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Having recently received a price of over $300 to replace a lost car key, and past experience losing cell phones, cameras, other items that fall out of my pockets and cost a bunch to replace, I signed up today for a Lost and Found Label system. Looks like
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Hang in there guys and girls. Better times are coming. You may want to consider moving to Prague if you want them faster: IT employment should increase by 5.8 million jobs by the end of 2013, compared to the current base of 35.6 million. That growth would
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I spent way too much time this weekend trying to remove the remnants of MyWebTattoo and FastBrowserSearch.com. MyWebTattoo is an application advertised on facebook, which a family member installed, agreeing at the same time to switch the default search
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I’m waiting for my local power utility (PSE) to start sending the data feed to HOHM so I can track my energy usage in real-time – but Microsoft Hohm gave me plenty of homework to do while I wait. Completing the Home Profile gets you thinking about the
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Windows Live for Mobile is now Bing for mobile. Features are about the same, just a new name, and of course a new decision engine behind the button. What is new is Bing 411. Dial 1-800-Bing-411 (1-800-246-4411) for audio directions, traffic conditions,
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Imagine your cell phone recharging itself wirelessly while in stand-by mode, just off of ambient radio waves – TV, radio, cell phone, etc. Nokia has a 5 milliwatt rechargeable phone prototye. Wow. Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires : Christopher
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Very cool app from Microsoft. Aim your mobile device camera at the barcode, and you are quickly redirected to the web, blog, mail address – without having to type in the address. On the provider side – creates instant tracking of where your mobile visitors
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Way to go Chrome :-)
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Two cool tools I installed this week: Qik – was in the news for being preinstalled on the new Nokia – but it’s a free download for your smartphone. Qik is live mobile video streaming to the web. http://www.qik.com/ Like UStream I think. Screencast.com
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No commentary, just sharing a useful link. Operating system market share As of end of April: BTW, Windows 7 is ranked 9th at .25%, just behind iPhone at .55%.
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My Twitter badge on the left rail doesn’t seem to be working. No loss, I don’t have much to say there yet. Find where you are on the 4 stages of twitter scale. The four stages of the average Twitter user | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com [Excerpt] As I’ve
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You can sign up now for the Office 2010 Technical Preview release in July here . If you’re attending TechEd this week – you’ve already received info on the release (if not, look for someone at the Office booth for details). What’s new in Office 2010.
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The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is now available on the download site – and worth the install if you’re still running the beta release or earlier. Wondering if your XP SP2 or Vista box can run Win7? Run the Upgrade Advisor wizard for a compatibility
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Maybe everything they taught us was wrong... From the Wrigley Institute of Science: No chewing gum in class? A study by Baylor College of Medicine showed that students who chewed gum showed an increase in standardized math test scores and their final
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I drove, not walked, to the mailbox this morning – to read the press coverage of the Elevate America launch that was held yesterday at the Seattle Work Source office. Governor Gregoire and Microsoft VP and General Counsel Brad Smith did a great job of
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