My Ideal Home Device

Over the past few months, while sitting on the couch watching TV, I jump back and forth between devices depending on what I am wanting to do during that time, or sometimes what is closest to me. If you asked me what was the perfect device for home use, I would have to get a…

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The Hidden Costs of Corporate Email

Microsoft’s Tom Rizzo this Wednesday wrote a blog post about the hidden costs of Google Apps. Now, does he do this out of the goodness of his heart? No. Does he do this just for fun since “Google is failing in the enterprise” and Microsoft feels absolutely warm and fuzzy about their place in the…

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My HP e-Print Printer (and all its wonders)

I have been big on these e-print printers ever since HP announced them last year. The thought of being able to send an email to an email address and it automatically print was a very neat concept. Plus the fact that it was wireless at my house made it even better. That way I wouldn’t…

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My 5 week 4 hour body progress

About 2 and a half months ago, i got Tim Ferris’ book  The 4-Hour Body, which, among other things, talks about his Slow Carb Diet.  It consists of putting a vegetable, meat, and legume at each meal and cutting out carbs and sugar in order to lose weight. That includes pasta, bread, potatoes, except red…

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Ideal Small Business Network

So I was thinking the other day about my Ideal Home Network post the and I thought it might be nice to do a post on what I believe is the ideal small business network. Most small businesses over-invest in IT hardware and software, as well as create too much complexity for less than 10…

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How to get more out of uTorrent

So, you use uTorrent for your torrenting needs of things like linux iso’s and various other items. But it is kind of a pain to remote in to your home PC and add the torrents if you aren’t sitting at the PC yourself. So here are a few tools that can make torrenting that much…

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Amazon Cloud Player

This morning, the Amazon Cloud Player launched, and I must say, I am impressed. As with most things Amazon, they went all out. It launches with 5GB of storage out of the box just for having an amazon account, an Android app, as well as a nice web player that works quite well. All of…

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Restore posts and comments from an old mysql backup of WordPress

I was talking to my wife about her blog, Poots and Pans, and she was asking about the old blog I used to do with some friends, so I thought I would get my old posts back from old backups to look at my old content. I looked through old emails to find the latest…

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Compare Android phones with DroidThing

I was looking at cell phones for my wife whose contract is up in a few months. We could always go with an iPhone on AT&T or Verizon, but there is a premium you pay for going with one of those carriers. So I thought I would look at some of the second tier carriers…

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Get Angry Birds Rio for Free on AT&T Droids

So, today Angry Birds Rio came out. Not only did it just come to the market, but it also came to Amazon’s new App store FOR FREE for the Android as well. Unfortunately for those of us on the AT&T side of things, this means that we can’t install it as the file comes from…

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