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Verizon iPhone – worth switching carriers?

Posted on January 25th, 2011.

On Lifehacker: Everything You Need to Know About the Verizon iPhone and Making the Switch.

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Video Chat On The Rise

Posted on January 25th, 2011.

Is browser-based video chat room provider Tinychat the next big thing? Sounds like it may be – they just raised $1.5 million in funding, including celebrity investors. [via TechCrunch]

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The Matrix 4 and The Matrix 5 And SEO

Posted on January 25th, 2011.

In a post titled “The Matrix 4 and The Matrix 5 are on the way says Keanu Reeves!” ZDNet’s Stephen Chapman has an interesting look at trend hijacking and black hat SEO techniques.  Great title to his post (by way of example):

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More Than A Netbook – Gateway LT3119u 11.6-Inch

Posted on December 28th, 2010.

I bought the Gateway LT3119u 11.6-Inch Netbook a few months ago to replace my aging Asus eee 904. It’s a nice machine that pushes the Netbook definition just a little. Gateway shunned the typical Atom processor for this unit, instead shoving in an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor L310 chip. While no speed demon, [...]

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The Best Free WordPress Themes of 2010

Posted on December 28th, 2010.

SmashingApps.com has a nice list of free WordPress themes with premium features.

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Google Voice Free For All

Posted on June 22nd, 2010.

Google Voice is out of beta and no longer requires an invite.  LifeHacker has more.

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Uh Oh, SpaghettiOs

Posted on June 18th, 2010.

Campbell Soup recalls 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs: WASHINGTON (AP) – Campbell Soup Co. is recalling 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs with meatballs after a cooker malfunctioned at one of the company’s plants in Texas and left the meat undercooked. The Agriculture Department announced the recall late Thursday. Campbell spokesman Anthony Sanzio said the company [...]

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iPod Touch Gets Free iOS4 Update

Posted on June 13th, 2010.

It’s old news, but I just noticed that the iOS 4 upgrade will be free for iPod Touch owners as well as iPhone users. In the past, Apple has charged $20 for iPod Touch OS upgrades, a shoddy practice they blamed on accounting requirements. Good for Apple for doing the right thing by their iPod [...]

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Stop Motion Mario

Posted on June 13th, 2010.

…with post-its via YouTube

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New $5 version of popular iPhone GPS App

Posted on June 9th, 2010.

The CoPilot Live USA iPhone app is just $4.99 and offers turn-by-turn spoken directions and free map updates for the rest of the year. [via CNET Cartech Blog]

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iPhone Upgrade Dates Moved Up

Posted on June 9th, 2010.

Dial *639# (star-639-pound) from your iPhone to see if you’re eligible for an upgrade.  AT&T announced that they’ve moved up the upgrade eligibility date for current iPhone customers by up to six months.  If you would have become eligible for a subsidized upgrade any time in 2010, your date has been moved up so you [...]

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FarmVille Ice Cream / FarmVille iPhone

Posted on June 9th, 2010.

FarmVille branded Ice Cream and Slurpees from 7-Eleven offer in-game rewards: Rita Bargerhuff, chief marketing officer at 7-Eleven, said it is one of the most unique campaigns in the chain’s history as it gives more than 30 product incentives to Zynga’s 239 million monthly active users. “Through our promotion with 7-Eleven, we are expanding our reach [...]

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Blu-Ray Ripping Guide

Posted on June 9th, 2010.

From LifeHacker: The Hassle-Free Guide to Ripping Your Blu-Ray Collection

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A Hiring Boom For Journalists At AOL

Posted on June 9th, 2010.

AOL will be hiring “hundreds” of journalists in the coming year while re-organizing their content division. [via Ad Age]

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AT&T Kills Unlimited Data Plans

Posted on June 2nd, 2010.

The $29.95 iPhone (and other AT&T smartphone) unlimited data plan is being replaced by two cheaper plans with data limits. The $15 plan will get you 200 megabytes of data, which AT&T claims is enough to “send/receive 1,000 emails (no attachments), plus send/receive 150 emails with attachments, plus view 400 Web pages, plus post 50 [...]

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Weekend Movie Watching

Posted on May 31st, 2010.

