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A week ago today, I had a visitor unlike any visitor I have ever had here at the Studio. I share with you that experience plus re-tell the story of the Blue-Man that haunted us, while we lived on Historic Ford Island. Small brain fart in remembering ship names but you will get the point and be entertained with the
When I opened up Google search page this morning I noticed that on the right hand side of the screen are the words Gmail results. I had signed up for this when it was offered back in the beginning of August. First a little background, I work from home and I am the only one that uses the computer. So
There is a good chance that you have read about the problem of Matt Honan who was hacked by individuals who used social engineering to do it. One of the things that Matt admitted was he used the same email address for everything and in terms of security that might not have been a good idea. Are there times when
Over the past 10 years, I have been very successful in incorporating Skype into my various podcasts. Earlier this year I upgraded my windows based 2 channel SD Skype solution to one that is HD Mac-based. I have depicted the solution I am currently using. Be aware that my end goal was to always have the guest appear full screen
Perhaps Google's most famous button, and there aren't many on their stark homepage, is the "I'm feeling lucky" option. The option has been with the search engine since pretty much the beginning of their existence, way back at Stanford in the 1990's. Thanks to modern browser updates like "instant", the "I'm feeling lucky" option has become nothing more than a nostalgic option.
Was inspired by a blog post I read yesterday that I take some time to chat about. I also have saved a new Ghost story from Friday for the next show yes think you will like it. Lots of tech news and info as usual. Thanks for all the feedback coming into the show. Supporting the sponsors is appreciated. Subscribe
Last week 20 native speakers of the Yucatec language met. They gather to try to add the language to the Google language base, MozillaWiki, WikiMedia and some crowdsourced project. Yucatec is the largest language belonging to the Mayan tongue. It was a joint effort of the ongoing Google’s Endangered Languages ProjectMozilla and WikiMedia. Over 3,000 languages around the world are
It's one thing to be arrested for trying to rob a convenience store or "knock over" a bank, but Humza Bajwa is facing up to 15 years in prison for trying to steal pretend currency with pretend cash and using a pretend gun. The bizarre crime took place recently at Fordham University in New York. Allegedly students David Emani and Jonathan Dokler decided to
The Summer isn't over yet. In some places, the new school year has yet to begin. My limited experience in retail was enough to show me that now is the time that retailers start rolling out their plans for the upcoming holiday shopping season. Microsoft is no exception to this rule of retail. Microsoft is planning on putting up several
Akitio has come out with the Neutrino U3+ a stylish 2.5 Sata HDD enclosure that supports bus powered USB 3.0 or Firewire 800. The all Aluminum casing with heat sink guarantees your drive will not overheat. The best part is multiple drives can be daisy chained together using the firewire ports. Priced at $79.00 this is one of the lowest
Over the years I have owned a number of devices that allowed me to connect a bare drive to a computer. I have box full of these types of devices as they where always one off solutions. This past week I have had been reviewing the WiebeTech UltraDock v5. This dock is incredible! I can connect to bare 3.5 &
Make sure you look at the full resolution image at NASA. Make sure you click on the image and look at the full image on NASA.
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