Hands On: Image Composite Editor–Microsoft Offers A Free Pano Creator
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If you were thinking of writing a panorama stitcher and then selling it to make your fortune–forget it. This market is closed! There is a plethora of free pano stitchers, the latest being . Microsoft refers to it as ICE. It’s Windows only and available for free.
I downloaded and installed it [...]
Atomic Symbols in Word 2007
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Q: I need to write atomic symbols in word 2007. I don’t know how familiar you are with chemistry, but this would mean having superscript and subscript directly on top of each other, or using an equation. I cannot find the right equation for what I need, and I don’t know if I [...]
Google’s Android App Market: 23 Apps, 8 Games
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along with Google’s counterpart to Apple’s App Store: the App Market. The App Market looks and works a lot like the App Store; you can preview apps and read user ratings and reviews before buying. It’s a lot less populated than Apple’s store, of course. Apps in the App Market fall into two categories, [...]
Machiavelli, Medici Come Alive In Rushdie’s Siren Song: Review
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Akbar the Great, Niccolo Machiavelli and Lorenzo de’Medici spring to life in Salman Rushdie’s culture- spanning new novel, each falling under the spell of the siren who steals men’s hearts and the book’s title.
“The Enchantress of Florence” takes the form of a story within a story, borrowing from the history and myths of both East [...]
Christophe Honor On Liberty And Love Songs
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In this week’s Guardian I write about Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs. Honoré recently answered some questions about the film via email. Dive below for thoughts on cross-dressing and Jacques Demy, and also a contemporary booklist for young gay men who read.
SFBG: Gal Morel has a brief Hitchcock-like cameo early on in Love Songs. Was this [...]
Studios Should Look To Trent Reznor For Future Of Distribution
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There was an article over the weekend in the New York Times about new tactics Warner Brothers is planning to boost flagging DVD sales. Warner plans to release direct-to-DVD companion films alongside new releases in the future, in an attempt to build buzz for the later DVD release of the main feature. What they really [...]
Prince Caspian Is A Vision To Behold
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the second entry in the Chronicles of Narnia series, is a glorious medieval war movie. It’s about war as the ultimate pitch of conflict that tries men’s souls, and women’s, too, in director-co-writer Andrew Adamson’s liberated, post-feminist rendering of C.S. Lewis’ novel.
The battle between good and evil couldn’t be more clearly drawn. But the movie [...]
If Edmonds Produces Fickle Cubdom Will Love Him
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The idea is to win the World Series, right? In an era of laterally mobile athletes who change uniforms quicker than they switch road girlfriends, it’s absolutely silly to hold a grudge against Edmonds because he used to play for the rival Cardinals. I seem to recall some locals flipping out when the Bulls acquired [...]
Face Time Instead of Facebook Time
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Medium of Isolation
“In this sample, the Internet was used extensively for communication,” according to the authors of the study. “Nonetheless, greater use of the Internet was associated with declines in participants’ communication with family members in the household, declines in the size of their social circle, and increases in their depression and loneliness.”
However, there is [...]
INSIGHTSIs Psystar Onto Something?
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Hardware Looks Like a Good Deal
There are potential drawbacks to a deal like this, including Apple’s army of attack lawyers and policy of death to usurpers. But we’ll discuss those later.
Right now, the hardware looks like a good deal. With a 2.2 GHz Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) Core2Duo processor, 2 gigabytes of memory, 250 gigabyte [...]
