Apple. Never Use Hotmail, Inactive Webmail As Your Secondary Email Acco. @TheFu: Your suggestion is a good one, but I have an aversion to ISP email accounts for one reason: If I move or switch ISP's, I lose it.
I probably wouldn't have thought that was a big deal for the purpose of using it to register online, but then I read this article. Not having access to it later can hurt you. For some of the more frivolous online registrations, that might be ok, but for anything you plan on using for a while, you need access to that address indefinitely. @tonyx3: I think the point of this is to be used as your secondary account. @psychiccheese: Indeed, and for major accounts remembering this switch isn't too hard, and for the plethora of fairly unimportant accounts, it is, well, unimportant. But what about the various forum registrations and other sites that fall somewhere in the middle, important enough to matter if you lose it, but not enough to remember to switch. What I do: I use a 'semi-secondary' address for my registrations. Sound wave neurosurgery. The thought of focused ultrasonic beams burning away brain tissue isn't exactly comfortable, but when you factor in not having your skull opened up — well, then it's starting to sound better.
The procedure involves an ultrasonic device paired up with an MRI machine, the latter of which pinpoints places for the sound waves to focus on and burn. Nine patients in Switzerland have already been operated on using high-intensity focused ultrasound (or HIFU). They were only chronic pain sufferers suffered from chronic pain, and the success of the operations make researchers hopeful that similar techniques can be used to combat other conditions, such as Parkinson's disease. The procedure has been used before to remove uterine fibroids (or small, benign tumors in the uterus), and looks like a promising candidate to eliminate tumors from breasts and, hopefully, the brain. Via Technology Review. Five Best Screencasting Tools - Screencast - Lifehacker. @TuxBobble: depends on how poor the competition is.
I've tried Camstudio and Jing and both are, basically, crap. Jing point-blank refuses to work, whereas Camstudio can see my soundcard but is inexplicably incompatible with it, not to mention the videos it record are terrible - jerky, messed up picture that bears no resemblance to what was actually showing on-screen. I'm going to give Screentoaster a try but, if it's as poor as the other two, for Windows that pretty much leaves Camtasia to win by default. @Step666: I'm very hopeful that you're right. Otherwise, it just confirms the depressing piracy statistics we hear about all the time. @TuxBobble: as I'm not a software engineer, I would have to be honest and say that my view on piracy is probably a little different to your own.
It's not that I fully condone it, merely that I feel that if software was priced a little more realistically, then the motivation to pirate it would disappear. @Step666: Agreed entirely. #speakup. The Pen and The Keyboard. Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech.
In these articles, he'll explore where our industry is and where it's going -- on both micro and macro levels -- with the unique wit and insight only he can provide. When it comes to futuristic concepts, few ideas have captured the imagination like pen-based computing. The idea of doing away with a cumbersome keyboard for navigating and entering information has been a Holy Grail ever since Captain Kirk signed his first digital clipboard in space, but here in our century the concept has met with little success. Most recently, Microsoft's Tablet PC operating system has failed to take the world by storm, and lots of platforms, from the Momenta PC and Pen Windows, to the Newton and the PalmPilot, have come and gone while failing to shift the masses from their keyboards. Raise awareness.