Archive for June, 2008
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invitationconsultants.com isn’t quite the ordinary e-store and I’m not talking about their product line. Yeah, they do the usually expected custom invitations for all kinds of occasions such as Anniversary, Bar & Bat Mitzvah, Birthday [...]
June 27th, 2008 | Posted in Misc, Programming, Tech, Website Review, Websites | Comments Off
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There’s a post up on TechCult listing what it’s calling “The 25 Best High-Tech Pranks“. While I have to admit that there’s several things on that list that sound like cool ways to out-prank the office clown or nail the guy that’s always annoying the snot out of you. [...]
June 27th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Fun Stuph, Misc, Opinion, Websites, games | 1 Comment
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Troubleshooting the monitor problems I had today got me into a kind of “digital nostalgia” frame of mind. Specifically I’m thinking about the differences between today’s computers and the machine’s I started out on.
Just touching on one aspect there is still a massive difference. Take memory as an example. [...]
June 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Electronics, Fun Stuph, Hardware, Misc, Opinion, Tech | Comments Off
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I had a disaster today. I was minding my own business getting organized for some things I was planning to write when all of a sudden with no warning at all my monitor went dark. The hard drive light kept blinking occasionally like it always does and the lights [...]
June 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, Business, Computers, Financial, Hardware, Misc, Opinion, Websites, blogs, news | Comments Off
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I recently wrote about the FileZilla FTP Server and Client programs but there was a version of it that I hadn’t mentioned. The FileZilla Client program, which is the version that most people will need, is also available in a portable apps version.
Even though I’d spent time browsing the programs [...]
June 19th, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Freeware, Hardware, Internet, Misc, Opinion, Programming, Websites, open source, software | Comments Off
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Ever since the “format wars” between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray ended a while back with Blu-Ray coming out on top, lots of people have been pretty much assuming that it’s now safe to go ahead and start buying Blu-Ray equipment and titles without having to worry about some other format coming along [...]
June 14th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Electronics, Hardware, Movies, Opinion, Tech, news | Comments Off
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I don’t know why this hasn’t occurred to me until now but because of the way our DSL service is arranged, we’re using a wireless router that’s supplied by the ISP for so much a month. It’s not a lot but it IS rented and if there ever comes a [...]
June 13th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Computers, Hardware, Internet, Misc | Comments Off
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Shutdown Machine 1.1 is a solution that isn’t needed very often but once in a while you want to shut the computer down after a task but the situation prevents you from sitting there to wait for it to complete.
Shutdown Machine is a timer program that shuts down the computer automatically. [...]
June 12th, 2008 | Posted in Computers, Freeware, Misc, software | Comments Off
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One Dollar Globe Insurance jumps right out at you and makes sure you know that $1 can get you 50K of life insurance for the first three months. The basic information is pretty much self contained on the one page, complete with selectors that let you choose your state to [...]
June 12th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Misc, Website Review, Websites | Comments Off
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XAMPP is a free and easy to install Apache web server that allows you to host a website from your own PC (provided you’ve taken care of something like a dyndns name or other way to have a domain name that points to whatever your current IP address is.)
It comes with [...]
June 10th, 2008 | Posted in Freeware, Internet, Misc, Websites, software | Comments Off