Archive for August, 2008
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Well, here I go again with another long gap in posting that I couldn't avoid and no, I didn't just load up the golf bags and head off to pebble beach for the better part of a week. I also didn't just decide to sleep in for several days ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
The polite term for it is "Indentured Servitude". The Ugly truth of it is called "Slavery"
According to an article on PC Authority, Apple employees are putting together a class action lawsuit that's claiming Apple denied technical staffers the overtime pay and meal compensation that's required by state law.
Apparently they've ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I've always believed that the new "E-passports" weren't going to be all they were cracked up to be and now there's a good example of why the people who're so flapping excited about them need to reach for a fresh dose of progesterone and sit back and take a fresh ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
I read about this on slashdot recently and then in the last day or so I've gotten a dozen or so emails claiming to be from CNN Alerts. They all had subject lines that read "CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert" or "CNN.com Daily Top 10"
I knew right away that ...
Posted in Computers, Internet, News, Privacy, Software | Comments Off
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Notepad++ bills itself as a "Source code editor and Notepad replacement" but it turns out to be so much more than that.
The reason for this is that it's got so many features that it really blows the original notepad away totally. Some of the features include Syntax Highlighting and ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Openoffice.org is an application suite that does everything that Microsoft Office does except drain your wallet.
Whether it's word processing, spreadsheets, database needs, graphics, and PowerPoint presentations that you need, OpenOffice.org does everything that Microsoft Office does and it´s FREE!!!!
It can open your old Microsoft Office and word files and you ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
VLC media player is a "does it all" multimedia player that can handle an assortment of audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, and so on). It can also deal with DVDs, VCDs, and several streaming protocols.
VLC can also be used as a server to stream ...
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