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Great Tech Deals…Say Bye to Ebay

Great Tech Deals…Say Bye to Ebay

I found these great computer deals online… including: 2% off Alienware Laptop 3% off ThinkPad ThinkCenter 2% off Fujitsu Computer Systems 3% off Geeks.com 3% off HP.com 5% off Hudson’s Bay Forget trying to bid on ebay go to Shop to Earth!

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Seeking Advice: Palm Tungsten T

Seeking Advice: Palm Tungsten T

O.K. When I bought Tungsten T and keyboard it cost me the same price as an Acer Laptop in today’s market. It is still working and functioning quite well and no plans to discard. It does have bluetooth and no way to have access to wifi, scandisk’s wifi card doesn’t work on the Tungsten T. If it did have wifi access I would do so much more with it besides a PDA. Can I remove the OS? Install a new OS? I would love to be able to Puppy Linux or have a mini OS. Any suggestions?

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Technology Competition

Technology Competition

The annual competition is not because of their blindness, but because of their ability to succeed in spite of it, the top blind students from across the United States and Canada put their knowledge of the braille code to the test in the only national academic competition for blind students in the country — The National Braille Challenge. “The employment numbers for blind people are significantly lower than those of sighted people in the same age group,” said Nancy Niebrugge, director of the Braille Challenge. “But 90 percent of blind people who are gainfully employed are braille readers, and...

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I’m A Box Jockey

I’m A Box Jockey

The Problem(s) We have 4 computers and 3 cell phones in our house. All of which have music and picture collections on them. We need to backup the data on all of our computers. My computer has customer and project data. My wife’s computer contains her work files. The kid’s computer(s) have game data and homework on them. And as stated above, all machines/cell phones have music and pictures. If we loose any of the data on just one of these devices our life could be hell. Especially mine since I’m the IT person of the house. The Solution...

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Getting Schooled

Getting Schooled

I’ve compiled a list of sessions that I attended at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference 2008. All of the sessions other than the keynote were covered by non-discloser agreements so I can’t go into great details. I will provide hints where appropriate… Monday Keynote – Steve Jobs looks too skinny. I think the rumors of his sickness are true… 500 State of the Server Address 101 Mac OS X Administration Tuesday 312 iPhone Development Fundamentals – Had To “C” What All The Hype Was About 504 Deploying Network and Portable Home Directories – Looking for Tips/Hints/Tricks 908 Managing OS...

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