Archive for the 'Technology' Category

I am setting up a domain from scratch for a local educational outfit. Because of the budget - zero - I decided to use Google’s applications for domains. I didn’t use their registration service because if I was going to mess with it for free, I wanted to use a domain service I was already [...]

That’s right, if you live in these states (count ‘em! - 19)! You won’t be able to get a new iPhone. Sorry.
From the Silicon Valley Business Journal
The iPhone service won’t be available in all or large portions of Alaska, Colorado, the Dakotas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, [...]

AGLOCO is trying benefit from the “Social Media” phenomenon of MySpace and Facebook for example while also differentiating itself. They raise some interesting points. I think that there’s a large movement of people who feel that it’s increasingly difficult for individuals to protect themselves against the vagaries of the economy. The “game” always seems to [...]

Telecommuting? Working at home? Then as the sheer number of your computers grows, you might be interested in setting up a storage network at home. Here’s some tips from Computer World.
With five computers in my home/office, I told myself, the last thing I need is to add a shared network storage device to the clutter. [...]

A $100 Laptop? Yes - coming soon to a child to an underdeveloped nation soon!
You can see a picture of one of those “$100 laptops” but don’t expect to buy one.
The International Organization “One Laptop Per Child” DOES plan to get the price down to $100 or so through mass production, but they probably won’t [...]

Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery, just as k Internet Explorer 7.0.
I can’t find anything about it that Google Toolbar or Firefox weren’t responsible for creating in the first place.
And still, I find it to be a pain to work with! Unfortunately some of the proprietary software I have to use only works properly [...]

http://www.emergencyemail.org/ lets you receive notification by email as soon as a national emergency broadcast goes out, or one affecting your area. You can configure the service to contact you by email or cell phone.
Depending on your area (some areas have more systems on this communications network) you can be notified about
1. Severe weather alerts
2. Homeland Security [...]

One truism in the direct mail world - if you have a targeted list of hot prospects and a good product is “the more you tell, the more you sell”.
One very successful promotion in the late 80’s involved full page, all text (except one small corner photo) lead generation ads with a toll free number [...]

Why does Google want to be a domain name registrar? The New York Times gives as good an explanation as any…to more quickly update it’s search registry, elminate well optimized but otherwise worthless pages that just have ads at expired domains, and to keep it’s free search engine results as relevant as possible. Or is [...]

With fears that our oil dollars are simply funding our enemies and making us poorer, there are widespread calls for “hybrid” gas and electric cars.
The question remains… if everybody got one, is there enough power generation capacity in the US to power them?
This study reports that there is.
It assumes several things…that you commute the “average” [...]