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What makes a Browser an African American browser?

I just heard of a browser that claim to be a web browser for the African American community. I wondered, how can a browser be a “black” browser. Of coarse being an African American myself, I decided to download the Blackbird browser to see what it is all about.
The Blackbird browser is built on top [...]

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Pownce has been aquired, shutting down. May return at a later time.

I don’t know what to think about this, I got home from work the other morning and was checking my Gmail and read this
We are sad to announce that Pownce is shutting down on December 15,
2008. As of today, Pownce will no longer be accepting new users or new
pro accounts.
To help with your transition, we [...]

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Free up space in vista by deleting old system restore points

There was a comment/question in one of my old blog post that I thought would be a good idea to talk about in a blog post. The question:
“I need to recover some space on  my Windows Vista computer. I did all that I can think of doing but there is XX gigs in system restore [...]

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Jinni.com…Pandora with movies?

This sounded really good when I first quickly (half) read this at techcrunch. A Pandora like web service with movies? So of coarse I quickly went over to Jinni.com to check it out. I signed up for a beta account and started poking around to see what Jinni.com was all about. What I found was [...]

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Im enjoying Vista Media Center

A few days ago I posted about how I took some old PC parts I had and pieced together a media center PC. The PC I built was meant to be used as a full time media center, connected to my TV and used to view media and online video. The OS I used was [...]

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How far along has MMORPG’s come? Part 4

Make sure you check out Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this series if your just joining in.
I held off on playing World of Warcraft because I just knew EQ2 was going to suck me in for about a year (only lasted about 2 months). I ended up picking the game up about [...]

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What kind of effect will todays economy have on blogging

I know what you are thinking, blogging for a lot of people is free. For others there’s a cost but that cost is pretty minimal. I agree, for the most part, the cost associated with running a blog is small. If you host your own blog, you pretty much have domain cost and hosting cost.
When [...]

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How far along has MMORPG’s come? Part 3

Ok, here we go again with my MMORPG comparison, If you want to read up and get familiar with what I had been talking about, make sure you check Part 1 and Part 2

Everquest 2 was the next game on EQ comparison list. I have to say, I was really looking forward to this [...]

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How far along has MMORPG’s come? Part 2

Last time I was talking about Everquest and how far MMORPG’s has come since then. If you haven’t read that yet, click here and read that first
Dark Age of Camelot was a game that I really liked but for outside reasons I never got a chance to really sink my teeth into it. I did [...]

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How far along has MMORPG’s come?

Ive been playing Warhammer Online  since it launched and Ive been thinking about MMORPGs in general. Where they were, how far they have came. Thinking about MMOs always bring me back to my first MMO experience, which is of coarse Everquest. Now Ive played a lot of MMOs since Everquest, looking for that one game [...]

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