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April 2012

105 posts

GoDaddy May Promotion Codes

I have a great discount promotion with GoDaddy for May. In fact we have two great deals but one will end on May 31st and the other will not expire. I have a huge list of Godaddy deals that never expire on my GoDaddy Promo Codes Page. Every time you share my codes, or utilize them, you are directly supporting

Tech Writer Prepping For One Year of Internet Abstinence

Tech writer Paul Miller (most recently writing for The Verge) - is leaving the Internet for a year  starting tonight at midnight. One of his final indulgences is a Reddit IAmA session (the comments, as usual when you expose yourself to Redditors, are a mixture of hilarious and tauntingly offensive). Aside from the novelty of a tech writer giving up the Internet

World Wide Web Turns 19 Today

Okay, that headline is a bit misleading because World Wide Web, or W3, is actually older than 19, but on April 30, 1993 it officially entered open-source.  That was probably the biggest open source project in history and it was instituted by the "father of the internet", Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in Switzerland. Berners-Lee, in 1989, wrote the

RHP MirrorCase Goes For A KickStarter

At this year's CES, Andy McCaskey and Courtney Wallin interviewed John Palmeri of RHP on their new MirrorCase, a special case for the iPhone 4/4S that lets photos be taken while the phone is horizontal, i.e. flat, rather than the more usual vertical orientation. Depending on your point of view, it's either a clever idea that stops the camera intruding on

FlyRights App Lets You File A Complaint With TSA

An app called FlyRights will be released on April 30, 2012. The app provides people with an easy way to submit a complaint of unfair treatment by airport screeners with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You can also send your complaint to the Sikh Coalition if you want to. There have been situations

Jumbo iPieces at The Gadget Show

iPieces from Jumbo are a new range of games that join traditional tabletop games with iPad game apps. In a nutshell, the iPad becomes the game board and game pieces are placed on the iPad. The game app displays the board but being an app, can bring animation and other effects to the game. Sheer genius. There are four games

Dropbox Vs. Google Drive

Google recently released Google Drive. It is the newest cloud storage device. Dropbox is a cloud storage device that has been in use for quite some time. I thought it would be interesting to compare the two. Price Dropbox: * Up to 18 GB is free. You can earn 2 GB + 500 MB per referral. * Pro 50 Plan

A System to Prevent Traffic Jams

We’ve have all been in one either as a driver or as a passenger a traffic jam. Sometimes they are caused by an accidents, but many times the cause seems to be a complete mystery. These are known as shock wave traffic jams and are often caused by drivers braking or slowing down causing a ripple effect behind them. Most

The Space Picture of the Day Isn’t from Outer Space

This morning the space shuttle Enterprise made what was likely its final flight, but this time it was on the back of a 747.  After several delays the shuttle finally took off from Washington DC, where it had been housed at the Smithsonian museum, and headed to New York City and it's new home at Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.

GNC-2012-04-26 #760 Action Packed

This is a action packed, rapid fire show. Hope you enjoy it, this is packed end to end with tech content. Need a new employee in Tampa area? Drop me an email as my daughter is on the job hunt. Download the Audio Show File Links to all Articles covered in this Podcast [Click Here]

FloLight Stretches the MicroBeam 1024 Even Further

FloLight was at NAB 2012. They are the company that makes the MicroBeam 1024. What they have done is taken all the good things about the MicroBeam 1024, and made it into a slimmer rectangular shape. The newly shaped light is called MicroBeam 1024LP. The LP stands for “low profile”. It is designed to give you everything that the MicroBeam

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