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20 December 2011 ~ Comments Off

Beware of Taskforce Pro App for Gmail

For a short while I used the Taskforce App for Gmail. I was relatively happy with it until I tried synchronizing to Google Tasks and it kept disconnecting. Rather than spend an endless game of debugging an application that might never work properly (the developers last blog post was August 2011), I decided to cancel [...]

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14 December 2011 ~ Comments Off

How to watch Times Square New Years Eve Online – In 3D

Interested in watching the festivities in New York City’s Times Square on December 31, 2011 – but not all that thrilled to fight the crowds. Well you’re in luck because for the last several years there has been a way to watch all the activity live from your computer via the power of the streaming [...]

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15 June 2011 ~ Comments Off

Beware AppSumo Sales Practices/Deal Requirements

This morning a deal for Olark, an online chat support window for web sites, arrived in my email. The deal promised a year of Gold service for $125 verus the normal $44 per month. All that you need to do is pay on the website in one lump sum via Paypal. Or do you? After [...]

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07 March 2011 ~ Comments Off

Family auctions off earthquake boulder

Affectionately named “Rocky,” the boulder has become a veritable part of the Johnsons’ home. But now they want it gone – to the highest bidder. It’s all about branding, isn’t it? Touting the 25-ton boulder as a “landscape rock” and giving him the persona “Rocky,” Phil Johnson has seen the bids roll in on a [...]

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28 December 2010 ~ Comments Off

How to Force your Android Phone To Check For An Update

Cool tip that pushes your Android based phone online to see if there’s a software or firmware update available. Amplify’d from lifehacker.com How to Force Your Android Phone to Check for a System Update You’ve just read or heard that your phone is due for an update—maybe just bug fixes, or possibly a big version [...]

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