Subscriber Joe Tann wrote with a video problem: Terry, I need you help. Lately my monitor picture begins to occasionally on a random basis do the “shimmeys” (very thin lines of black spread across screen in varying bunches of intervals and the lines begin to vibrate but picture on screen is still discernible albeit distorted) [...]
Internet Clocks for Fun
No, I’m not writing about finding pictures of famous clocks like Big Ben. Let’s look at some of the clocks that are programmed to display on web sites. First, my all time favorite, the Industrious Clock from Yugo Nakamura. This clock displays years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds in a unique method — as [...]
What is Microsoft Silverlight – What is Silverlight?
I’ve been asked several times about Microsoft Silverlight — what is it and do I need it. Silverlight is Microsoft’s competition for Adobe Flash Player. It’s designed to play videos and allow interaction with the program. My initial thoughts were that I didn’t need it. I had no application that required it and I did [...]
Internet Conference Call – Internet Video Conference
We’ve had the ability to do conference calls by telephone for a long time. Many phone packages, especially cell phone packages, enable you to do conference calls with little effort. And, now that we have Internet Telephony available, we now can place our phone calls — and our conference calls via the Internet! One service [...]
New LCD Monitor – Flat Panel Monitor – Flat Panel LCD
For the last six years, my primary computer has been a notebook computer. The flat panel LCD in the notebook made a fantastic monitor for me. First, I used a Dell Inspiron 5000, with a 1400×1050 resolution. Then, until very recently, I used a Dell Inspiron 8600 with a widescreen 1680×1050 resolution. I love the [...]
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