Tech News December 29, 2009

December 29, 2009

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Twitter Fun Follow

Name Jimmy Fallon
Location New York, New York
Web Yes
Bio Snork.

Bio Sample Tweet:The Muppets sing the 12 Days of Christmas with The Roots!!! http://bit.ly/8M8NHQ

Website Pick

Copyscape (http://copyscape.com/)
Copyscape is dedicated to defending your rights online, helping you fight against online plagiarism and content theft. It finds sites that have copied your content without permission, as well as those that have quoted you.

Facts of the Day

The electric chair was first suggested by a dentist from Buffalo, New York. Alfred Southwick got the idea after he read in the paper of a man who was electrocuted to death when he fell into the generator at the city’s power plant. (qi.com)

Quote of the Day

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in- law a chair. Now they won’t let me plug it in.” Henny Youngman

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Tech & Science News

McAfee Says You Should Be Scared!
Putting out 2 reports: July 2009 top 15 spam subject lines by domain, among other highlights and which 2010 software you should avoid. (read more  . . .)

Ratted Out
Ex-Employee Says Seagate Stole Quiet Hard Drive Tech From MIT Researchers. (read more . . .)

GPS Problems
People seem to be stupid when they get a GPS. These are older people who are too lazy to even have a map in the car!   (read more . . .)

Can’t Set Your Own Password
Twitter bans 370 password. (read more . . .)

Scientist Predict
We are all doomed. (read more . . .)

iPhone Not Good For Networks
Since UK based, O2, got the iPhone, their network has slowly started to see issues. Customers have been experiencing dropped calls, the inability to make calls, and weak data connections. (read more . . .)

Extra Large iTouch
The new Apple tablet will be nothing more than a larger version of the iTouch.  Amazon just called the larger version of the Kindle – KindleDX.  Why can’t Apple just call it iTouch XL? (read more . . .)

Make Your Own Media Center
XBMC 9.11 makes your open source home theater look shinier. (read more . . .)

Music Trends
But when will ticket prices go down? (read more . . .)

Medical Marvel
It is taking the strong to cure the week.  (read more . . .)

First No Bees, Now This
When nature runs shouldn’t we? (read more . . .)

Picture Pick

There I Fixed It

Comment Clash

Comment ClashStar Trek Body Paint (article/picture . . .)

“Four of them have the wrong comm badges for the uniform chosen.” (comments . . .)

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One Response to Tech News December 29, 2009

  1. Helena Kellner on January 13, 2010 at 9:19 pm

    Exceptional blog. My colleagues and I were just talking about this the other night. Also your webpage looks great on my old sidekick. Now thats uncommon. Nice work.