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What is an NZB file?

When I first got online, I was using AOL. one of the geeky things Ive always heard about was the Usenet. At that time, I used the Usenet as a forum. reading about topics that I was interested in. Ive even used the newsgroups as late as about 2001, when I use to frequent an [...]

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Are you scared to delete your Email?

I have to admit, I am scared to delete my email. Im not talking about just deleting individual email, or a spam item here and there. I’m talking about deleting my whole inbox and starting from scratch. I have several email addresses that I use for different things. Of coarse, I have the email address [...]

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All…Most of your web video at one place socially with FFWD

Do you make a habit of watching online video on your PC? I mean regularly, not those rare occasions where your trying to catch something at work or while traveling. I ran across a new site the other day that I thought was pretty cool that is great for those people that do.
www.ffwd.com is a [...]

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A “back of my mind” concern I have about Chrome.

I mentioned in my previous post about chrome that I didnt think I would use it as my permanant browser. There is a reason why I said that. Something happened to me a long while ago that has stuck with me. I blogged about it. You can read that blog to get the full details [...]

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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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What is GDGT.com

A little while ago, there was a job posting over at Engadget for a tech blogger. The reason they needed a tech blogger was because Ryan Block, one of the founding bloggers over at Engadget was leaving. What was he leaving to do?
Recently there was a podcast started and that podcast has been lighting of [...]

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About that FREE advertising…

Remember the other week I talked about a little ad promotion. Well the winner has been picked and the Ad is up now.
The second part of the promotion was…if you remember
Buy 1 month advertising at Jonespc for $12 bucks and you get a second month free. Also you get 2 free months at Jonzee.com.
This deal [...]

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An evening with Google Chrome

Well I’m a day late with this post but I happen to spend a good amount of time with Google Chrome after the download was made available Tuesday. What do I think? Well lets first go through my experience (briefly) and I’ll get to that.
Download and installation was pretty standard for me. Chrome installed then [...]

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Google enters the browser wars with Google Chrome.

Today is the day…supposedly. Google announced that today there will be a download for a new browser.

Google Chrome
Yep that’s right, Google is joining the browser wars with their own browser. Google Chrome was first leaked by an online comic talking about the browser (which you can read here). What will be different about Google’s new [...]

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Malicious code found on your blog?

In addition to yesterday’s problem (click here to read if you havent done so already), I had another problem that was a tad bit nastier. I dont know if the same hacker did this or some other hacker. This is what was happening.
In IE, I type my domain into into the address bar and the [...]

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