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GEARS OF WAR 3 Video Preview ‘Ashes to Ashes’ – WOW!

April 13, 2010

Wow, well paced music, dark themes, and through it all, this Gears of War 3 preview brings it home: – Sorry, but we all have to be patience, Gears of War 3 has an April 2011 release date… for now. [PC World] Gears of War on Amazon

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FACEBOOK Apps: Oh Why Do You Need So Much Info? [CONSUMER]

April 9, 2010

Out of curiousity, before blocking any and all updates from one of those “fun” Facebook apps (Astrology) I wanted to check out what it said was in store for me today! Except when I went to see my forecast, the app, like all apps, wanted my info.  Eh? “Allowing Astrology access will let it pull [...]

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Looking For Reasonably Priced Notebooks [Consumer]

April 2, 2010

In my “night job” where I cruise the web scraping up content to chat about, or watch TV and have something to say, I’m not always at this monster desktop system I just grew from all the parts I had from a nuclear lab!  And my kick-butt Dell Inpsiron Laptop is awesome, but I’ve put [...]

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Mozilla Thunderbird Email Reply Position [Computer]

March 26, 2010

For those wishing to not use the default reply of “text below the quote” that Mozilla Thunderbird has on your computer, here’s how to change that up. Go to TOOLS, then ACCOUNT SETTINGS, then select COMPOSITION & ADDRESSING It is here that you will be able to select where to place your reply text in [...]

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How To Remove and Block Friends on Facebook

March 11, 2010

A neighbor asked me how she could block someone on Facebook who has become a turn-coat.  She said she never wanted to see this person’s updates ever again, and that she didn’t want them seeing her updates.  Ouch! My first response was to drive to her house and take a baseball bat to her laptop, [...]

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How to Count Words in A Unix Line

March 11, 2010

The other day I was trying to figure out how to count the number of words in a text line in unix. My issue is that I was editing a specific “field” with a PERL command, but I was worried that in the off chance the numerical variable occurred more than once, in places I [...]

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How To Make A Useful Mini-Man Page in Unix

March 11, 2010

Every time I run into an issue within UNIX, there are times I need to dig up a MAN page.  The “man” pages are useful but sometimes I’m in a bit of a rush and I just want to get to the meat of the issue that I know I’m not quite remembering. I’ve decided [...]

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Google: When Slaying the Dragon, Don’t Become Microsoft

March 7, 2010

The other day on one of my systems, I decided to update Google Earth for the latest and greatest options, features and what not that I wanted to look into. Now if you know me, you know that I have a very concisely controlled work environment on some of my systems.  With that said, I’d [...]

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Review: Search Engine Visibility Tool in GoDaddy

January 11, 2010

If you use Godaddy.com’s services for domain registration or hosting, you know that when you sign up for these services, you are presented with a myriad of other services that you can use in conjunction with what you are ordering. It can be mind boggling. As an experienced web programmer, I found things like Website [...]

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A Cautionary Mention About TWHIRL [Computer]

January 10, 2010

It’s nothing bad about Twhirl, but I thought I should point out that the other day I knew someone had retweeted a tweet of mine. So I clicked on my search symbol in my Twhirl application, dug them up and was looking for their tweet to confirm it, but I didn’t see anything about my [...]

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WordPress Alert: WordPress 2.9.1 Is Out!

January 4, 2010

Alert to all WordPress Users:  WordPress 2.9.1 is out and in the wild!  If you’ve made the tragic or fatal error of installing version 2.9 and have been cussing a lot lately, GO GET 2.9.1 and UPGRADE.  upgrade yesterday!  Or not! To be honest, no one is at fault for the greivous existence I’ve lived [...]

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Customizing Your Facebook Updates Per List

January 4, 2010

Facebook The other day it was driving me crazy to try and find an update from a specific friend of mine on Facebook, so I dug about and discovered that I can not only assign groups to each “friend” on Facebook, but I can also selectively look at each group on its own. Now I [...]

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Google Counts Down To The New Year [Computer]

December 31, 2009

I just discovered this gang, but if you head over to the Google search window, and click on the I’m Feeling Lucky button with the search window left blank, lookee there!  It’s a countdown time (in seconds) to midnight, per your own PC clock. Cool.  Those guys have all the fun there at Google! BTW, [...]

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Can You Improve Your Alexa Traffic Rank? [Computer]

December 30, 2009

I’ve been spending some quality time actually reading and researching on the internet.  It’s amazing what you end up doing when your server takes a hard dump. For me, I was surprised how mellow (A peer called it shell shock) I was when my site went down the weekend before this article.  I just said [...]

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Locate Free Wireless Hotspots

December 26, 2009

Have you ever been in a tizzy and needed a FREE wireless hotspot to access if the need arose?  Well, first off, if the need arose, you’d need to know where to look already, so this is more of a preplanned type thing.  Me, I’d slap some of these locations into my Google Bookmarks or [...]

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Facebook Is Changing Privacy Controls [Consumer]

December 18, 2009

This morning when I logged into Facebook I was notified of the privacy settings being changed. Right now, if you just accept the default privacy settings when you partake in their update, that means that EVERYONE on the internet will be able to see your updates / thoughts that you type. For some, that suddenly [...]

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Feedburner Now Tweets!!! [Consumer]

December 15, 2009

I just discovered that Google has jumped on the Twitter bandwagon and introduced to their Feedburner product the ability to tweet your blog or news article posts from your feeds now. Do you know what this means to someone like myself who runs a publication that has multiple genre?  It means a massive simplification to [...]

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Logitech Cordless Laser Mouse Review [Consumer]

December 13, 2009

Some months ago, I bought a Logitech wireless laser mouse for my laptop.  Not for full time use, but for those times of travel, sitting at the airports and other situations. I’ve used it rather liberally but it’s main goal is as stated above. The mouse has been flawless for me. I can’t speak to [...]

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