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What do you do with your computer parts? Here are a few suggestions

In my house, in my computer room, I have a closet that contains several PC cases, old power supplies, sound cards, video cards, old motherboards, ram… My closet has become a graveyard for old computer parts. Like I have said from the start of this blog, I love working on, building, repairing PCs. With [...]

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Should you buy a “niche website” package, or just create your own?

Ever heard of Adsense Real Estate? Well Adsense Real Estate is one of those "programs" that promise potential money to be made with a ready made system. A system that Im pretty sure works. Ive run across similar websites on the web and Ive seen plenty of others come across these websites and click away, [...]

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The Yahoo toolbar gets no respect. Does it deserve any?

Ive never been a big fan of installing 3rd party toolbars on my browsers. That is until I tried out the Google toolbar a year or 2 ago. Whenever I’m using IE, I usually install the Google toolbar. There are some features on that toolbar that I like to use, such as the bookmarks. The [...]

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When you have to send multiple messages, Pinger.com has an answer

You can call someone and leave a voicemail right?
You can also send someone a text message.
So answer this question for me. Why would you want to send someone a text message linking them to a voicemail message? Also…If you got a text message linking you to a voicemail, would that annoy you? It just doesn’t [...]

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Streaming media to your Xbox 360 just got easier (Fall Update).

Today is the big day for Xbox 360 owners. The coveted Fall update. I got home from work this morning (yea I worked last night) downloaded the update and started playing around with it.  One of the new features is the addition of Divx and Xvid video playback. I mentioned a while ago about how [...]

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Could Ask.com or Live.com de-throne Google?

Close to the beginning of this month, I wrote a blog post called "Is it time to start promoting other search engines along with Google". Since then, I decided to practice what I was preaching. I have been using other search engines to see if I could feel as comfortable with another search as I [...]

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Am I lucky? Or is there really a reason to hate Vista

Its been just about 7 months since I installed Vista on my notebook. Im use to using it, I like it, and I’m to the point where Windows XP is starting to seem like "the old OS".  I did something the other day that I usually do every 6 - 8 months. I wiped out [...]

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BlogRush, is it as great as I thought it would be?

If you look on the right sidebar of this blog, under the email subscribe form (sign up while your at it), you’d notice a empty space before the recent post list. What use to be there was there was the Blogrush widget. The code is still there so it should be showing up, but its [...]

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Microsoft is making moves, Announced Windows Live.

There has been a lot of announcements recently from a lot of web and software based companies, with Microsoft being the latest. Over the past year, Microsoft has been quietly releasing parts of their new online products based on the live brand but today they rolled out the whole "shebang". Introducing Windows live, Microsoft’s online [...]

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Bypass firewalls, filters, blocks, surf anonomously, and everything else you’re not suppose to be doing!

There are times when you need a little online privacy. You need to beable to hop online, without anyone knowing what you are doing?
Maybe you are at work and there are internet restrictions.
Maybe you are accessing websites on a public or borrowed PC and you don’t want to leave any tracks.
There are a few ways [...]

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