If you have ever sat in a meeting or a lecture where the presenter was churning out notes onto a whiteboard, you have undoubtedly thought that there must be better way to get the notes on the board into your computer without scribbling furiously to get every word down. ScanR (www.scanr.com) provides, for the time being, a free service that does just that.

In 5th grade I would have died laughing if someone said I had a PPP Link Control error. However, nowadays when my Treo tells me this while I'm trying to use DUN I get a little irritated. It's probably the same for you. Luckily, there's a quick and easy workaround you can do until there's an official fix released.

You've heard the expression "Setting yourself up for disaster", well, this article will NOT help you do that. This is a follow-up to my article about backing up your system. I can't tell you how many times I've seen hard drives go out and people scramble to find their system disks. Frankly, loosing track of your system disks is just stupid. Especially the disks with the drivers.

I love geek gadgets, but I love geek gadgets with ingenuity and a sense of whimsy most of all. Enter the Do It Yourself geek projects that populate the internet, like building your own PC, mod-ing your Mac, hacking your Apple TV and more. With all of that high end tech handiwork going on, what's left for the handy geek with a lower budget? How about a DIY MP3 Player?

I completed the SAS Base 9 exam just after it's production release last July. Since I'm often seeing questions regarding the certification tests on the SAS listserv, I thought I would post some of my thoughts regarding the experience. Call it a preemptive strike.

First, let me say I definitely recommend the prep guide, available here. As with all SAS Publishing books it's expensive and dense, but the practice exams are helpful and it remains a useful reference after you've used it to pass the test. SAS also offers online test preparations which are similar to the prep book, but integrate actual syntax writing and a comprehensive practice test. They are more than twice as much, but when I was preparing SAS was offering a free 90 day "desk copy" to educators. That offer appears to be gone, but a list of current discounts on prep materials and exam fees is available here.

We're all trying in our own little way to save the earth. Some of us buy a hybrid car (cause electricity comes from magic, no pollutive by products there, huh?), some of us try to be less wasteful in other ways. My contribution? I have a cardboard file box full of old batteries. Some are rechargeable laptop batteries that refuse to charge, some are old cell phone batteries, some are those little mercury button cells from various electronic gadgets, laser pointers, etc. Regardless, I have a lot of old batteries. Why? My conscious won't allow me to throw these old batteries in the regular trash, and another reason? I have no idea where the hell to dispose of these safely. Now that my wife is bugging me to get rid of stuff, I had to take positive steps.

Stick with me here. In the beginning Nintendo visualized a great, revolutionary, "change the way we think about video games", gaming console. Someone said "Such a revolutionary device needs a revolutionary name.

The free online encyclopedia and Web 2.0 phenom Wikipedia now has some competition with this week's launch of Citizendium. Larry Sanger, alleged co-creator of Wikipedia, has launched the new site which is similar to its predecessor and is an answer to many of the problems that Wikipedia readers and contributors face: vandalism, content inconsistencies and serial overwriting.

Soon you can have the all of the Photoshop with none of the price tag. In a move to compete with Google's Picasa web application and the free digital imaging software Gimp, Adobe has plans to create a web version of Photoshop that users can access for free. How can they make it accessible for free? They are planning a complex ad share set up that would finance the use of the software online in exchange for ad views, though that is subject to change.

Apple TVs shipped March 20th, and Apple TV customers are already cracking, hacking, and upgrading their new toy. Lucky for us, they are also blogging it and making videos about it. Since I chose to wait to get one - in case they add some upgraded features - I've been tracking and bookmarking the information being put online. I want to be able to go back to my "Apple TV Unleashed" folder later on and do some of these upgrades myself.Hopefully, keeping a similar folder in your browser's favorites will help you find your own solution to your Apple TV questions. Please keep in mind that cracking the shell on your new Apple TV to upgrade the hard drive or perform some of these other upgrades and hacks will definitely void your Apple Care warranty.