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This is a Twitter client that provides a very innovative way of displaying timelines.  It allows you to make different filters or groups that allow you to have different time lines open in the same window. The only disadvantage is that it takes up a lot of desktop space, but with all the multi desktop apps out there that shouldn’t be [...]

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Yep the MSI wind and the DELL mini 9 have both recently been hacked to run osx. Steve won’t like this but maybe he will see the demand for us  gadget geeks and playing with  theses new little toys.
This is an awesome weekend project that i might not be too far away from trying myself. I would [...]

Ever showed up to a craigslist ad stating the pay is 30 dollars an hour to wear your construction working gear and hangout at a bank?

Well about a dozen people in Monroe Washington did just that. They showed up to hang out in front of the bank to meet the man for [...]

Google has yet another plan, A very positive plan in my eyes. A 4.4 trillion dollar proposal to the united states government. The plan is to be based mainly on clean and green energy sources by 2030.
This is a huge thing to survival to our economy. We use way much more oil than we [...]

Google has yet another plan, A very positive plan in my eyes. A 4.4 trillion dollar proposal to the united states government. The plan is to be based mainly on clean and green energy sources by 2030.
This is a huge thing to survival to our economy. We use way much more oil than we [...]

I am an avid fan and user of the Linux operating system. I enjoy the stability, the configurability. I like the performance and efficiency. These are but a few reasons that Linux is a wonderful desktop operating system alternative.
I recently read this article written by a friend of mine known as DedRyzing. In it he [...]

So you want those stylized lines that Illustrator is known for, eh? Don’t have the cash to shell out for CS3? Yeah, been there. Inkscape feels your pain.
I heard about this a while ago and since have picked up Illustrator CS3. This thing isn’t really bad at all. Usually freeware and digital art [...]

So you want those stylized lines that Illustrator is known for, eh? Don’t have the cash to shell out for CS3? Yeah, been there. Inkscape feels your pain.
I heard about this a while ago and since have picked up Illustrator CS3. This thing isn’t really bad at all. Usually freeware and digital art [...]

DS fans brace yourselves. The DSi was unveiled in Japan today. They expect this little gadget to hit shelves in Japan around November 1st, although us U.S. fans have to wait it out. They’re still unsure on a date for the U.S. Although they anticipate on a $130 price point.
So what’s the buzz [...]

Well, I disappeared for the longest time. Please do not fear: I’m back!
If anyone remembers the blog at all you will see right away that it has went through a name and mission change. It is now called The Leet Life. This is a project I have been doing with a friend on Blogger for [...]

Well, I disappeared for the longest time. Please do not fear: I’m back!
If anyone remembers the blog at all you will see right away that it has went through a name and mission change. It is now called The Leet Life. This is a project I have been doing with a friend on Blogger for [...]

I am an avid fan and user of the Linux operating system. I enjoy the stability, the configurability. I like the performance and efficiency. These are but a few reasons that Linux is a wonderful desktop operating system alternative.
I recently read this article written by a friend of mine known as DedRyzing. In it he [...]

I am an avid fan and user of the Linux operating system. I enjoy the stability, the configurability. I like the performance and efficiency. These are but a few reasons that Linux is a wonderful desktop operating system alternative.
I recently read this article written by a friend of mine known as DedRyzing. In it he [...]

I am an avid fan and user of the Linux operating system. I enjoy the stability, the configurability. I like the performance and efficiency. These are but a few reasons that Linux is a wonderful desktop operating system alternative.
I recently read this article written by a friend of mine known as DedRyzing. In it he [...]

Finished up playing Mega Man 9 yesterday and now it’s time for the review. Now I played Mega Man 9 on the Wii since it was released first on Monday of last week but it’s also available on PS3 since last week Thursday and on Xbox Live Arcade since Yesterday. Now a lot of people [...]

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This, the second post in the series of desktop clients for Twitter and FriendFeed, will feature Spaz. Download here.
Spaz is just a Twitter client - NOT a FriendFeed client like some of the others. To start off, Spaz is a very basic yet feature rich program; it will allow [...]

