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2002

518 posts

Free Classical Music

If you want to support musical artist that do not have major recording labels and score some legally distributed and downloaded MP3's visit this site.

Proxy Server List Site

I keep finding Gems and this is another Gem! If your ISP does not offer a Proxy Server I would recommend using one. You usually do not see a performance hit sometimes you actually get a increase in transfer speeds. Your mileage will vary. Anyway this site has a list of Proxy Servers that is updated daily. http://www.stayinvisible.com/index.html

File Sharing Portal

I have spent some today reviewing this site and it is going to go into my daily read. I think you will like the content of this site.

Do you want to use your fingerprint to pay for food

As I have a pretty active personal Internet footprint. I am all for privacy on-line and I loath those companies that spy on our every move on the net. So I was very surprised to read this story about how a pilot program is allowing people to use there finger print to pay for food through linking to there credit

Is AIM spying on You

I am a old school die hard that bashes AOL every chance I get. But this article is a defnite read if you use the AOL Instant Messenger. (Editors Choice is ICQ) http://pedram.redhive.com/advisories/aim+%20spyware.txt

Light Bulbs of the Future

If your like me you do everything you can to cut the power consumption in your house nothing to make you have a bad day as to get a high power bill. Some of marvelous scientist have made some in-roads into the filaments in our current bulbs. Popular Mechanics

Wireless Bidding

Have you ever had a item you were bidding on via e-bay and the closing time of the auction is in the middle of your workday. Happens to me all the time. There are times when I am unable to be on-line when the auction close nears. As there is the chance that I may want to up my bid

Editors Note

I seem to get material for this site in spurts sometimes to much. I have refined some of the tools I use and will be publishing a list of tools we use to extract this data. It is far from automated and everything on this page is Guaranteed to have been reviewed by an editor. We see what the site

New Music CD’s and your PC

I am sick of the recording industry. I purchased 4-5 cd's last week. Ya I know who does that these days anyways I have a RIO 800 and wanted to load up some songs to play them on the Rio. I put them in the laptop to build the MP3's and you guessed it would not run. I wrote a

Consumer Recalls score me some Cash

My kids are long out of a stroller and for some reason the wife thought we may need it again someday but so far no need. :) Anyway she was going to sell the unit at a local store that did consignment items. The owner of the store would not take the unit as it had been re-called. Why we

Satellite Cards and the Tyson Fight

A reader of Geek News sent the following article to me. Some commentary from me first those of us here in Hawaii do not have many options when it comes to dish type TV networks. We rely on a over priced cable system that has a horrific selection of channels. I have a older analog box and I may upgrade

Basic IRC Information

Many people don't realize that a major source of activity on the internet is Irc chat rooms. The Irc chat rooms are an EXCELLENT resource for real time help and in-depth discussion of thousands of topics. Irc is also a great resource for meeting new people, making friends and entertainment. Many of the chat rooms have bots that run trivia

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