• Check your “Windows Update”.

Well, Windows Vista already incorporates that technology:

• If “Tablet PC Optional Components” is not enabled, enable it. To enable, travel to:

  Control Panel\Programs and Features\Turn Windows Features On or Off 

  and check the “Tablet PC Optional Components” box.

• Travel to {Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Snipping Tool
• Click on “New”, drag cursor around the section(s) you wish to capture

They’re coming and it will be difficult to get away without having one. Google Profiles will be integrated in most Google services so you have a coherent identity and a simple way to manage your contacts.

“A Google Profile is simply how you represent yourself on Google products — it lets you tell others a bit more about who you are and what you’re all about. You control what goes into your Google Profile, sharing as much (or as little) as you’d like.”

Until now, you could create profiles in Blogger, orkut, Google Groups, Google Co-op and all of them could contain different information. You could also add photos in Gmail, Google Talk and orkut, so the situation started to become confusing.

The new Google profiles are already available in Shared Stuff, Google Maps, Google Reader and will be added to other web applications. For example, in Google Maps you’ll find the link to your profile at the top of the page.

Profiles are public and contain basic information about yourself: a nickname (the real name is displayed only to your contacts), your occupation, your location, a list of links, a photo and a short description. They are embedded as iframes in pages that showcase user-generated content (personalized maps, shared bookmarks).

It’s not a stretch to see that these profiles are the perfect host for your activity streams and your public activities could become a part of the profile (uploading photos to a public album, bookmarking web pages, posting a new blog post). It’s basically FrindFeed‘s widget that can be contemplated at Paul Buchheit’s blog.

A side-effect of the public availability of your profile is that people can find it. “Can people do a Google search for my name and find this profile? It depends. If you put your full name in the Nickname field, pages on which your profile appears may be returned as results by Google.” You can already find more than 100 profiles attached to Google Maps pages. Maybe Google will even create a directory for profiles and start to suggest friends based on personal descriptions, location and activity streams.

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Tomy’s i-SOBOT usually requires users to punch in one of 147 different keycodes on its monster handheld controller to get things moving, but a couple enterprising hackers have developed a control system that lets you get it on mo-cap style using a Wiimote and the nunchuk attachment. The secret is the upcoming Robodance 4 software, which maps the i-SOBOTs commands to the Wiimote and a GUI for complex scripted macros — which means it’ll be even easier to pretend that the bot is actually your real friend. Check a vid of the system in action, apparently shot in someone’s underground bunker, after the break.

http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/articles/5591118/jblcareer

After 20 months at the SmackDown announce desk, John Bradshaw Layfield is returning to the ring ready to throw punches instead of verbal barrages.

Believe it or not, his extensive championship-laden résumé speaks louder and more forcefully than the opinionated SmackDown commentator ever did on Friday nights. The self-proclaimed “wrestling god” is the second-longest reigning WWE Champion of the past decade, holding the title in 2004-05. He is also a three-time World Tag Team Champion as a member of the APA with Ron Simmons.

Renowned for his rugged toughness over the years, JBL held the now-retired Hardcore Title 18 times during his career and competed in some of the most-brutal matches in WWE history – a Barbed-Wire Steel Cage Match and a Texas Bull-Rope Match.

After the APA disbanded in 2004, the patriotic JBL arrived on SmackDown, winning a “Great American Award” and soon after, the WWE Championship. The Texas tycoon created a Cabinet of Superstars to support and protect him inside and outside the ring. Their influence, combined with JBL’s in-ring tactics, helped the Wall Street maven hold onto his title for a then-record 10 months.

In 2006, JBL added more gold to his trophy case, winning the United States Championship at WrestleMania 22 – very fitting for a man who bleeds red, white and blue, and is widely regarded as the innovator of WWE’s annual Tribute to the Troops tour. However, his title reign was short-lived as Bobby Lashley defeated the tycoon in May 2006, and in the same night, Rey Mysterio defeated JBL in a stipulated World Championship Match that forced the millionaire to retire from in-ring action until now.

As Tazz left the SmackDown announce team to join ECW, JBL found a new home broadcasting with Michael Cole. He also expanded his business influence on Wall Street, making weekly appearances on the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel, and has started several entrepreneurial efforts. Since then, other than some run-ins with the likes of Batista, Undertaker and Rey Mysterio, JBL has attacked SmackDown Superstars with his words alone through the announcers’ headset. Again, until now.

During Chris Jericho’s accidental contact with JBL at Armageddon and further insulted the former WWE Champion on Raw, Y2J has become Enemy No. 1 for the “wrestling god.”

As the self-proclaimed diety of the ring, will JBL rain down heavens of pain and punishment onto the Second Coming for his infraction? If past performance is any indication, look for the former WWE Champion to cash in, adding to his already success-filled legacy.