I’m pretty fed up with gas prices. I’m quite sure you are also. We watch the gas prices in hopes of relief. We look everywhere for a good idea on how to save money, or get better gas mileage. I know kind of the same thing. Okay, a lot of the same thing. Really the [...]

I’m pretty fed up with gas prices. I’m quite sure you are also. We watch the gas prices in hopes of relief. We look everywhere for a good idea on how to save money, or get better gas mileage. I know kind of the same thing. Okay, a lot of the same thing. Really the [...]

I’m pretty fed up with gas prices. I’m quite sure you are also. We watch the gas prices in hopes of relief. We look everywhere for a good idea on how to save money, or get better gas mileage. I know kind of the same thing. Okay, a lot of the same thing. Really the [...]

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Ok First thing,  how in the hell Am I supposed to be in agreement with some new rule when the rules I signed are on a piece of paper…. wait, I never signed any agreement. I’m cool. I guess I can just go get dsl now..
Ok folks lets just see what the moral majority [...]

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Ok First thing,  how in the hell Am I supposed to be in agreement with some new rule when the rules I signed are on a piece of paper…. wait, I never signed any agreement. I’m cool. I guess I can just go get dsl now..
Ok folks lets just see what the moral majority [...]

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Ok First thing,  how in the hell Am I supposed to be in agreement with some new rule when the rules I signed are on a piece of paper…. wait, I never signed any agreement. I’m cool. I guess I can just go get dsl now..
Ok folks lets just see what the moral majority [...]

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Ok First thing,  how in the hell Am I supposed to be in agreement with some new rule when the rules I signed are on a peice of paper…. wait, I never signed any agreement. I’m cool. I guess I can just go get dsl now..
Ok folks lets just see what the moral majority [...]

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Ok First thing,  oh in thehell Am I supposed to be in agreement with some new rule when the rules I signed are on a peice of paper…. wait, I never signed any agreement. I’m cool. I guess I can just go get dsl now..
Ok folks lets just see what the moral majority thinks.
When [...]

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Ok First thing,  oh in thehell Am I supposed to be in agreement with some new rule when the rules I signed are on a peice of paper…. wait, I never signed any agreement. I’m cool. I guess I can just go get dsl now..
Ok folks lets just see what the moral majority thinks.
When [...]

Until now, Apple’s iPhone has been the only touch-screen phone, with serious internet and computing capabilities, that has been worth buying.  Google’s newly announced phone, which runs on Android, seems to be the next big thing that will compete with the iPhone.
Google’s new G1 phone announced today is the first real competitor to the iPhone. [...]

I’m a rural-living person who often consults people on how to get broadband Internet connectivity to their middle-of-nowhere homes. There’s some good news for most of those people. HughesNet, the big guy in the satellite Internet service space operated by Hughes Network systems (no relation), has announced that later this month that it will begin [...]

This monthly magazine features exclusive reports of innovations developed by NASA and its industry partners/contractors that can be applied to develop new/improved products and solve engineering or manufacturing problems.
Authored by the engineers or scientists who did the work, the briefs span a wide array of fields, including electronics, physical sciences, materials, computer software, mechanics, machinery/automation, [...]

I’m pretty fed up with gas prices. I’m quite sure you are also. We watch the gas prices in hopes of relief. We look everywhere for a good idea on how to save money, or get better gas mileage. I know kind of the same thing. Okay, a lot of the same thing. Really the [...]

A super-fast, new global network’s controllers will turn it on sometime this year, but exactly when it will be available to you and me, in the same way the Internet we know is today… only time will tell.
As is practically always the case, the new technology driving the “Grid” network was borne out of need. [...]

I shopped on a site because I saw a few items on sale in the store’s ad that came with the Sunday paper. According to the ad, the sale applied to the online store. The store’s site marked ALL blankets at 40-50% off. In looking for the blankets, I noticed they were not marked down, [...]

