I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that I loved Word 4.0.

Word 5.1 is that for me, but I totally agree with you. Word 5 and 4 were AWESOME.

Dana, Office 2008 on the Mac is pretty cool. Office 2007 on the PC has a lot to be desired. There is a feature that will help you in Word 2007 (and Excel 2007 - I can't speak to Powerpoint because I use it like 3x a year) that is under the Help menu. It literally says something like "where are the commands" and it helps you find where they were in Word 2003 and where they are now.

BTW - I have a Word rant. In all the years that Word has been developed (and I've been using it since 1988/1989 so I've been loyal to it for years across platforms) - why is there no way to search for homonyms?

ita,

not really. there is an add-on you can use, but it doesn't work with imap accounts.

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or you can try this:

lettermelater.com

I've had Safari under OS X and Firefox under XP crash several times already this morning. It appears to be related to the Blackberry Storm flash ads that are pasted all over many sites on the Internet today. Has anyone else noticed this?

no problems with Firefox on Mac today. But I have Adblock Plus installed.

thank you daniel. Of course, now it is saying the DVD copy protect has failed! This is just a Buffy DVD!

You can get a free trial of WinDVD

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You can also check the support site for your computer, there may be a software pack that includes a DVD player as a part of it. DVD player software also sometimes comes with video cards or DVD-ROM drivers if these items are added to the computer post-purchase.

Thank you Gud!

Get out the drool buckets: 24.5-megapixel Nikon D3X announced, super DSLR is company's latest flagship

Nikon's highest-end digital SLR cameras just got a new big brother, and his name is D3X. There's no fancy HD video shooting here — just raw, unadulterated power with 24.5 megapixels under the hood of this hefty, $8000 behemoth. And that steep price is just for the body, lenses not included.

Aimed squarely at pros whose haunts usually include fancy photo studios and major press events, the camera's flagship features give pros that super-high resolution in the full-frame FX format they crave. It can snap off five of those big frames per second at ISO speeds of 100-1600, expandable to 50-6400. And get this: if you shoot in RAW format, one pic will take up 138MB.

Why should we care? Expect the Nikon D3X's super features and ultimate quality to trickle down to cameras within the range of normal people, and look for those cameras to someday include coveted features such as the D3X's EXPEED image processing system

::blinks::

Whoa.

Looking for PC advice:

My current primary desktop PC ~4 years old and has been acting up lately (really sluggish, crashing more than it should, etc.). I'm thinking of using this as an excuse to buy a new one.

I'm perfectly willing to buy parts and build my own (I've done it before). The current one has an Abit KV-80 motherboard with an AMD ATHLON 64 2800+ CPU. I picked these because they were priced at what I'd call a "sweet spot" -- the top of the line before the price started going up dramatically. The thing is, I've no idea where the sweet spot is today. I use it for some beefy sound editing and photoshop stuff, so processor & memory speed are important.

Any suggestions?

NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer?

Get your own supercomputer. Experience cluster level computing performance—up to 250 times faster than standard PCs and workstations—right at your desk. The NVIDIA® Tesla™ Personal Supercomputer is based on the revolutionary NVIDIA® CUDA™ parallel computing architecture and powered by up to 960 parallel processing cores.

Starting at $9,995. Hey, remember when regular computers cost $4000?

Sorry. But it makes me wonder - when is this technology...

NVIDIA CUDA™ technology is the world’s only C language environment that enables programmers and developers to write software to solve complex computational problems in a fraction of the time by tapping into the many-core parallel processing power of GPUs. With millions of CUDA-capable GPUs already deployed, thousands of software programmers are already using the free CUDA software tools to accelerate applications—from video and audio encoding to oil and gas exploration, product design, medical imaging, and scientific research.

...going to become mainstream? (For high-power stuff like video and graphics, anyway)

Are people familiar with this? GPUs (found in graphics cards) are actually far more powerful than CPUs, because they're optimized to perform the same calculations on huge chunks of data (so they can, for example, rapidly calculate lighting, shadows, etc. in video games.) A lot of computing wouldn't benefit from this approach, but stuff that can be parallelized like video processing, scientific calculations and computer modeling can really perform much faster.