Archive | January, 2011

23 January 2011 ~ Comments Off

ATT UVerse Poor Picture Quality, Pixelated, Freezes – 3 Strikes Yer Out

When ATT Uverse was first put into my house at the end of October 2010 the service was pretty good. I liked that the DVR included with the service eliminated my need to pay TIVO a monthly fee for a similar service. Then one day my neighbor came over. He told me how he’d had [...]

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19 January 2011 ~ Comments Off

Trapster Latest To Suffer Apparent Hack And Lose Your Password And Login

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Trapster’s apparently the latest to send around the “If you’ve been using the same password and login on multiple sites – then you’re a moron because we think we just got hacked”. Of course these follow Gawker Media’s famous episode of losing secure web visitor information. If it wasn’t gone before – the days of [...]

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09 January 2011 ~ Comments Off

Socialcast Adds Improved Notifications

It’s been about 6 months since my Sage centered 90 Minds Consulting Group ditched Yahoo Groups and moved entirely to Socialcast for member information sharing.Socialcast is an online messaging system similar to Yammer.  Our 90 Minds group is over 27 members strong and while each firm is typically under half a dozen people in size [...]

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08 January 2011 ~ Comments Off

LinkedIn Adds Ability to Reply To Discussion By Email

Active participation in LinkedIn discussion groups is one of the most useful – and overlooked – aspect of LinkedIn. Most users don’t realize that a great majority of the users registered in a particular discussion group also receive daily (or weekly) summaries of every active message (both new and replies). And the last person to [...]

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08 January 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Deal: Kingston 32GB DataTraveler 160 USB Flash Drive $39.95 shipped

Having occasion to need one of these USB drives I can say that if you look in your typical retail stores you’re going to pay top dollar. These drives are the type of purchase most people don’t make until absolutely needed – which means you trudge into Staples or Best Buy to overpay the list [...]

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