“Forgot password?” should be instant. The site should simply request the user to enter the email address and immediately let the user know if the email address is in the system or not. Otherwise, you could lose out on ordering opportunities.
We tried to order dinner online and Paul (SO) forgot his password. He entered [...]

I was unsubscribing to emails and notifications from an email account I no longer use. One of the Web sites used “Cancel” to mean unsubscribe. This could confuse the visitor because it could be mistaken for cancel the whole process and leave things as it is. “Unsubscribe” or “Remove” do the job.
Another newsletter that I [...]

Recently, a client who supported Web standards worked to design her newsletters to use cascading style sheets (CSS) for layouts instead of tables. Designers cheered. Readers jeered. One problem with this approach: email clients.
Outlook may dominate, but how many of us have second or third email accounts with Web-based email clients like Yahoo!, Hotmail, Gmail, [...]

Can’t honestly say that news of iPhone malware is all too shocking. However like finding malware on any mobile device, knowing that it is fundamentally changing something that we just do not consider to be a target for the most part, is quite disheartening.
Officially, this threat is said to be more prank than problem. Yet [...]

These days, thin clients are not really news. Whether the clients are running Windows or Linux, the market is anyone’s ball game at this point. Well, that is until I found this: the Jack PC. As the wow factor goes, this device had me from this moment on…
They can be powered either through a plug [...]

It’s no surprise that blogs are catching on with B2Bs (business-to-business). BtoBOnline confirms it by referencing a Knowledgestorm and Universal McCann survey.
“Blogs are the perfect forum for business and IT professionals — readers want to hear about a company or a product from ’someone like them,’” says Matt Lohman, director of market research, KnowledgeStorm. “And [...]

More and more businesses are adding tech support reporting features, knowledgebases and expanding frequently asked questions — including businesses whose core business doesn’t include technology. Michael Port, author of Book Yourself Solid, has a tech support-like reporting tool — the kind of tool you expect to find on web server hosts and software development companies.
Michael [...]

Christmas is right around the corner, and if you’re still running around trying to figure out what gifts to get the geek in your life, fear not, for here are the top 10 gifts for the loved one who has everything:
“What do you buy for that loved one who has everything? If your spouse or [...]

SanDisk Corporation has unveiled a solid-state storage solution that works in conjunction with a PC’s hard drive to store and launch the computer’s operating system and software applications. The new SanDisk Vaulter Disk tag-teams with the hard drive to provide enhanced performance over a PC that has only a hard drive. Both Vaulter and the [...]

How to Ruin Web Design — The Design Curve is a simple and accurate view of what happens to a design when more people get involved in providing feedback and the time spent in changing the design. [Link from Web 2.0 Blog]
If you don’t read the rest of this entry — this picture tells all [...]

Guy Kawasaki discusses The Art of Customer Service. He offers ten tips for successful customer service. Unfortunately, all culture changes must have buy-in from the C-level executives and direct reports. And this doesn’t mean getting buy-in for earning a piece of paper that says you’re Six Sigma or CMM certified. It means living and breathing [...]

When I switched teams to a tech writer position, my company provided me with a second monitor. At first, I didn’t like it. The cursor was driving me nuts and I was constantly moving windows.
Now I can’t stand working on a computer or laptop with one monitor and wouldn’t mind a three panel monitor. Currently, [...]

Do a search for any telecommunications company and you’ll see plenty of complaints about all of them. That’s because their systems are complex.
I’ve worked at two telecommunications companies for ten years and it gave me perspective into why customer service is often not a smooth process. Both of these companies have been around since the [...]

Finally. It took one month, 46 email messages, and two visits to the store to resolve a problem with my Sidekick II. The solution wasn’t complicated, but I can’t honestly say it would’ve worked had I not got a new SIM card.
SMS (short message service) had not been working for months, but I didn’t notice [...]

I used to be a dyed-in-the-wool Palm PDA user. I was working in a corporate IT department back in the 1990s when US Robotics introduced the first PalmPilot, the Palm 1000. I climbed the Palm upgrade ladder as new models came out (The Palm Vx was my favorite, a genuine home run in design and [...]

