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The Great Postage Scandal of 2008

The Great Postage Scandal of 2008

The POst office is just one of those government institutions people just love to hate. Running at a 1.1 BILLION deficit the Post Office is looking to make up for the shortfall by…. Ripping off customers.
Thats right, all Postal Clerks are now instructed via Washington to “upsell” services people don’t need.
Hi, I work the [...]

What is your Passion?

What is your Passion?

Interesting question, right? We are all fueled by something. What gets you out of bed in the morning? Is your passion technology? Playing ball with the kids? Stamp collecting? Reading the dictionary?
It’s too often we just let time pass without refecting on why we do the things we do?
I’m interested to [...]

Do You Remember?

Do You Remember?

How many of you remember this? I think every person I know who has ever watched TV has seen this old Sesame Street “How it’s Made” style clip.

Thwart Those Lunch Pirates!

Thwart Those Lunch Pirates!

Every office worker who brings their lunch has had it stolen a time or two by some jackass in the office because your food looked better then the stuff they brought.
Here is a sure fire way to make sure your food is NEVER stolen again!
Stealing your co-worker’s lunch is a downright contemptible act, that is, [...]

Banish Those Unwanted Apple Applications From Your iPhone

Banish Those Unwanted Apple Applications From Your iPhone

Thanks to the SDK Apple has let iPhone users be able to install and uninstall any application their heart desires, well so long as it’s not one of Apple’s bundled applications. Try removing Notepad, Contacts or Stocks. No such luck… Well until now.
This is more of a trick rather then an uninstall. [...]

DRM Be Damned - Spore Relaxing Restrictions

DRM Be Damned - Spore Relaxing Restrictions

Spore, which has been much maligned for its DRM stranglehold on users, has decided it will relax some of its crazy restrictions.
In light of thousands upon thousands of irate DRM-hating gamers, Electronic Arts has announced that it’ll be issuing a patch to the game that’ll allow people to de-authorize certain computers.
Currently, the game is only [...]

Pssssst… Prepaid TMobile Users, You Get Full Free Internet With the iPhone

Pssssst… Prepaid TMobile Users, You Get Full Free Internet With the iPhone

I keep a prepaid T-Mobile SIM laying around for those “just because” moments. For anyone who has tried using T-Zones on a prepaid cellphone (especially on an iPhone) you are always sadly disappointed with the results. No connectivity.
However, due to a recent change on T-Mobile’s network you no longer are stranded without internet [...]

The Spam / Captcha Conundrum

The Spam / Captcha Conundrum

Spam has reached an uncontrollable level. It floods my inbox, it fills my mailbox and litters my blog. Sure, I use spam fighting plugins to filter out most of the garbage but the onslaught makes comment moderations next to impossible.
What do do? A Captcha. I recently implemented “ReCaptcha” to help keep [...]

Native Podcaster *STUPIDLY* Denied From Apple’s App Store

Native Podcaster *STUPIDLY* Denied From Apple’s App Store

Al just dropped word that the much anticipated native podcasting application has been denied from Apple’s App Store.

Apple Rep says: Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.
That’s right folks, it duplicates the functionality of the desktop version of iTunes.
Therefore, it was denied from [...]

500GB Drives Hit Laptops

500GB Drives Hit Laptops

The gap between desktop storage and laptop storage is closing. Western Digital announced a two platters.
Priced at $220 the WD Scorpio Blue comes with 8MB cache spinning at 5,400rpm. Not a bad price for a boat load of storage.
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