Articles (page 43 of 50)
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Call Me
GrandCentral is a online/offline phone service enabled by VoIP that promises to be your one, universal, end-all, no-need-for-another phone number provider. Primarily, they are a…
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T-Mobile goes national with HotSpot @Home WiFi calling
"Following a limited launch last year in its hometown of Seattle, T-Mobile's finally pulling all the stops and taking its "HotSpot @Home" hybrid GSM / WiFi calling service…
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MSN Direct and Fossil Abacus Smart Watch 2006 Problems
Amazon, if you're reading this, click here to find out how to fix this issue . If you (the reader) would like to help, please email ecr@amazon.com , tell them you read about how…
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Verison to offer GSM service?
With so many problems cropping up with T-Mobile's T-Zones data plan recently, stories like this one are not all that uncommon. Ironically, it was extraordinarily poor support…
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New Dopp
Not to scoop MikeDopp , but since he's got other things on his mind... NewDopp was born! He's a biggun at 8 pounds 7 ounces and 18 inches long. Mother is doing well, baby is…
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WebHost4Life.com & WordPress issues
It’s come to this… Mike and I need your help! For some reason WebHost4Life.com is not playing nicely with WordPress… well, not on his account anyway. I’ve been a paying customer…
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T-Mobile T-Zones Downtime in Western USA
This morning around 7am MT I awoke to being unable to reliably surf the web and the inability to sync with my Exchange Server (for email, contacts, tasks, and calendar data). At…
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FedEx Customer Service Problems
My order, placed Monday, June 04, 2007 was scheduled to be delivered today (Friday, June 08, 2007) via FedEx.com and was reported "Delivered. Left at front door. Signature…
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Bitter Battle over Truth in Sweeteners
It is a mystery why stevia, a South American plant more than 300 times sweeter than sugar, remains illegal for use as a sweetener in the United States. Could it be that the…
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New Battery Technology could push Prius to 125 Miles per Gallon
The Pennsylvania based Lithium Technology Corporation recently demonstrated a new type of "plug-in" Toyota Prius hybrid car. The new model is based on advanced lithium iron…
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Immigrants Sue Employer for Back Wages
"Illegal immigrants who worked long shifts scrubbing theme restaurants for an indicted janitorial firm have signed their names to a lawsuit seeking unpaid wages. 'Someone who…
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Woman on an Oxygen Machine Dies After Power Company Cuts off Electricity
"Folole Muliaga, a 44-year-old mother of four, died within two hours after the electricity was switched off in her home due to unpaid bills. Family members of Mrs. Muliaga, a…
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Senators who OK'd war didn't read key report
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she and most other senators did not read a key intelligence report before the 2002 vote to authorize war…
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Beware of 405-603-7076
I got a call from a number reported by caller-ID as 405-603-7076. Not knowing anyone from the 407 area code I let the call go to voicemail (no message was left). I Google'd the…
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Sunshine in a Jar
Collecting sunshine sounds impossible but it's actually something the charming little Sun Jar does every day. That's because this traditional-looking frosted glass container…
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"Stayin' Alive" at Lifetime Products
Let's paint a hypothetical situation, shall we? Let's say a bunch of corporate executives and sales folk got together and let themselves be video'd while dancing to Stayin' Alive…
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Zune to Get Wireless Downloads, Version 2 Hardware, Flash Player (PIC)
Apparently you'll finally be able to put your WiFi to good use by using open WiFi hotspots and Microsoft points for downloading tracks. (Sorry, no word about subscriptions…
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JoeLevi.com: down for a bit, back up now
To all my faithful readers (both of you), I sincerely apologize for the inability to connect to JoeLevi.com over the several hours. Apparently there was a routing problem that…
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Twitter Updates for 2007-05-15
Blogging about the May 15th, 1642 "Oats Boycott"... http://tinyurl.com/2yoq25 #
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The World's First Cyber-War between Two Countries? Massive DDoS attacks target Estonia; Russia accused
A massive cyber-attack has broken out in Estonia as widespread DDoS attacks bring down government web sites and attract the attention of NATO and the US. Was Russia responsible?…
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Don't buy oats on May 15th!