Thanks to Netflix Watch Instantly, my holiday weekend was a blur of 1980′s nostalgia (with a brief side-trip to 1992). I’d recommend all of these, with the possible exception of Chevy Chase’s ‘Modern Problems’ – go watch Vacation or Fletch instead. WarGames 1983 – After cracking the security of an Air Force supercomputer, young hacker [...]

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Browser Wars

Posted on March 7th, 2010.

The top five web browsers, tested and ranked by Tom’s Hardware. The major browsers are all pretty good now, but I’m currently a disciple of Chrome (with Opera a close second). Whichever you use, make sure your using the latest release (especially important with IE).

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Popular Science Archives – Free

Posted on March 4th, 2010.

PopSci has partnered with Google to offer the magazine’s entire 137-year archive for free online.

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Play Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online For Free

Posted on February 24th, 2010.

EA’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online game is in open beta, and it’s a lot of fun. The graphics are good (especially for a browser based game), it’s not a huge download, and the course selection is pretty amazing – Pebble Beach, St. Andrews, Sawgrass, etc. It’s designed to be a multi-player social online game, [...]

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Apple II Gets New Digital Music Synthesizer

Posted on February 12th, 2010.

As a former Apple II enthusiast (owned an Apple IIc and Apple IIgs in the late 80s), I think it’s awesome that there’s still a fan community out there developing for the platform. Engadget posted about a new Apple II digital music synthesizer.

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Macmillan’s Price Fixing Scheme

Posted on February 1st, 2010.

Macmillan is forcing Amazon to go along with their e-book price fixing scheme. Price fixing is usually illegal in this country, but there are often loopholes and exceptions to laws. I guess calling booksellers ‘agents’ who don’t get to set their own prices and receive a fixed commision is a pretty good one. That doesn’t [...]

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Meat Is Murder…Delicious Delicious Murder.

Posted on January 24th, 2010.

Is vegetarianism dead? Maybe not, but it doesn’t seem as trendy and popular as it did a few years ago.

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Just Don’t Wear A Red Shirt On Away Missions

Posted on January 24th, 2010.

From Digital Spy, hands-on with the upcoming ‘Star Trek Online’ MMO game.

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Car Thief Suspect Found Playing Grand Theft Auto

Posted on January 23rd, 2010.

Finally, proof from the AP that playing Grand Theft Auto will lead to a life of crime…or possibly vice-versa: Sheriff’s deputies in central Florida found a suspected car thief playing the “Grand Theft Auto” video game, and they later charged him with just that. Polk County deputies investigating the theft of a 1998 Dodge Durango [...]

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Like New Soviet Fighter – Only $5 Million

Posted on January 23rd, 2010.

Via Wired’s Autotopia blog, buy a fully functional SU-27 ‘Flanker’ Soviet fighter jet for the low low price of $5 million. Finally get revenge on Maverick and Goose.

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The Besler Steam Plane, circa 1933

Posted on January 14th, 2010.

Steam powered flight!  From the YouTube description: A Travel Air 2000 biplane made the world’s first piloted flight under steam power over Oakland, California, on 12 April 1933. The strangest feature of the flight was its relative silence; spectators on the ground could hear the pilot when he called to them from mid-air. The aircraft, [...]

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Sea Slug Is Part Animal, Part Plant

Posted on January 13th, 2010.

A very cool sea slug – it produces chlorophyll and can live indefinitely on only sunlight. A green sea slug appears to be part animal, part plant. It’s the first critter discovered to produce the plant pigment chlorophyll. The sneaky slugs seem to have stolen the genes that enable this skill from algae that they’ve [...]

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Calorie Confusion

Posted on January 12th, 2010.

NY Times: Claimed calorie counts often wrong: Anyone who counts calories by using the figures on menus in fast-food restaurants or on the packages of frozen meals may want to count again. When researchers tested the food served in 29 chain restaurants and 10 frozen meals sold in supermarkets, they found that their calorie content [...]

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Get Lost On Hulu

Posted on January 11th, 2010.

Seasons 1 – 5 of Lost are available on Hulu. I lost interest halfway through season 1, but maybe it’s time for a second look.

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Windows 64 vs. Windows 32

Posted on January 11th, 2010.

Via Lifehacker, a comprehensive overview of the differences between 64 bit and 32 bit Windows.

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