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I have just had my second encounter with a coworker accessing my computer without my permission, on my login. This means two of the twenty people in my department have some questionable ethics. I'm laying odds that it's more than that, but I've only known of two at this point, and I don't want to make too many assumptions. What
As a Vista user, I've had to learn to deal with the extra security in place to keep me from installing things that shouldn't be installed. (Yes, I know I can turn that off and have, but for the sake of argument, bear with me here. Thanks.) Anything that needs to install or update requires a second "yes" confirmation from
I have been a consumer of Amazon MP3's for at least two years. Probably longer. I choose to buy music through the Amazon MP3 downloader above almost anything else. One simple reason: no DRM. Amazon MP3's can be downloaded for great prices, and they can then be burned to a CD, moved to an MP3 player, transferred to another computer,
It's an interesting picture, right? Well this was made by a website. Geeknewscentral to be precise. This is a Heirarchy of Geeknewscentral. Wolfram Alpha is the new "Computational Knowledge Engine". It's not really a search engine like Google - If you search for "Geeknewscentral" you will get no information. However, if you ask "3+2", you will get the result of
Official show ends 10 minutes before end of Audio file. Some bonus material after the end of the show. Lot's to share tonight had a great weekend, hooked up with Trucker Tom we hit Fry's and Guitar Center aka Geek Heaven. Lots of tech news tonight and congrats of course to the Hubble Heroes for their great work on Hubble!
One of the worst feelings a person can have is seeking the repair of a product that they have a limited knowledge of how it works. How do they know what they are being told is true? How much does it really cost to fix? How will I know if they really replaced anything and it was just a loose
GoDaddy Promo Codes have fueled innovation here at Geek News Central over the past 4 years. Godaddy and their sponsorship of my Podcast have made it possible for my listeners to save money by using the coupon codes that I have placed in my podcast and made available on this website. With the 4 year sponsorship anniversary upon us I
I tend to forget things and then remember them at the oddest time, so I look for applications that help me remember, or allow me to schedule things from anywhere. I.TV for the Iphone is such an application. It is free and available through the Itune store. When you first sign in, it will ask for your zip
Twitter is great to network, but sometimes it annoys me. There are times that people don't get that they have 140 characters to Say something or loose out. The biggest problem is this #FollowFriday. I will see a post like: @joeschmoeb #Followfriday @name1 @name2 @name3 @name4 My question is: WHY? Who is this "Name 1"? Will I know this person
You may be wondering what cat litter has to do with tech. Let me explain.
Monster Show tonight longest of the year audio comments and e-mails are flooding in keep it up. Voice Mail hotline is +1-619-342-7365 or email geeknews@gmail.com. Apologies on the last shows Audio it is squared away tonight. Jet Lag got the best of me on the last podcast! Huge tech line up tonight, I am still on the road.. Show Sponsors
Hello, my name is Tom Newman (aka Fogview) and I’m the newest blogger on Geek News Central. You may ask what are my qualifications and what will I be bringing to the table. Well, I’m a geek and have been involved with tech for over 30 years. I’m a hardware/software engineer and have been involved with the micro computer revolution (that’s what we called it back in the “old days”) since it first began. I started out as a Test Engineer integrating a Data General Nova 2 minicomputer into the factory manufacturing process of the company where I worked (Diablo Systems). I spotted an article in Radio Electronics magazine talking about a home-brew computer, Mark-8, and decided to build my own Intel 8008 microcomputer. I ordered the circuit boards from author of the article and scrounged all the parts and built my bare-bones system. I finally had my very own computer at home! I hand-coded a simple program in assembly language and amazed myself by having a set of blinking LEDs marching to the beat of my very first 8008 program. I had written pretty large programs at work that could control Diablo HyType Printers, but there was something uplifting about my very own computer that could blink some LEDs.
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