Do you enjoy touching your computers? That may sound weird and creepy, but I’m not talking about touching your computers in general. Instead, I’m referring to the way in which you interact with them. For many of us, the keyboard and mouse are still our primary methods of interacting with computers, and they work just [...]

Bet you never saw this coming! Now Internet Explorer users can enjoy some of those cool Greasemonkey scripts that Firefox users have been hoarding all to themselves. OK, so in reality Firefox users have not really been hoarding anything at all. In fact, Firefox is cross platform and anyone can use the application should they [...]

In a complex, heterogeneous IT environment running multiple server operating systems, a comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) plan that includes offsite replication could mean the difference between maintaining operations in the face of an emergency and losing your business entirely.
Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast (free TechRepublic registration required), featuring David Aschmann, Product Manager for CA XOsoft, [...]

OLED is the short version for organic light-emitting diode. It is a special type of LED, sometimes called organic LED. It is called ‘organic’ because the thin layer film consists of certain organic compounds. The film is sandwiched between two layers, one metal cathode layer and one anode layer. The thin-film is named emissive layer. [...]

Intel Corporation has formally introduced three more quad-core processors, including the first to carry the Intel Core2 Quad processor brand name that begins the expansion of quad-core PC sales to mainstream buyers. Intel now offers a total of nine quad-core processor versions in the desktop and enterprise market segments.
The Intel Core 2 Quad processor packs [...]

Crucial Technology has announced the immediate availability of 512MB and 1GB microSD memory cards to round out its extensive line of flash memory solutions. Crucial’s new microSD cards are designed for use in today’s mobile devices, such as cellular phones with memory-hungry multimedia features like built-in music players and digital cameras. Crucial’s microSD cards are [...]

MIT engineers have demonstrated a technology that could introduce an important new phase of the microelectronics revolution that has already brought us iPods, laptops and much more.
The work will be presented at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting Dec. 11-13 by Dae-Hyun Kim. Kim is a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Jesus del Alamo, [...]

Scientists have created novel ’spintronic’ devices that could point the way for the next generation of more powerful and permanent data storage chips in computers.
Physicist at the Universities of Bath, Bristol and Leeds have discovered a way to precisely control the pattern of magnetic fields in thin magnetic films, which can be used to store [...]

Pulse~LINK, Inc., developer of CWave UWB solutions for whole-home High Definition multimedia connectivity, will conduct an unprecedented public demonstration of high data rate HD video transmissions using both 1394 (FireWire/iLink) and Ethernet simultaneously over the same coaxial cable at the Connected@Home conference this week in San Diego. The demonstration features Pulse~LINK’s CWave chipset implemented in [...]

Aimed at the growing ultra-compact MP3 mobile phone market, the new microSD products meet the demand for high density storage and small footprint design.
Corsair, a worldwide leader in high performance enthusiast computer products, today launched a new line of microSD removable flash memory cards to further expand the company’s award-winning line of flash products. Available [...]

Intel Corporation has unveiled a new baseband card that helps speed the creation of WiMAX base stations. The Intel NetStructure WiMAX Baseband Card is Intel’s first integrated hardware and software platform for transport, control and baseband processing in a standards-based Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC) form factor. The new Intel card enables equipment manufacturers to accelerate [...]

All right, it seems that Nokia is working on a Bluetooth alternative. I’m most impressed with some of the advantages this new technology is potentially going to offer each of us. One of the biggest advantages is definitely less power consumption - an existing issue with Bluetooth in mobile phones, for example.
Nokia believes that we [...]

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 27, 2006 - Today Intel Corporation disclosed details of its next-generation Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology platform that will enable laptops to operate faster and with enhanced wireless communication capabilities. At the heart of the platform, the Intel Core2 Duo processor will deliver greater performance and power saving capabilities.
The [...]

Intel Corporation today announced a new integrated branding campaign named “Multiply,” which is focused on Intel Core2 Duo, the world’s best processor. The campaign represents Intel’s most significant marketing campaign in size and scope since the launch of Intel Centrino mobile technology.
“The way people use technology is profoundly transformed by Intel Core 2 Duo,” said [...]

