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Cell phone companies get called out for rising sms cost. About damn time!

This little press release brought a bit of joy to my day. Senator Herb Kohl sent out an open letter to all the cell phone carriers asking them to explain to him why the cost of SMS messaging has skyrocketed over the past few years. To me, I always thought it made no sense that [...]

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Always shred your important documents

How important is shredding your documents before you throw them in the trash? Is that something you do? Do you ever think about it much? I am currently writing a blog post about a product on my other blog that made me think of a little story. It actually made me pay better attention to [...]

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Farewell Compusa

I still remember the day I found out that a CompUSA was being built in my city. Seemed like yesterday. Its all coming to an end soon though. With news that Compusa planning to hang their hats and close the rest of the 130 stores in the US. Yea I visited Best Buy and Circuit [...]

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Tech items, deals, plan out your BlackFriday shopping

Tomorrow is the big day!!! The start of the holiday shopping season. Black Friday is what many call it. Its the day where there are tons of sales and deals that can only be found on that day. Unbelievable prices. But for what? 
Why do stores lower prices on Black Friday? 
Its obvious, to get you in [...]

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What tech-related things are you thankful for this Thanksgiving? Here’s 5 of mine

Thanks giving day is a couple of days away, what will you be doing? How do you spend your Thanksgiving? Do you even celebrate it? Unfortunately, I will be at work, waiting till the clock ticks to quitting time. Which will be past dinner time so I’ll miss all of the dinner parties.
Thinking about thanksgiving, [...]

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Too much of anything can kill you!

Last week (or it may have been a little longer) I talked about how I wanted to switch my other blog over to wordpress. That blog was built using Dotnetnuke and while DNN  was ok, I have been using Wordpress on Jonespc.com and love the features. The problem, as I mentioned in that blog post [...]

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Useless software…Do you ever install it? Do you actually ever use it?

When I first got high speed internet, the cable installer came over and installed everything for me. He installed the NIC card, Plugged in the cable modem, installed the cable modem’s software, then called the company to get everything set up. After he left, I sat at the computer for the first time and fired [...]

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Are you a “Techie” or is your job just tech related? I think theres a difference

What is the difference between someone being a "Techie" and someone who just works in a tech related field? Is there a difference? Think about it, is every mechanic at the dealership a "gearhead"? Is everyone at the gym a "fitness enthusiast"? If you buy a nice stereo system for your home, does that make [...]

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6 must have parental control software features to keep your kids safe online!!

There are plenty of options out there to try to keep your kids from getting into bad things online. I just wish more parents would utilize them. Its funny, if you have a child that is about 14-15 years of age and younger, you should have some type of parental control on the family computer. [...]

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The lavish life of a professional blogger, how can I be down?

Wouldn’t it be great to be a professional blogger? When I say professional, I don’t mean starting a blog and dumping Adsense one it. I mean blogging as your primary job, what you do for a living is blog. You get up in the morning, do your research and write blog post. You do interviews, [...]

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