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5 Reasons You Should Use Google Apps »

This week Google has launched a new advertising campaign using billboards in four cities, San Francisco, New York, Boston, and Chicago, each day the billboards will display a different message promoting Google Apps. I have been using many of Google’s products for the past few years, I also have helped many others setup and use [...]

Build your own home network, Part 2. »

In part two of this article I am going to be talking about each piece of networking equipment and how it interacts with the network and its importance.
The basic goal for any network is to create a reliable, fast and easy to maintain infrastructure. Our network had the following criteria:
All Television, Telephone, and Internet is [...]

Network Would Underpin New Electric Car Plan »

Prior to his current “mission”, Shai Agassi, age 38,worked for SAP, the world’s largest maker of enterprise software.  Agassi believes it just might be possible to get the entire world off oil. For good.  The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by [...]

Disposable Computer in the Works »

Need a computer that will match your new outfit? Help is on the way. Researchers are working on a low-tech computer that would cost as little as $12.
You can get these already in India. They look something like the original Nintendo console that many of us played video games on as [...]

Create Your Own Hi-Quality, Royalty-free Soundtracks »

It’s like having your own personal composer, i.e., Hans Zimmer-in-a-Can; and you don’t have to be a Beethoven to use it. Its a new software product, called “Abaltat Muse”, from the Ireland based company, Abaltat (www.abaltat.com). They call it the “worlds first video-driven soundtrack composer”.
First, you import your video segment into the program. Muse can [...]

Technology From Norway Listens to the People »

Did you know that gas prices in Norway are $10/gallon, and a beer costs $14/pint? But, they have an incredible health-care system (free), and going to a major university costs as little as $60/year. No wonder they are so educated over there, and leaders in cutting-edge technology. (BTW: Norwegian politics give a whole new [...]

Beta of XP update made public »

Microsoft on Tuesday said it will make publicly available a beta version of Windows XP Service Pack 3. But, like a car salesman pitching the new Corvette over the old jalopy, Microsoft argued that a switch to Vista is the better move.
“While Windows Vista provides the most advanced security and management capabilities of any Windows [...]

A Boot Camp Odyssey »

So for my 21st birthday my parents bought me a MacBook Pro, After a few days playing with OSX i found myself playing with the Boot Camp Assistant so i can play Team Fortress 2. I have installed windows at least 40-50 times on all different types of hardware and software configurations, so i thought [...]

Akismet stops comment spam »

After the KillaCycle video went live my blog was receiving tons more spam then before, it got to the point that i even turned off comments until i could work on getting a system implemented to block the spam. With a search on Google it turns out that there was already a Free service that [...]