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So what do you think about the concept of purchasing Twitter followers? If you are like most people, you might find the idea to be a bit shady…and that is putting it mildly. Despite these feelings, it appears that services such as uSocial.
Apparently uSocial is a service that allows Twitter users interested in purchasing followers [...]

You can love or hate Windows all day long — I don’t really care. But I will go on record as saying that its PR/marketing team for IE8 should be fired immediately.While some of its promotion has just been weak, confused and pointless, one of its videos is just gross.
The video below is not the [...]

I must have missed something along the line here. This press release talks about putting a satellite into space for the purpose of mobile phones and broadband coverage like this is a new concept? Last time I checked, satellite phones and satellite broadband were old news.
Upon reading into this further, it turns out it differs [...]

Just as I was finally able to stop having nightmares about becoming a slave in the future to my robotic overlords, I discover that Toyota is looking to give us mental control over robots.
Wow, really? Sure this sounds like a fantastic idea for having our automated friends doing household tasks and such. But what [...]

I am very much a child of the ’80s, with some memories of the late ’70s, even. I remember getting up to change the channel and adjusting the rabbit ears (this is what parents used to call remote control), to begging my mom for a full sized “boom box” so I could be cool like [...]

Today I saw something interesting happen. Community reps from two competing ISPs coming together in good humor. Really refreshing, actually. Hopefully more companies out there are able to do this. First, start off by reading this Twitter “tweet” from a Comcast social media rep. And I quote.
We changed the greeting on our phone system. [...]

I have been looking at VoiceField since the beginning of today, trying to get an idea of what it is all about. One article I found described it as a Twitter like thing, sort of. And on the surface, it is intriguing. Call a phone number and use it as your own personal soapbox from [...]

This latest post I did on why you need so much more than a mere A+ Cert really hit home for a lot of readers apparently. Seems like the email is still coming in strong. But one email I received that I thought was interesting was about someone who is about to go on an [...]

While I do not partake with Apple products (I prefer bananas), I do own an iPhone 3G and my wife leaves me with an extra user account on her own iMac. So should I wish to set up tethering for testing purposes, I’d say I am in pretty good shape to do so.
This tutorial here [...]

On so many levels, I think that Windows 7 is going to be a trip. From the OS being able to run on machines running as little as 96-128 MBs of RAM to trying to correct the dog performance I found happening with Vista on PCs right out of the store. In short, it’s likely [...]

I came across this today totally by accident. SunnyGram, not to be confused with HoneyGrams, is a way to make email more accessible for those who are just not technology people. Now for geeks like us, we might be inclined to think that everyone is able to step up and get into the daily routine [...]

Surely there is an easier way to do this?  I mean, I have been using SSH with X forwarding in Linux for what seems like years now and I just do not remember it being this difficult. Sure, to be fair this article is from, like, 2005. And last time I checked, no one is [...]

Never have I been so under-impressed by a single marketing idea. Opera, while a reasonably okay browser for what it is, does not strike me as making massive inroads in the already crowded browser world these days. And with Google Chrome and Safari on Windows, it has more competition than ever.
Enter Opera Unite, an idea [...]

Today I had a conversation with a friend of the family. I discovered that their son, about 12, is growing up much faster than any of us realized. It seems that he has grown interested in adult content found on the Internet. And to make matters worse, all attempts at monitoring and blocking this have [...]

These days, hearing about low-end notebooks/netbooks for under $200 is not really the news it once was. And let’s be honest, at this price the product you receive is not going to be anything to write home about with regard to performance really.
But one unique angle with this particular laptop is rather than using the [...]

I read this piece on how Microsoft was to release its own AV software with great interest. Clearly, way overdue. Yet at the same time there is a certain bell of logic banging around in my head. Why in the heck would I use a security product from a company who has the worst track [...]

Normally something like this would sound rather suspicious to me. But as it turns out, Virgin Mobile is really offeringpay as you go Wi-Fi! This means no more bothering with those $60 mobile broadband bills when you are not even using it. Just grab a $10 or $20 prepaid bit and surf — it’s apparently [...]

People have always questioned me about why I am so adamant about using the platform I have chosen for myself. Well, here is one example. It seems that China’s government is taking some delight in the prospect of making it law that all new PCs shipped new must have special proprietary access control software included.
Now [...]

Spam is something that I think we are all familiar with to some degree. But with email spam filters becoming more effective all of the time, this has left some unsavory types looking for alternative ways to spam people with unwanted junk.
While comment spam on blogs specifically continues to be a problem, at this stage [...]

Despite the alarmist title in play here, the fact of the matter is that more than ever, ATM machines all over the world are being exploited with malware. Boy, so much for those being secure as we have been told in the past!
Is this only happening to ATMs running Windows? That is debatable I guess. [...]