Archive for July, 2006
Friday, July 28th, 2006
This guy noticed his neighbors were using his wireless connection without asking. Instead of locking it down, he simply had some fun with it. I personally think it's pretty funny...
Here's a related story on some comments about it from Slashdot
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Yahoo is selling the new Jessica Simpson song in MP3 format... however that's not the big new of this article. The big news is that the MP3 doesn't have any DRM built in. What means for the non-geeks is that you can copy it and play it anywhere, anytime, forever. ...
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
http://crazytelemarketer.ytmnd.com/
This is pretty funny, the lady is obvious really out there... It's about 8 minutes long, but worth it.
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Soon you'll be able to use MSN Messenger to talk to Yahoo users and vice versa. That will be nice, but people like me who already use Trillian, it doesn't benefit much! This decision was brought on after Google announced their IM service.
In coming months, more users will be able ...
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
It's up to 13% globally now! Definately not up near Internet Exploder, but it's getting there. Do your part and install Firefox today!
The national usage of firefox make some interesting reading, too, with FireFox making up 16% in the USA, 24% in Australia and a huge 39% in ...
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Don't let people steal your identity! I did a little write up on how to wipe all the data off your hard disks before selling/tossing them. Hope it helps somebody out there!
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
Well, Google mentions it would file an anti-trust suit if the Telco companies abuse powers that come along with the Net Neutrality bill. Enough to sway Telco companies from doing that� I doubt it.
"If we are not successful in our arguments ... then we will simply have to wait until ...
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Again for WGA. It's pretty fun if you ask me.
Before it was updated, WGA "phoned home" to Microsoft servers once a day, delivering information about a user's computer and operating system. This daily communication was not disclosed when WGA was installed and fits the definition of spyware offered by at ...
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Monday, July 3rd, 2006
So this could be another one of those "why didn't I think of that" or it could just be another good idea, but it didn't work out. eefoof.com has been born and their slogan is "Make it. Post it. Profit." Basically if you create multimedia content such as video, audio ...
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Saturday, July 1st, 2006
I found this article to be a pretty good read about net neutrality. It explains what's going on in pretty simple terms. I just hope that the big companies (Google, Yahoo, eBay etc.) against it prevail...
If phone companies could wave a magic wand they'd have the whole kit ...
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