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Folks this is huge and I am going to be rambling about this for a few days. But let me give you one or two things to think about. You load this Desktop Search engine and it indexes your computer and allows you to find items on your own PC this is cool and makes Microsoft's search tool obsolete in
Today was the first time I was able to get on PayPal but the services was still very sluggish and many can not get into their accounts. PayPal has been struggling to fix their problems. [Yahoo News]
From the non technical side something to make you say hmmm. If rumors are true that Senator Dayton has closed his Washington offices until after the election makes me sit back and wonder what he knows that we don't. He is a democrat so I really can't say this is a ploy by the republicans but makes me say hmm.
This news report says it all: " The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider whether recording-industry investigators may use a favorite tactic to find out who may be copying their songs over the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America had invoked a 1998 copyright law to force Internet providers like Verizon Communications to turn over the names
One word of warning to those of you that are going to do Podcast make sure you have plenty of bandwidth. We will be reducing the bit rate on all future shows. We went over 10 gigs of traffic for our first Podcast. I obviously under estimated the total amount traffic level. I reserved a 100 gigs for this month
Oh my goodness isn't this a interesting development. Sincere congratulations to Joi, I know he will represent well. [Joi Ito]
Boy's and their toys. I have been looking for an excuse to pawn my 30 gig iPod off to my wife and now I may have the way to do it. But she reads this site so I am sure she will want it instead. Looking at the price though makes me think it will go on the luxury list
It's hard to believe that 4 months ago I was coping with a spine/vertebrae injury in which I was one of only 10% of the population to not suffer any paralysis. My recovery has been good considering the hardware in my back and having had to deal with a body brace for 3 months. Don't get me wrong I am
My mom lives in a rural area and they get their TV service from Dish. Recently their old TV blew up and they went shopping for a new set. The salesman at Sears did a good job and I hope they did not get sold a bill of goods with the new HDTV they purchased. A lot of people have
Their is nothing like touching and feeling a product, consumers like to look at gadgets before they buy them. With Office Depot to start selling VOIP phones and plans I think this will help consumers and business's move forward. It will not be long before their are stores in every town large and small that specialize in re-selling VOIP services.
I have been playing around with Bloglines now for a few weeks and found that it works ok so long as you do not overload it with feeds. I use Newzcrawler when I have access to my laptop all of the time. Being I am now working on a separate PC during the day with my laptop back at the
I decided to check and see how much bandwidth we burned in the first 2 days of the initial Podcast. I had to do the math 3 times because I figured I made a mistake someplace but the figures do not lie. Here are the totals, my logs show a little over 6 gigs of MP3 downloads with the podcast
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