I think my email usage has plateaued for the last year. Twitter, Plurk and other Social Network sites have picked up the slack. I don’t use email as a “Instant Messanger” for the most part. I still use email of course and yes: I will check my email on my phone - my personal cell [...]
Written on September 12, 2008 | Posted in
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In the last couple months we’ve seen PC manufacturer Psystar offer Mac OS X Leopard with their PC. Apple has sued due to the fact they are not installing on Apple-labeled-hardware. So will DiscCloud have any better chance by taking the OS off the machine?
DiscCloud is an appliance that houses the Leopard virtualization software. The [...]
Written on September 6, 2008 | Posted in
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Psystar has been bucking the system by selling a PC that will run Windows, Linux and (gasp!) Apple software. Apple of course sued Psystar for doing this. Now Psystar has come back with a counter suit claiming Monopoly. Do they have a leg to stand on?
Apple had it’s share of clones throughout the years. From [...]
Written on August 29, 2008 | Posted in
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This last couple weeks has been really trying on the tech. It all started with the main PC - I knew it needed to be reloaded because of some ntdll.dll errors I’ve been getting. I decided to take it down last week and reload before everything went south and I couldn’t do anything.
I think it [...]
Written on August 14, 2008 | Posted in
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On my podcast, I ran through a TechTweak to continue a download if the download is taking a longer time. Little did I know that issue was more Firefox than receiving packets.
When I was beta testing Firefox, I noticed that downloading files took a lot longer and caused the browser to actually run slower. I [...]
Written on August 7, 2008 | Posted in
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The New York Times reports of a Blogger who gets an email after complaining about a service that is not there. Other people have complained about their bills and Comcast comes back with a “Can I Help”? Even others find themselves with internet connection issues for trying to use the service. This begs the question: [...]
Written on July 25, 2008 | Posted in
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OK. So we don’t see 200+ lb women gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. We don’t see a Yugo on the cover of Hot Rod. How many would take Matthew Mcconaughey over Jack Black (I wouldn’t take either, but you know what I’m talking about)?
We live in a world where sometimes form overtakes [...]
Written on June 24, 2008 | Posted in
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In the movie “Man of the Year”, we saw a flawed Computer Voting System error a Comedian into the prominent role as President. In real life there can be no nationwide contract for voting machines. Each state regulates how it’s going to let voters partake in elections and whether it will comply with Federal standards.
However, [...]
Written on June 20, 2008 | Posted in
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