On May 15th in 1642, in response to escalating prices of “Horse Oats,” an equestrian breeder named John Wilkins organized the first “oats-out” where horse owners didn’t buy oats…
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A better way to "Boycott gas stations on May 15th"
I recently got the "Boycott buying gas on May 15th" email, which hopes to "cripple Big Oil" if only 10% of us don't buy gas on this day. Brian Carr (no pun intended) rebuts this…
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Trent Reznor "Gets it"
"As the climate grows more and more desperate for record labels, their answer to their mostly self-inflicted wounds seems to be to screw the consumer over even more." -- Trent…
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Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act deadline
Today, Monday, May 14th 2007, is the deadline given to internet service providers to install surveillance and monitoring equipment on their systems -- to survey and monitor whom?…
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T-Mobile T-Zones Proxy
T-Mobile has a couple different data plans (which is for transferring data rather than voice information). The full "unlimited" plan and their "T-Zones" plan (which I'm paying…
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Introducing Spencer Levi (updated with pictures)
Spencer Levi was born today at 18:06 MDT . He weighed 8 lbs 8 oz and measured 21 inches. Mother and baby are doing extraordinarily well (labor was very easy -- well, considering…
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11 Year Old Girl Kills 2 Armed, Illegal Alien, Home Invaders
According to LibertyPost.org, two illegal aliens (23 year-old Ralphel Resindez and 26 year-old Enrico Garza) probably believed they would easily overpower a home alone 11…
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Timing is Everything…
My buddy Josh pointed the following out to me: Since this will never happen again, guess we should at least know about it: Three minutes and four seconds after 2:00 A.M. on the…
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Day 3: And you wondered why Delta was having problems
MIX07 has come and gone, and the information that's leaking out of my ears is just aching to be set free once I get back to my dev box so I can plug in some of the goodness that…
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Day 3, Building Rich, Interactive E-Commerce Applications Using ASP.NET and Silverlight (XBD09)
Mark's and Ori's blogs, and the forum. Examples included airline tickets and corporate card expenditure tracking.
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Day 3, Making Money with RSS (BD009)
Microsoft has extened RSS (RSS, Atom, RDF, etc.) with Simple List Extensions for RSS, which goes a little like this: add extensions to RSS (yes, that's what RSS was designed to…
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Day 3, Selling Stuff on the Web in Style with Microsoft Commerce Server (XBD06)
The take-home message from this session is "Got a quarter of a million for hardware and infrastucture, a bunch more for Commerce Server, and a whole lot of development time?…
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Day 2, Party at Club Pure
I'm a geek... let's all admit it. Geeks usually don't go clubbing... and when they do it's usually not a pretty sight. Well, Microsoft sent all of us at MIX07 to Club Pure. I…
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The Music of MIX07
Tentacled Sawfish Prior to the beginning of the Day 1 opening Keynote address the MIX07 attendees were treated with the music of Tentacled Sawfish . There are more than retro…
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Day 2, Deep Dive on Silverlight™ Media Integration (XD001)
Silverlight Media is continuous, rich, and flexible. It uses the standard VC-1 standard (which is the type of encoding used by HD-DVD and Blu-Ray) as one of its media formats (of…
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Day 2, Developing ASP.NET AJAX Controls with Silverlight (DEV05)
The AJAX Futures package (for ASP.NET) introduces a new tag: <asp:Media runat="server" /> which uses Silverlight to play media. The client tag is rendered as an EMBED tag in…
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Day 2, High-Speed Development with the AJAX Control Toolkit
The AJAX Control Toolkit is an open-source, shared-source set of 34 (currently) controls that extend the functionality of Microsoft AJAX (and AJAX Futures for ASP.NET …
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Day 2, Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 1 of 2; DEV22)
A Silverlight canvas can be nested within another canvas. Silverlight includes a WCF (Indigo) stack for some really cool networking (and data transactions). This is particularly…
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MIX Rumor
A little bird overheard some Microsoft execs outside the MIX07 Mix and Mash tonight (well, yesterday night, since it's now 2:30am) that were quite upset at Ray Ozzie (MS Chief…
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MIX07
The Maimed Leech has been monitoring blogs for people's impressions of what is happening at MIX07 and has collected a pretty good list. Head on over and check it out !
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Day 1, AJAX Patterns with ASP.NET (XD003)
Define: Patterns According to Wikipedia, a pattern is a generally repeatable solution to commonly occurring problem in software design. Further, patterns are subdivided into two…
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Day 1, Using Visual Studio codename "Orcas" to design and develop Rich AJAX Enabled Websites (DEV14)
What's new in Visual Studio "Orcas"? A new feature in Orcas is the ability to "multi-target" the application that you're creating. You can select .NET Framework 2.0, .NET…
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Day 1, Building Rich Web Experiences using Silverlight and Javascript for Developers (DEV11)
Why Silverlight™? Silverlight lets you put video on the web (WMV 7 -9, as well as high-definition up to 720p, W00T!) Silverlight lets you put audio on the web (WMA 7-9, as well…
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MIX Tips
I have the power! First and foremost, power is important. You cannot 'blog without it! If you're here at MIX07 and you're in a session, and you need some go juice for your laptop…
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Day 1, General Session (Keynote): I've seen the future
I'm writing to you now from inside the Venetian Convention Center, listening to the MIX07 Keynote address with Michael Arrington, Scott Guthrie, and Ray Ozzie. The writing that's…
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Day 0: The Arrival
We've just arrived at our hotel and are about to head over to register for MIX07. In the meantime, here are the first pics... enjoy!
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Faster Page Loads With Image Concatenation ("CSS Sprites")
When designing web solutions (sites or applications), icons and small images can be used to enhance the user experience (UX) by providing visual cues. The downside of the…
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Weber.edu Online: Down during "Dead Week"
Online college courses can be a great thing. Many of them offer you the ability to put off turning in your assignments and taking your tests until the absolute last moment -- you…
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Ink Blogging
Article by Joe Levi: Ink Blogging.
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FeedBuddy
RSS feeds are really something that I enjoy. They offer all the content of a site organized into neat little packages that I can read off-line, sort, and search for keywords…