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Thursday, November 24, 2005
PC Magazine WindowsXP Security Book
PC Magazine is publishing a massive tome on how to fix windozeXP security. PC Magazine Windows XP Security Solutions (available mid-December) is 456 pages filled with everything you shouldn't have ever needed to know about windoze. A book this size, on this topic, delivers a simple but powerful message - Buy a Mac.
Terry Frazier at 9:43 PM
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Robotic Book Scanner for High-Volume Digital Conversion
This is very cool a non-destructive robotic scanner for books. The video of this thing at work is nice. [via Tim Oren]
Bookbots
Maybe not as world shaking as milbots or healthbots, but if you're Google or Amazon, or possessed of a very large dead tree library, you'll want Kirtas Technologies' Bookscan (check out the video). If you've ever had to get legacy printed material into a scanning or OCR system, hands-on or just paying the bills, you'll appreciate it. Gadgets like this as well as the search engines' book indexing projects will slowly break down the "Internet Event Horizon" that's made a lot of information created before the mid-1990s invisible to the net.
Terry Frazier at 1:08 PM
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Monday, November 7, 2005
The Daily Drucker
The Daily Drucker makes a great holiday gift for that hard-to-please businessman, executive, or entrepreneur on your shopping list. Far more useful than those insipid success accessories or a bad tie, The Daily Drucker offers a small bites of wisdom from the most respected business thinker of our time. [More...]
Terry Frazier at 6:44 PM
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