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Update on Steve Jobs
UPDATE, Jan 14, 2009: Not good news here. This is starting to be a concern. A quick story: Way back in the early 1980’s my wife and I worked at AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ. We had this great new personal computer called the Apple II. Worked great…but it had no applications at…
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WordPress Support Review
Rating: 5 WaterTowers Before Christmas, I noticed that I had lost column #2 of my main page Blog. On most individual pages I could see it, while on others, I could not. (This turned out to be a major hint, that I did not catch at the time). Very odd. Not expecting to hear back from…
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Google Chrome Review
Rating: 3.5 WaterTowers I have been seeing a smattering of Google Chrome browsers hitting my blogs and main web site so I decided to find out more. I downloaded Google Chrome a few days ago and have now made it my “default” browser. Really quickly here is what I have found out: Google Chrome has…
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Linksys Wireless Router Installation and Review
Rating: 4 WaterTowers This past week I purchased and installed a Linksys Wireless Router for a client. But before I installed the system at their location, I tried it at home to make sure it worked. It did. Product Linksys Wireless Router WRT54G2 comes in a sleek package looking more like a flying saucer than…
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Cuil: A New Search Engine
This week some ex-Google employees launched a new web search engine: Cuil. Pronounced: Cool. Being the curious type I went to the Cuil web site and fired up a few searches. So far it appears as though they still have a bit of work to do. Here are two screen shots of a search for…
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Apple IPod Transfer — A quick test
Just trying something….this was Kristen’s idea to see if we could download the contents of the Apple IPod to a “random” computer. Can we? Let’s give it a try…. The first thing we did was plug in Kristen’s old IPod (she now has a brand spanking new IPod Classic 80 gig so she can fit…
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Western Digital My Book 1 TeraByte Drive
For Fathers Day I received a couple of books (Sue Grafton’s “K” and “L”) a really cool sign for my yard (Free Weeds: Pick Your Own), and a badly needed expansion of our computer storage capacity: a Western Digital “My Book” 1 terabyte external hard drive with USB 2.0. To me, it is amazing that…
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YeOldeTechy Virus Hunter
OK…..I’m getting good at this, but, I should not have to do this at all. Elimination of virus infections on Windows Computers. With my handy-dandy 1 Gig dongle filled with virus killing software I visited a small business in Tracy today and spent 4 hours scanning, killing, and making everything work on this persons Windows…
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LinkedIn
OK, a few weeks ago, I signed up for LinkedIn. I entered a few bits of information and was invited by one person to join their network. I did nothing else. At the time, I decided that LinkedIn was a grown-up version of Facebook or MySpace. Even though I have a MySpace page I did…
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Adobe PhotoShop Express
What is Adobe PhotoShop Express? It is a free web-based version of PhotoShop with a limited set of features. Here is the web site. What are some of the Features of Express? There are quite a few very cool features for editing a photo (cropping, red eye touch up, sharpening, balancing, sketching, distorting, and more),…
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