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Can't live without your address book and are you hooked on Gmail? Well leave it to the folks at Google to roll out some new features in Gmail. You can now import your address book from other online services like Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and of course your Outlook address book. My outlook address book has nearly 800 legitimate entries that
Some of us have had the misfortune of a hard-drive failure. It will happen to everyone eventually, and hopefully it will not be a painful death. I have been lucky as I have a aggressive backup plan in place others have been devastated by total loss of years of information. So it is not surprising that the hunt for technology
Wow imagine sitting around the board room and yawning and suggesting to throw 75 billion dollars back to the investors. That would wake you up but heck if they have so much money they ought to give me a call. I have a couple of ideas, just need someone smarter than I am to get it rolling. The bad thing
We all know that companies build profiles on our buying habits. But would you be concerned about your premium rates if you Medical and Life Insurance company watched your buying habits. I bet we would all be uncomfortable if we knew how much we are being tracked. The ACLU has a very good animation that points out things to come.
My 30 gig iPod is full to the rim, and since I have been collecting an average of 300 megs of legal non copyright infringing unknown artist music a week, I need some more room. My wife wants the 30 I have now, so I am hoping that Engadget is correct and think Apple is bluffing. I can hold her
For those of you that have been to the Philippines and traveled or stayed outside of hotels understand how antiquated the telecommunications infrastructure is. In the past people would be on list for many years waiting for a landline. This is one of the reasons cellular service in the Philippines is so popular. Well using some old techniques some individuals
I know what I do when I encounter a news site that requires registration I go elsewhere. Why do I want to entrust a news company with my personal demographic information when I can read the same story on a news site that does not require registration. Wired takes a look at sites offering ways to bypass site registration and
What can I say I think this article is cool I'm a geek after all. My Pocket PC already has a cocktail recipe database installed. This was done after my wife ordered me to make her some wild cocktail they drink in Japan. The database has made me pretty popular at parties and I am usually the duty bartender. Now
Shopping they call it, hmm I really don't think it's shopping but much more like trying to get a date with a girl that you realize in your heart is probably out of your league. A VC has put up some rules and thus far we are following the rules are you? [www.alwayson-network.com]
Seems Verizon is serious about having 1 million homes connected to the net via fiber with up to 30 MPS connections. I am standing on top of my chair saying, wire me up. They are set to rollout the service later this summer. Slashdot has some really good discussion on this. [Slashdot] [News.com]
I think I need to open a company and name it Mickeypoft and re-sell a customized Linux build under the same name. I wonder if Microsoft will pay us 20 million for the name. I am simply amazed that they would do this but it is a major win for Linspire formerly Lindows. I always like to see the underdog
If your looking for independent labels and write up's of popular artist including new acts etc. check this site out will be a great feed to subscribe to. [www.mp3blogs.org]
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