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Sites Wednesday, 14 July 2010-Mars imagery on WorldWide Telescope-Outlook Social Connector-Critical thinking-Largest image in world-Live Movie Maker PC Mag Editor’s choice-Live OneCare problem solved

Today’s sites: Bing – Android client coming: www.liveside.net/bingblog/ Connect to your favorite social network using Outlook: office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/ Connect your Inbox to Facebook and Windows Live with the Outlook Social Connector: blogs.office.com/b/office_blog/ Critical Thinking Roundup – Howard Rheingold, Bing at ISTE: www.huffingtonpost.com/betsy-aoki/ Microsoft and NASA bring new Mars imagery to WorldWide Telescope: www.liveside.net/bingblog/ Outlook just got [...]

Sites Sunday, 27 June 2010 Part I–Bing Finance, Computing guide for boomers, Internet literacy & credibility, Critical thinking, Add-ins for Expression Web, Decoding Microsoft’s numbers

Because webDotWiz had been concentrating so much on the beta release of Windows Live Essentials, there were lots of sites that should have been listed earlier so he’s catching up. Links to sites for Sunday, 27 June Part I: Adora Svitak on Critical Thinking and 21st Century Detectives: www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/ Astronomers discover the coldest stars yet: [...]

Journey to the centre of the universe with WorldWide Telescope – webDotWiz Online Sep 24 2009

To begin your journey to the centre of the universe, you need to download and install the Windows desktop version of WorldWide Telescope from www.worldwidetelescope.org. If you find your computer is a bit old and the graphics aren’t up to running WWT (we’ll use this abbreviation for WorldWide Telescope to save screen space) or if [...]

Free antivirus software – Microsoft Security Essentials – webDotWiz Online Oct 8, 2009

For many years webDotWiz has been pressing the point that there’s no excuse for a computer to be running without antivirus and malware protection because there have been a number of free antivirus programs available. Unfortunately some of these have slowed down our computer systems and there’s been the continual nagging to buy the full [...]

A day in the life of Windows Live – webDotWiz Online column Oct 22, 2209

Live Photo Gallery So your young ‘uns have made you set up a Facebook account but you don’t really feel like adding much to your Facebook pages when you’ve already got lots of services in Windows Live. You’ve just uploaded some photos to an album on Live Photos to share with your family and friends [...]

Apollo 12 – Transcript of first few minutes of launch – Problems

From Apollo 12 Flight Journal – Launch and reaching earth orbit – http://history.nasa.gov/ap12fj/01launch_to_earth_orbit.htm Time is GET – ground elapsed time – which begins counting at lift-off and is used during the complete flight until splash down. 000:00:00 Conrad: Lift-off. The clock’s running. 000:00:05 Conrad: I got a yaw program. [pause.] 000:00:06 Bean (onboard): Six seconds. [...]

Get to know the new Live Movie Maker – webDotWiz Column August 27 2009

New features When you first run Windows Live Movie Maker (after downloading it from download.live.com), you’ll notice it uses the Ribbon menu. If you’re an Office 2007 user, you know how the Ribbon improves your workflow by enabling you to hover over a menu item and seeing its effect on your work; if you decide [...]

Finding stuff and tools that help do it with Bing – webDotWiz Column August 13 2009 (updated August 16 with screenshots)

Tools to help find stuff When using your favorite search site to find information on some topic or other, it’s all well and good to be told that there are so many zillion results found. Who’s got time to trawl through 1 200 000 sites to find some information? The Bing search site helps you [...]

Apollo 11 re-enactment – Pencils ready? Re-entry details

At Ground Elapsed Time (GET) 186:28 hours, Apollo Mission Control released the following details in relation to Columbia’s entry into the Earth’s atmosphere and landing in the Pacific Ocean (taken from the transcript at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11transcript_pao.htm): This is Apollo Control 186 hours 28 minutes Ground Elapsed Time. 8 hours 35 minutes to entry. Crew of Columbia [...]