![]() ![]() The San Diego suggestions don't mesh with those of our man on the ground. picks tells you what restaurants and bars are being recommended by Twitter users. You pay $6 if your offer is accepted and you get a postage-paid shipping label. ![]() If you have a Macbook, iPhone or Blackberry, you might want to check out, which sells colorful silicon "skins" for your gadgets. You can see a You-Tube demonstration video at /washkey. Unotron sells a corded version for $46 and a wireless version for $80, and the mouse runs $50 to $60. Bob would rather just cover his keyboard with a cloth when he's not using it. Joy finds that she doesn't type quite as fast on this keyboard as she did on her HP, (the keys are a bit stiff) but the cleanliness makes it worthwhile. We just use vinegar from the grocery store. The company says you should either immerse the keyboard or mouse in a hospital-grade antibacterial solution or run tap water over it. The new "SpillSeal" keyboard from Unotron has sealed casings that prevent food, drink or dust and dirt from entering the keyboard where they can't be flushed out. Joy took one look at all the crud that had accumulated in her current Hewlett-Packard keyboard and decided she wanted a washable one. What with swine flu and other contagious diseases, you might want to give your college-bound child a washable computer keyboard. The yuck factor in college dorms is pretty high these days. We like Bing for other reasons, and one of them is the beautiful pictures that are changed every day. ![]() There are other sites that do this, but Microsoft is the only site that gives all of their sales commission back to the purchaser. If you buy things through Microsoft's search engine, you can get up to 50 percent cash back on some items, like flowers and shoes. Many products are counterfeited, from clothes to mechanical parts that could cause critical failure in some situations. The technology has obvious applications beyond differentiating real pharmaceuticals from fake. ![]() Even after being broken apart, each piece still contains all of its encoded information, much like a hologram. Unlike the RFID (radio frequency identification) tags that have become common, TruTags can be broken into pieces, or heated to 1,000 degrees and still retain their information. The TruTag is made from a porous silicon wafer that has been etched with identifying codes chosen from more than a trillion possibilities. A company called Cellular Bioengineering has just come out with an edible micro-tag called a "TruTag." In fact, at least one company has already done it. It's estimated that 10 percent of the prescription drugs sold worldwide are fakes.īut : if you could embed a tiny maker's tag in each pill, it could be checked for authenticity. If you're not sure what yours is, click on "Account" at Amazon and look at the Kindle section. To avoid the fee, e-mail them to yourself at - "name" being the name given to you as part of a special e-mail address when you register your Kindle. Speaking of the Kindle, you can e-mail PDFs to your Kindle without converting them, but Amazon will charge you for this. (If you have the new and larger Kindle DX, you can read PDFs without converting them.) The new Omni can also convert scanned PDFs into the proprietary format used by Amazon's electronic book reader, Kindle, and send them to the Kindle in one step. PaperPort is a marvelous way to quickly and easily organize anything that is scanned into the computer. It comes packaged with ScanSoft's PaperPort 11 and Nuance's PDF maker. You can put a document on your scanner and a few seconds later have it sent to your Microsoft Sharepoint network in any format you want. It now recognizes Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The new version lets you upload multiple files much faster than previously and automatically adds clickable OCR commands to your Microsoft Office programs. The Mac version is called OmniPage Pro X. It has some features that might make the $500 sticker price easier to take. We just got a look at the new OmniPage Pro from Nuance, which is just out in version 17. To make that picture a set of words that can be edited and searched, you need an Optical Character Recognition program (OCR), such as OmniPage, Abbyy Fine-Reader or Iris. LITTLE ROCK If you ever scan a book or magazine page, you'll find that the result is a picture of the page, not words you can edit. ![]()
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