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Apple’s release of the iPod w/video created a media buzz. Now you can download selected ABC-Disney network programing via the iTunes store for a moderate fee of $1.99 per episode. Apple is providing a way for the mainstream to capture and carry it anywhere and as simply as possible. If you don’t own the latest [...]

Legacy software applications such as the Microsoft Office are about to go obsolete. AJAX, RSS and other new programing techniques have made it possible to provide online document creation with web based applications. If you use Google’s Gmail than you’ve already experienced AJAX, which is used for spell check and contact addressing. Google Maps, another [...]

Another score as prolific Google rolls out yet another useful free beta download. The Google VPN client offers a layer of security to those of us surfing the net with easy to snoop WiFi. All of the up and down bits and bytes are encrypted and flow through cyberspace via Google Servers as described thusly. [...]

With an expanding podcast directory and not enough idle time, I borrowed B.O.U.R.Girl’s iRiver and a pair of cast off headphones. Unwilling to dull the senses I’ve always taken my exercise without props. Breaking with this tradition I tuned into TWIT episode 22 and went for a jog. This mp3 player, mounted to an armband [...]

Search video.google.com with keywords of your choice. I typed in S2000 and found this very nice amateur upload

technorati.com and del.icio.us are blogosphere buzz words worth getting aquainted with. They are websites that specialize in social bookmarking, categorizing and indexing weblogs. Google is not the only way to search you know… Example: I’m an interested in Apple Computer’s announcement last week about their shift from IBM/Motorola to the (windows xp) Intel processor. And, [...]

or someone like him… Dell’s price leader, as advertised, is a $399 special. In order to qualify for the free shipping (a $99 value) you must customize for an additional $102. Okay, so it’s not 399 rather 501 — but still bargain bang for the buck. Moraff or Hoyle, IE or Firefox, ripping or burning [...]

Fitting – that the old desktop OS should crash just as I was saving the last of the important files. (“what are you doing dave!?”) It has been unplugged. Actually the machine served us well for 7 years and a month (a very long time in computer years). As Dad Harrison liked to say, “She [...]

Stayin’ alive. It should have been a paper weight by this time but the 7 year old desktop with a 300 mhz PII and running Win95 keeps on going. No longer supported by anyone, parts come from hand-me-down machines. For instance, the graphics card went tango uniform over the weekend but I was able to [...]

Went lights out just before my face hit the keyboard. I was a tad concerned for the non-bootable hardrive challenge — as I was running out ideas. The issues: normal boot – no chance last known good logon – no go safe mode w/without prompt – no go Recovery Console wanted admin password – huh? [...]