Excel as a database

Rory Blyth - Neopoleon.com:

As a developer, you've probably, at some unfortunate point in your life (possibly several points, actually), been handed an Excel file that has been crammed full of 'data' by someone in marketing and told to 'do something with it.'

Twingine: search google and yahoo at the same time

Twingine

Akihabara News : Star Wars USB keys

Akihabara News : Your Leading News provider on Gadgets and Hi-Tech stuff from Akihabara in Tokyo Japan and in other Asian Countries

We STILL have not been able to go out and see the latest Star Wars here in Japan, so we'll have to be happy with some USB (2.0) memory keys (256Mb) that have the main characters of the movie printed on them. No info on the price yet, but they should be available from July onwards.

120 Volt LED Light Bulb, 1.3 Watts, 18 LEDs at Cyberguys.com

120 Volt LED Light Bulb, 1.3 Watts, 18 LEDs at Cyberguys.com

Imagine a light bulb that lasts 10 years and consumes only 2-3 watts of power... LED technology has made it possible! These LED replacement bulbs are smaller than standard bulbs and screw into standard light sockets. Perfect for hard-to-reach installations where bulbs are difficult to change. If left on for 12 hours a day for a year, one of these bulbs would use about $1 worth of electricity.

The Five Stages of Intel Macs

The Joy of Tech! -- The Five Stages of Intel Macs

Engadget - Thermaltake fanboys

Engadget - www.engadget.com
I wonder how much these guys were paid, probably not enough. Maybe they were promised dates with the booth babes.

Booth babes we’ve heard of, but quite why Taiwanese CPU cooler manufacturer Thermaltake felt compelled to field an army of helmeted geeks (CPU-fan-cooled helmets, no less) at Computex last week is totally beyond us. NVIDIA apparently one-upped them with a stand where you could get a cone of green ice cream for yelling the company’s slogan into a megaphone, though.

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: 10 Mammouth CPU Coolers: Size Does Matter - Conclusion

Tom's Hardware Guide Processors: 10 Mammouth CPU Coolers: Size Does Matter - Conclusion:

Conclusion

The Vanessa (L-Type) by Titan stands out, for its particularly good cooling capacity and extravagant design features. The Sonic Tower by Thermaltake also boasts an impressive cooling capacity, and if passive operation isn't feasible, an optional 120 mm fan can be added, albeit at an additional cost.

If you don't have a lot of space in your computer, the CNPS7700 Cu from Zalman is a good option, offering good cooling capacity with minimal noise emission at a reasonable price. Athlon XP users would do well to go for NorthQ's NQ 3312 model: it can be installed even on Socket A motherboards without retention module holes.

The losers in this test were the Vortex TX from Cooler Master and the StarIce from Asus. In both cases, either the cooling capacity was too low or the noise level was too high.

Tom's Hardware Guide Displays: Finding the Best 19" LCD Monitor for Your Application - Introduction

Tom's Hardware Guide Displays: Finding the Best 19" LCD Monitor for Your Application - Introduction:

We selected 19' LCD monitors that heavy hitter vendors tout as some of the best they've got. With response rates ranging from 8 to 25 ms, their superlatives also remain tied to the application, whether you want to run Photoshop, office apps or watch DVDs--and don't forget about gaming.

AnandTech News: Steve Jobs confirms Apple's switch to Intel processors

AnandTech News: Steve Jobs confirms Apple's switch to Intel processors:

At his keynote address today at WWDC2005, Steve Jobs announced that Apple is indeed making a switch to Intel processors. What this change means to the current Mac community and the development of the Mac platform remains to be seen, but Apple will have some tough times ahead switching to a new architecture. Here's a summary from MacNN:

Two major transitions for Mac: 68K to PowerPC. Next Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X. Now time for third transition. Transition to Intel-based Macs. Developers Now. Next year for users. 'Because we want to make the best computers for our customers.' No G5 PowerBook yet. Future products can't be build on IBM of PowerPC. Intel has performance and better performance per watt. Intel delivers much better performance per watt. Starting next year the first Macs with Intel processors. Shipping by next WWDC. Mostly complete by 2007 WWDC. Complete by the end of 2007. Two-year transition. [10:28 am] Blank

Synergy: share a single mouse/keyboard between multiple computer systems & displays

About Synergy

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Just saw this from this website vidmar.net/weblog and it had an item about this app

With synergy, all the computers on your desktop form a single virtual screen. You use the mouse and keyboard of only one of the computers while you use all of the monitors on all of the computers. You tell synergy how many screens you have and their positions relative to one another. Synergy then detects when the mouse moves off the edge of a screen and jumps it instantly to the neighboring screen. The keyboard works normally on each screen; input goes to whichever screen has the cursor.

In this example, the user is moving the mouse from left to right. When the cursor reaches the right edge of the left screen it jumps instantly to the left edge of the right screen.

You can arrange screens side-by-side, above and below one another, or any combination. You can even have a screen jump to the opposite edge of itself. Synergy also understands multiple screens attached to the same computer.

Running a game and don't want synergy to jump screens? No problem. Just toggle Scroll Lock. Synergy keeps the cursor on the same screen when Scroll Lock is on.

Do you wish you could cut and paste between computers? Now you can! Just copy text, HTML, or an image as you normally would on one screen then switch to another screen and paste it. It's as if all your computers shared a single clipboard (and separate primary selection for you X11 users). It even converts newlines to each computer's native form so cut and paste between different operating systems works seamlessly. And it does it all in Unicode so any text can be copied.

Do you use a screen saver? With synergy all your screen savers act in concert. When one starts they all start. When one stops they all stop. And, if you require a password to unlock the screen, you'll only have to enter a password on one screen.

If you regularly use multiple computers on one desk, give synergy a try. You'll wonder how you ever lived without it.