Internet is irresponsible and dangerous. In 12 minutes or less you could find that a keystroke logger has been installed on your machne. If you do online banking or credit card transactions, you can bet that your information is being shared and before long your money will be in somebody else's hands. Posted by WEBnME @ 7/05/2005 10:30:00 PM
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