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For years I have run a BBS (Bulletin Board Service) and have been a member of the Trialware Professional Association. That website at current count has allowed on my dime the download of 85,632,109 Shareware Programs. That is in a 15 year time spread from the days of dial-up systems to modern Internet based BBS systems. So what do I
I have been having this periodic problem with Norton Antivirus 2005 when I start the computer or loaded a word document windows would appear like a program was trying to load. I thought it was spyware or something. Turns out it is a bug in Norton Antivirus 2005 and here is what I found. I was getting the message in
This is a great article and I think Mark Cuban's comments are dead on accurate. The RIAA has not a clue of the actual impact File Sharing has had on the market place. For those not aware Mark Cuban bank rolled the legal challenge of MGM vs Grokster and those of you that worry about the impact of this Supreme
I am not a environmentalist by a long shot but my family tries to do our part by recycling and being good environmental stewards. A report out that is backed by over a thousand scientist says we need to slow down. As the world population continues to grow and we consume goods and services at a ever faster rate they
The linked article if true is not a good sign in the personal privacy department. I had written TSA last year when they were thinking about building a list that would allow pre-screened passengers to have expedited passage through airport security. The point I made to them is you have military people protecting this country and the majority of them
Their is a new service that is going to launch in April that will help those of you that want to Blog via your cell phone. Come on text message is bad enough when you have to send several lines now they want to make it easy for me to post via my cell phone. No Thank You! [SiliconValley.com]
Their are so many April Fools day gags out their that I am reading articles twice to make sure they are the real deal let's see if I make it through today without a bruise.
The wireless carriers are not happy with licensing feeds being put on them and are basically feel they are being robbed. Personally I am glad that industry is starting to feel some pain maybe someone will wake up someday and say that DRM is out of control and needs to reeled in. [Engadget]
Hi all this Todd and I am officially back in the saddle here at Geek News Central, I want to thank Tim for stepping in for me during a time that I would not have been able to maintain the site because I was as busy as one possibly could have been. Anyway lets get it on!
Niall Kennedy PubSub introduced LinkCounts, a new way of looking at daily statistics for their database as a whole or just your favorite domain. Bob Wyman describes LinkCounts as “how many InLinks and OutLinks we discovered each day.”
Google has a problem. PageRank can be gamed, as Matt Mullenweg has shown. That’s right Google shareholders, your product is flawed.
Digital Media and the Net.
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