Skip to main content

Barry mahfood

Barry mahfood's Public Library

23 May 07

Sniffing Out the Culprit: Troublesome Apps

  • Some folks like to make an unfair comparison between computers and
    cars. You’ve heard the old joke, what would your car be like if it was
    made by Microsoft. As funny as it is, it’s an ignorant analogy. Once
    you buy your car, if you added a new part to it and switched out
    existing parts almost every day, each one made by a different vendor,
    you’d have problems with your car, believe me. If you think about it,
    it’s remarkable that computers work as well as they do, considering
    that the hardware, software and peripherals are all made by different
    vendors and change almost every day.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-23

SINGULARITY & THE PRICE OF RICE - Singularity in Bite-Sized Bits: Accelerated Evolution: Creating New Proteins

  • Researchers at Biodesign Institute have revved the engine of biological
    evolution to unheard of speed, creating completely new proteins in an
    infinitesimal fraction of the time it took nature to do the same thing.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-23

Three Free Things That Will Make Your House Sell Faster (Part One)

  • There are a thousand and one ways to increase a home’s appeal. Some are
    practical, some are not; some are cheap, some are not. Here are the
    three easiest (and free!) things that will make your home sell faster:     - bmahfood on 2007-05-23
22 May 07

Quick Tip: How to Bypass the Recycle Bin

  • Sometimes, when you want to delete a file, you’re sure about it. No
    need for a halfway house. Go directly to oblivion, do not stop at the
    Recycle Bin. I personally feel like I haven’t really deleted something
    when it’s still sitting there in that little garbage pail on my
    desktop, you know?     - bmahfood on 2007-05-22

Schmedley: A Sweet-Looking Start Page

  • Alright, I use Netvibes as my main startpage because it works great for
    my RSS feeds. No question, it does that and a lot more excellently. But
    if you want something beautiful in a startpage, look no further than
    Schmedley.com.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-22

Central Florida Real Estate News: Lenders Acquiring a Friendlier Mien

  • Foreclosures are a nightmare scenario for homeowners (although life, it
    is rumored, does go on), and they're not necessarily a picnic for
    lenders either. According to this
    article on CNNMoney.com, foreclosures cost lenders an average of
    $40,000 each. So there is, thankfully, a reason for them to make
    attempts to keep us in our homes.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-22

Where Would We Be Without Search Engines?

  • In his keynote presentation (which you can watch here)
    at the Killer App Expo in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ray Kurzweil was making
    the point that technological evolution is accelerating. As one example,
    he pointed out how search engines have become an almost crucial part of
    our everyday lives when they didn't even exist just a few years ago.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-22

Multiple Personalities: It's Not a Disorder Anymore

  • I hope you've had a chance to watch Ray Kurzweil's presentation
    on yesterday's post. My interest was piqued by several things he
    mentioned. (I wish I could think about them all at the same time, but
    possessing that kind of capability will have to wait for some heavy
    duty augmentation.) One thing in particular got a good grasp on my
    attention. Ray spent about 2 seconds on the idea that technological
    advances in virtual reality and artificial intelligence will allow me
    to create several virtual personalities to perform the routine
    transactions made necessary by modern life.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-22
21 May 07

How to Avoid Email Faux Pas

  • Almost nothing identifies a person as a technoob (that’s my term for
    someone who’s new to or otherwise clueless about technology)  more
    quickly than sending out batch emails with everyone’s address plainly
    visible to every recipient. Why is this a problem? In some cases it’s
    not, but in many cases people would rather not have you broadcast their
    email addresses hither and yon.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-21

Is the Real Estate Brokerage Business Undergoing a Revolution?

  • Some say yes, others say no. Just as with most controversial topics,
    the answer is not clear cut and depends on whom you ask. A recent article on the SignOnSanDiego.com web site reflects this equivocal state of affairs.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-21

BARRY'S BEST COMPUTER TIPS - They'll Change Your Life: Corral Your Tabs in Firefox

  • Don't you just love tabbed browsing? Now you can love it even more with
    this Firefox extension. It's called Separate Tabs, and it works by
    grouping your open tabs according to the parent web site. As an added
    feature, you can plunk down any tab into any group manually.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-21

Ray Kurzweil Speaks! The Singularity Explained

  • I wish everyone would watch this presentation by Ray at the Killer App
    Expo in Fort Wayne, Indiana. There's a natural skepticism people feel
    when they first hear or read about the predictions made by Ray's Law of
    Accelerating Returns, but when you listen to him explain how it has
    worked and will work, you can't help but take him seriously.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-21

Live a Different (Mini) Life

  • Although the current crop of online virtual worlds seem like the Model-T when compared to future VR,
    they still hold an attraction. No matter how happy you may be with your
    current life, there will always be a part of you that wonders what it
    would be like to be someone else, someplace else, somewhen else. And let's face it, practically no one is completely satisfied with what the have going. So we are already heading in droves over to sites like MyMiniLife.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-21
20 May 07

An Ounce of Prevention: Create a Password Reset Disk

  • No one likes to think about the worst happening, but it happened to a
    friend of mine. My friend (and I assure you, it wasn’t me), let’s call
    her June, had an administrator password on her XP machine so that the
    kids’ computer access could be somewhat controlled. Well, somehow she
    forgot the password, and it wasn’t written down anywhere. Mistakes were
    made. Guess what she found out. It’s not very easy to recover a lost
    Windows password.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-20

Attention Mind-Mappers - Bubble-Mind is Here

  • Are you a mind-map aficionado? Do you think in terms of bubbles? Then
    Bubble-Mind is for you. Seriously, many very smart people have
    increased their productivity by using mind-mapping tools, which are
    just visual ways of organizing ideas.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-20

Find Commercial Listings: MyNextDeal.com

  • Hey, residential real estate may be in a slump, but commercial isn't.
    Here's a great web site that aggregates commercial real estate listings
    across the U.S.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-20

Machine Consciousness: No Practical Value?

  • I read an interesting article this morning from the Burlington Free Press
    featuring the work of Josh Bongard, hired by the University of Vermont
    as an assistant professor of computer science. The article focused much
    of its attention on Bongard's self-aware robot, Black Starfish.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-20
19 May 07

What’s the Windows Key Good For?

  • As keyboards get fancier and more complex, with all sorts of special
    keys for opening your favorite applications and web sites, or turning
    up the volume and making it rain, it’s good to know which are the truly
    useful keys and why they’re so useful. One such key, you might say a
    really key key, is the one
    with the Windows logo on it that sits nestled between Ctrl and Alt on
    the lower left. Pressing the Windows key and and some other ones in
    combination can be great shortcuts to some very important things.
    Here’s a list:     - bmahfood on 2007-05-19

Say Goodbye to Windows Explorer: Get xplorer²

  • When you can get something for free that works better than something
    that comes with Windows, you should go for it. Anything that makes your
    life easier and more productive is a big plus, right? So why put up
    with the limited functionality of Windows Explorer when there are
    better options available for zero pesetas? There is no reason, unless
    you despise change even when it's good for you. Otherwise, read on.     - bmahfood on 2007-05-19
1 - 20 of 158 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page

Sponsored Links

Ads by Google

Highlighter, Sticky notes, Tagging, Groups and Network: integrated suite dramatically boosting research productivity. Learn more »

Join Diigo