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Two videos for the Microsoft Surface Table

June 25th, 2007 by James

Microsoft has come out with a pretty cool table that can replace the normal computer that is in your living room. They have come out with a whole new way to interact with the table and not use a keyboard or mouse.

Here is a link to the Microsoft site for the table.

A quick video

and of course a parody video, just for fun. Warning – slightly adult language in a few parts of the video.

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Approve sites your kid visits with Glubble

June 19th, 2007 by James

If you need another reason to be using Firefox, and you are a parent of children under 12, here it is. There is a new extension for Firefox that lets you create and/or approve websites that your children right in the browser. It also allows you to give the children their own username and password to allow different sites for different children.

My daughter is 4 years, and has already fallen in love with getting on the Internet with my wife and I. As she gets older, this will be an excellent tool to help us if we walk away for a few minutes.

Featured Firefox Extension: Approve sites your kid visits with Glubble – Lifehacker

Glubble – A new online experience for the entire family

Glubble Image

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Being careful at Free Wireless Hotspots

June 11th, 2007 by James

This is a pretty alarming video of someone sitting in a hotel lobby where there is Free Wireless Internet for their customers, and a “Hacker” or “Hustler” as they are called in England is capturing all of their information. After capturing the information the Hustler uses it to make purchase large ticket items on the Internet.

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Margaritaville Ringtone

June 7th, 2007 by James

I have been making some mobile phone ring tones for some friends of mine, and thought I would post this one just in case there are any Parrot Heads out there!

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Download Image Margaritaville Ringtone Downloads: 88 times

If you are looking for an easy way to get these ringtones on your phone. You can upload the ringtone to this website, and then go the website on your phone to download the ringtone. I did it with my phone and it took about 1 minute to do everything.

Imserba Wap Uploader

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Discovery Stores Close Everywhere, Geeks Weep

June 7th, 2007 by James

There was only one of these stores, but it was really neat to walk around them and check out all of the geeky stuff.

Discovery Store Closing – Wired News

I have also learned that CompUSA has quietly closed the store near us as well. I would now have to drive 70 or miles to visit a store.

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First Personal Genome Map Created

June 4th, 2007 by James

I think that this really neat. I had also seen on “I Want That!“, I believe, that you could get wall art of your DNA. You sent it in to a company that would take it from a swab that you rubbed on the inside of your cheek. Thay would make a full size poster and mail it back to you. It was very colorful, but expensive.

The Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA has become the first person to receive his own personal genome map.

Discovery News – First Personal Genome Map Created

DNA Wall Art

DNA Wall Art

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Lost or locked your keys in your car?

June 1st, 2007 by James

If you have ever lost or locked your keys in your Car, Truck, or SUV you can have someone with the other key chain remote call you on your cell phone. You would then put the phone near the vehicle, they would push the unlock button on the remote, and the locked vehicle should unlock!

Autoblog Link

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Great Firewall of China | Test websites

May 31st, 2007 by James

This sites checks to see if your website is being blocked to people in China in real time. They have a server in China that will check your site from inside the country.

We are being blocked!!!! The nerve of those people, hehe!!!!

Great Firewall of China | Test websites

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Here is the reason that Blake Lewis should win American Idol

May 8th, 2007 by James

This performance just completely rocked! He came up with the arrangement for this song and we loved it. We have it on our DVR and have listened to over and over to see all of the things that he came up with as far as the lyrics, music change ups and the lighting.

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Killer deal Alert!!!!

March 16th, 2007 by James

Been wanting to get into the HDTV game? Considered getting another HDTV? Fry’s / Outpost.com has the SYNTAX OLEVIA 337H 37″ HD Monitor LCD on sale for $599 and $18.50 s/h. This is a monitor and will need a cable box, which is what most people have these days anyway. So, don’t wait and get on this great deal today or they will all be gone.

Just before Christmas, we ordered a different 37″ HDTV for $697 Free s/h and they sold out quickly. They now have them back in stock and it sells for $1099.99. We have really loved this TV and are looking forward to the new to come in!

Olevia 337H

Link

Update: They are all sold out! I hope you got yours in time.

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TIVO working overtime!

March 4th, 2007 by Thalia

Finally some of our favorite shows are back on tv-American Idol, Amazing Race, and for James 24 and Lost. Needless to say our TIVOS and DVRs are working hard all four of them! So far both Idol and Amazing Race look like they will be good runs this year although we don’t have a favorite singer or team yet!

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MySpace to offer spyware for parents

January 18th, 2007 by James
MySpace Logo Now, this is one of the best things to come from MySpace that I have seen in a long time. There was a time that MySpace was in the news every week or so. Keeping younger children safe on sites like this is very important.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Parents who install the monitoring software on their home computers would be able to find out what name, age and location their children are using to represent themselves on MySpace. The software doesn’t enable parents to read their child’s e-mail or see the child’s profile page and children would be alerted that their information was being shared. The program would continue to send updates about changes in the child’s name, age and location, even when the child logs on from other computers.

MySpace to offer spyware for parents

I would like to also add that if you have someone that visits this site regularly, I would recommend keeping your anti-spyware software up to date. There have many articles to the fact that MySpace is a contributor to the spread of spyware and malware.

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Free Ringtones

January 18th, 2007 by James

For those who are interested. Here is the ringtone for the new Apple iPhone.

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Download Image iPhone Ringtone Downloads: 94 times

While on the subject of ringtones. I also found the ring tone for the desk phones used on one of my favorite shows on television right now, “24“.

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Download Image CTU MP3 Ringtone Downloads: 139 times
Download Image CTU .wav Ringtone Downloads: 86 times

If you are looking for an easy way to get these ringtones on your phone. You can upload the ringtone to this website and then go the website on your phone to download the ringtone. I did it with my phone and it took about 1 minute to do everything.

Imserba Wap Uploader

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Colbert’s “Wag Of The Finger” to the Apple iPhone

January 17th, 2007 by James

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iPhone

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Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T – Cingular thing!

January 17th, 2007 by James

We have Cingular, err I mean at&t. That is why I found this interesting.

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