Intel Corporation has announced that Intel Serial Flash Memory (S33) products are shipping to meet the memory requirements of a range of applications, including digital TVs, DVDs, PCs, modems and printers. Intel’s serial flash is based on an industry-standard package, pin-out and command set to simplify board design and save board space.
“Applications requiring fast flash [...]

Hawking Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of innovative wired and Hi-Gain wireless networking solutions for home, workgroup, and corporate users, announced today that it has begun shipping the world’s first compact Wi-Fi USB networking adapter with a removable antenna for easy antenna upgrading.

“The problem with wireless networks these days is not the speed, it’s the [...]

Hawking Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of Hi-Gain Wi-Fi Antennas for Wi-Fi access points and network adapters with removable antennas, today announced the launch of the Hi-Gain 8dBi Wi-Fi Directional Dish Antenna (HAI8DD). Compliant with both 802.11b and 802.11g wireless standards, the HAI8DD increases the antenna strength of standard wireless devices (i.e. access points, workgroup [...]

Intel Corporation today unveiled 10 Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Core 2 Extreme processors for consumer and business desktop and laptop PCs and workstations, reshaping how computers perform, look and consume power - and most importantly - transform how people use them.
“The Core 2 Duo processors are simply the best processors in the world,” [...]

What is PCI-Express and AGP?
There are two ways to connect a graphics card to a motherboard, either via an AGP or PCI Express slot located on your motherboard. A motherboard only supports one of these slots, so if you’re looking for a new video card make sure you’re aware of whether your motherboard supports AGP, [...]

When you rely on your printer to produce quality printouts on demand, there is no time for a delay due to misinformation from your printing machine. Unfortunately, a common occurrence in the new Epson model ink jet printers is that the chip will think the printer is out of ink when in fact it is [...]

Toshiba Corporation and SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that they have agreed to build a new 300-millimeter (mm) wafer fabrication facility at Toshiba’s Yokkaichi Operations to meet fast growing demand for NAND flash memory. The announcement underlines NAND flash memory’s position as the storage technology of choice for mobile products and digital consumer devices, [...]

Everytime I run into Ajay Juneja, he’s talking about his voice controlled car computer. This is partly because the brains behind the voice recognition happens to be technology created by Ajay’s start-up company, Speak With Me. There’s not much you can throw at the computer that it can’t do. It’s got enough logic to prompt [...]

Most of the non-technical people I know use the browser that came with their computer and never give it a second thought. I, like many longtime Windows users, started out with Mosaic, moved to Netscape, and then moved to on to Internet Explorer. Unlike many of my coworkers, IE has stayed my primary browser. I [...]

Without a doubt, maintaining control over a company’s network is evolving from a full time job into an everyday miracle. And perhaps each admin out there has their own ’special brand of justice’ for those who violate network policy, but how effective is it really? Think you might need a little extra help?

Well if you [...]

Corsair Memory, the worldwide leader in design and manufacture of high performance memory, has launched the world’s fastest DDR2 and DDR1 memory solutions for the Intel and the AMD platforms. Rated at scorching fast 1066MHz, the new TWIN2X1024-8500 from Corsair delivers the highest memory frequency currently available to Intel users. Simultaneously, the new TWINX2048-4400PRO takes [...]

Everyone is going widget crazy! Microsoft (who calls them gadgets, not widgets) has them on the Start.com and Windows Live sites, on the Windows Sidebar, and with the help of laptop vendors, on special secondary laptop screens branded Windows SideShow. Yahoo! provides its Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly Konfabulator) at no charge for both [...]

It seems like just the other day that Windows 95 and OS/2 Warp 4 were released. It was actually almost 11 years ago. I cannot believe advising some of my clients to run a ten-year old operating system on their antiquated PCs. Imagine that.
The first time round I experienced Win 95, I was awestruck. [...]

I can remember in the early eighties, just after