I think I have asked this question before, but let’s give it a go again, shall we? How many of my readers use a cell phone? I know, it seems like more and more people are calling them personal devices, but they are still cell phones to me. Personally, I use one every day....
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Everyone knows about YouTube. That’s the nifty little website that allows it’s registered users to post short videos that may or may not be of interest to other users. It was created in February 2005 and in November 2006, was purchased by online giant Google, with a whopping price tag of $1.65 billion. Folks,...
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A couple years ago, I stumbled upon the Linux on iPhone blog. I was really quite intrigued by it… An open OS on Apple hardware? Perfect! Open software plus beautiful hardware. Awesome. So I followed it… Kept the site in my RSS reader… And nothing. No updates for the longest time. I was getting discouraged,...
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As I’m sure you are all well aware, Facebook has been getting a lot of criticism about their privacy settings. I’m sure we all agree that the company, and it’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, truly deserves all of it. They share/sell our information, all the while giving us new “privacy settings” in order to appease...
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I would be severely amiss if I failed to mention the milestone that is scheduled to take place later this afternoon. Conditions at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida look favorable for the Space Shuttle Atlantis to lift off on her final voyage to space. After she flies, there will be two remaining shuttle missions,...
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If you have blogged for very long and are acquainted with social media and the use thereof, you should be well aware of a website called StumbleUpon. If you are not, let me acquaint you with a tool that can help you spread your content, no matter what, far and wide across the Internet....
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Have you ever wondered just what our sun looks like close up? On February 11, 2010, NASA launched the first mission of a program called Living with a star, or LWS. It completely escaped my attention, but the mission is basically an orbiting telescope platform designed specifically to look at and monitor the sun....
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Okay, so I am going off the beaten path again with this post, but bear with me for a few minutes. I found this story so interesting, I couldn’t help myself. I honestly didn’t realize there was technology in the making that could possibly allow a vehicle to drive by itself, but here we...
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Open-source culture. What does this bring to mind? For some, it represents freedom: freedom to speak, freedom to share, and freedom to change. Yet, to others, the words sound a death-knell. To them, anything open-source is dangerous. Sherman Alexie, a novelist, was quoted in an interview: “With the open-source culture on the Internet, the...
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It’s been a while since I posted anything in the Technology category and I thought this subject was as good as any. I have recently upgraded my system to Mepis 8.5, a Debian-based Linux system that uses KDE 4.3.4. Since I talk to my brother a lot via Yahoo Instant Messenger, one of the...
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