Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
A commercial that is both inspiring and clever resonates in the minds of its watchers.
I recently saw this commercial on the Discovery Channel. It's quite clever - incorporating most of the on-screen talent across all of the Discovery Channel's shows. For example, Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs sings "I love ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Good news: Gmail now (soon) shows the number of logged in sessions that you have open. You can even log sessions out remotely. This is great news for people who use Gmail frequently but are afraid of the security risks.
If you are anything like me, you probably sign in to ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Have you ever wanted to add your own search engines to the search bar in Firefox? Well there are plugins that will do this for you, but I find that it's more fun to create them yourself. If you go to the folder C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins, you will find an ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
The problem: A software solution to play music on an outdoor, pool-side audio system.
The solution: I've been thinking about this for a couple of days. My parents want to put in a few outdoor speakers near our pool, and I was brainstorming about what would be the best solution.
One of ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Although I'm not sure if internet filtering plays a good or bad role in our schools, I did find this comment in an MSDN blog to be totally true - that is, I definitely experienced this when I was in high school.
The students are blowing through the filters as if ...
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