Archive for October, 2007
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Christmas is coming and out here in the sticks that often means people are going to want a different sort of thing from what most city folks are going to be wanting. Oh, there’s plenty [...]
October 24th, 2007 | Posted in Business, Website Review, Websites | Comments Off
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After a whole lot of procrastinating, I’m finally gotten the Wordpress 2.3 files and will get the upgrade done tonight or tomorrow. I’m also thinking about a change in the theme…. something with a wider post area. This means spending an hour or two on the theme browser looking [...]
October 24th, 2007 | Posted in Blogging, Internet, Websites, Wordpress | Comments Off
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I just read a story about Micro$oft having spent $240 Million to buy a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. and that brings to mind a question I’ve wondered about before.
I understand that it’s supposed to be some kind of social networking thing, but how the thing is supposed to work is [...]
October 24th, 2007 | Posted in Business, Internet, Networking, Websites, news | Comments Off
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This is a quick, “get your attention” kind of site that is offering affordable life insurance in the form of the first month of a policy worth up to $5,000 selling for one dollar. After that the rates are based on current age and are guaranteed for the life of [...]
October 24th, 2007 | Posted in Website Review, Websites | Comments Off
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Sony has come up with the latest development in flash memory. It’s a 64 gigabit (That’s 8192 megabyte or 8 gigabytes) NAND flash memory chip built with circuit elements only 30 nanometers across.
This is going to translate to larger storage capacity for MP3 players, flash drives and other devices and [...]
October 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Business, Electronics, Hardware, Tech, news, science | 2 Comments
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Anyone starting a business learns quickly that communication is absolutely essential. Not only between management and employees, but you also have to keep in touch with and be reachable by customers, suppliers, vendors of whatever flavor, technical support (both to take care of their own tech support needs but also [...]
October 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Business, Computers, Electronics, Hardware, Internet, Phones, Tech, software | Comments Off
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That’s actually what the headline that I just saw said. The headline says a lot all by itself: “Microsoft Blinks in European Legal Fight”
Then when you start to read the article you find out that Micro$oft has dropped a legal fight that they’ve been battling for nearly ten years. [...]
October 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Business, Computers, DRM, Internet, Programming, Tech, news, software | Comments Off
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When it comes to business websites, one thing that’s very important is how you deal with customer problems and questions. Over the years companies have used several different ways to deal with this…. Email, “support ticket” systems, or even just phone numbers that customers can call. Most of the [...]
October 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Business, Computers, Financial, Internet, Websites, software | Comments Off
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I’ve run into a problem. There’s this old Polaroid Digital 320 camera that comes with “PhotoMax” software… Now I understand that by todays standards this is a pretty lame camera and while even my nearly as old webcam can do twice it’s resolution, the webcam is on the end of [...]
October 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Electronics, Hardware, Tech | Comments Off
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I’ve actually wondered more than once in the last couple years if maybe it’s time to start thinking about a new television. Part of the reason is because I’d like to check out Hi-Def just to see for myself how good it is. (yeah, that’s right, I haven’t ever seen [...]
October 20th, 2007 | Posted in Electronics, Fun Stuph, Hardware, Movies, Tech | 1 Comment