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Before he narrated the audio book of his children’s literary classic, “Charlotte’s Web,” (downloadable at Amazon’s Audible.com), or did a stretch writing for The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer, E.B. White took on the challenge of rewriting “The Elements of Style” a manifesto on English language usage originally authored by White’s Cornell college professor, William Strunk, in 1918. ”E.B.” described the precedent [...]
When New York Times’ tech columnist David Pogue created a series of “How-to” guides for the Mac in 2002, the title he chose for the O’Reilly publications bare a not-so-subtle truth. Pogue dubbed his series ”The Missing Manual” since the Apple Computer products that you, a family member or a colleague, may have plunked down close to four figures to [...]
A new era in television begins this holiday season where your entertainment becomes instantly searchable, easily discoverable and enjoyable in extraordinary new ways from a single device — Xbox 360. Microsoft has announced plans to roll out the next generation of TV entertainment on Xbox LIVE, the online entertainment service for Xbox 360. Nearly 40 [...]
Microsoft unveiled the new Windows 8 OS yesterday at its annual Build Conference, but you can get the early preview right here. You can install this Developer version on a 32-bit or a 64-bit x86 machines and activation is not required, but don’t assume there won’t be many changes to come. A landscape view [...]
The extended weather forecast may be for “cloud-based” storage of your valuable computer files, but if you plan on interacting with those files anywhere under the stratosphere, like your computer desktop for instance, we would advise adopting an “umbrella strategy.” This is not a “bald” (eagle) assertion. For example, the ballooning size of music and [...]
As the digital world parallels the daily pattern of our lives in “snail space,” it introduces many time-saving efficiencies provided each of us is “handy” at the computer keyboard and tapping words into our iPhone or iPad. But if you often find yourself typing the same thing repeatedly – directions, instructions, or requests for information – [...]
Master storyteller Mike Daisey turns his lens to Apple and Steve Jobs in The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, playing for four weeks only—April 22-May 22, 2011—in Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Bagley Wright Theatre. Tickets are available now through the Seattle Rep Box Office at 206-443-2222 as well as online at www.seattlerep.org. Daisey workshopped [...]
WeFeedback.org, an innovative new social media engagement platform launched by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is using the power of social media to raise the funds needed to feed tens of thousands of hungry children around the world. “Individual giving is playing an increasingly important role in mobilizing funds for the hungry, and WeFeedback is providing [...]
With a New, “Ferry-Close” Location, Custom-Designed Building, and Interactive Web Site, KiDiMu, the Kids Discovery Museum of Bainbridge Island, Wash., Clicks With Kids of All Ages The perfect Puget Sound day trip? A Washington State Ferry practically pulls up to its front door. Imaginative? The new building has been designed from the ground up to include exhibits like a [...]
