Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Sunday, March 30th, 2008 364 views
For world travelers, there is nothing like the news in their own language to make them feel at home again, particularly if they can find a current affairs channel that is from their home country. This is easier done in some countries than in others. For example, American news channels ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008 262 views
Do you have an iPod? This little music box has become so popular in the past couple of years that a whole pile of great iPod accessories have developed around the product. These accessories are just the thing for the person who has everything.
Even if you don’t own one ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008 207 views
The issue of fancy men's underwear is still threatening to undermine this great country.
Andrew Christian has unveiled his new, horrific men's underwear with Flashback Butt-Lifting and Contouring Technology. He promises that it "gives men the illusion of having a sought-after "bubble butt" without having to spend hours in the gym."
Great ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008 231 views
The whole point of disk encryption products is to protect the data on a computer drive if the computer is lost or stolen or illegally accessed, that is, if physical security is breached.
In this case a good Data Encryption Software would be an invaluable help.
Data security is getting a big ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008 244 views
Once people used to go to Las Vegas for gambling.
Now they go to Las Vegas to spend some time in a nice place, with nice weather and see where people used to go gambling.
Because, if you want to gamble, you have better places to go and easily reachable too.
What about ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008 165 views
That is terribly true, especially if you happen to go on vacation in far away, with no infrastructures, countries.
There begins the dilemma: Will I call home or won't I?
You can always call "collect", but then, when the bill arrives, you go into the five phases:
Disillusionment
Panic
Search for the guilty
Punishment of the ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008 86 views
Piracy is so bad, according to the MPAA, that we need special legislation to target the dastardly college pirates who are destroying the business. It's so bad that Weekly Reader subscribers will learn about the $7 billion a year "lost" to Internet piracy. It's so bad that the MPAA wants ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 90 views
One of the sounds I love is the sound, better, the music of the wind.
How can you listen to it?
With a wind chime.
It is something you usually hang out of your home, made by hollow or solid metal or wooden tubes, meant to be played by the wind.
They can be ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 84 views
"Google's corporate philosophy is based on the model which brought them success: organizing and giving away other people's content, creating space for advertisements in the process.
The enormous success Google found with that model in the search engine business spurred it to try and impose it in every arena. In the ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 70 views
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: March 4, 2008
Steve Marshall is an English travel agent. He lives in Spain, and he sells trips to Europeans who want to go to sunny places, including Cuba. In October, about 80 of his Web sites stopped working, thanks to the United States government...
It turned out, though, ...
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