These are just some things I’m going to be watching for this coming year!
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Cell phones will have voice recognition to type text messages for you- when your out of voice minutes.
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Various websites will continue to praise Microsoft for the ‘awesome-ness’ of Windows 7 and I’ll continue to be depressed by their blind vision.
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‘Everything’ plans are going to become more common with all phone carriers and then the price and speed wars will start. Who’s the fastest and who’s the cheapest?
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Microsoft is going to release Internet Explorer to a race of open source web browsers that kick it’s ass. Look for Microsoft to loose it’s hold on the browser market.
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Microsoft Office is going to see a loss in popularity as the economy is in the crapper and people are watching their budgets closer.
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Bit torrent sites are going to report record numbers on website traffic.
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Netbooks ‘Hybrids’ are going to start proving the Operating System on the SSD HD and for storage a traditional hard drive.
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The highest grossing movies of 2009 are going to be of super heros, comic books and 80’s cartoons.
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Green technologies are going to make huge leaps in solar and wind solutions. Self Sufficient homes and cars.
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The TSS Crew will continue to provide stories for your reading/listening pleasure.
With highest regard and best wishes, have a great NEW year!
Thank you,
TSS Crew
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While it’s no secret that I have a great distain for Internet Explorer, it doesn’t mean that I can remove it from my everyday life. The boneheads from work that says that I have to use Internet Explorer to do my job, and knowing that it’s the most insecure browser, and the slowest, doesn’t make me any happier.
The one thing that makes me just a little more accepting of Internet Explorer is when I don’t have to use it through the stock interface. So many developers have created their own user interface for the Trident rendering engine [the same one Internet Explorer uses]. These same users have come up with great interfaces, functions and features that Microsoft would have never thought of or offered on their own.
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There are programs on the internet that want to offer you assistance by providing you a tool/program, keep information, orgainze it, keep your passwords and while are shareware, some are freeware.
The problem with some of these solutions, mostly shareware, they provide these tools as a opportunity to trap you in their application. The idea is that you’ll use the progra and then once you determine you aren’t going to stay with it, you going to have to becuase they don’t offer a EXPORT option.
The open source community seems to understand this pretty well and knows that people need options, but whereas freeware will be more than happy to offer an EXPORT option, the shareware guys would to prefer you to be stuck in their program and have to stay with them forever.
My opinion, putting in information to a program, getting it out is just as important.
It’s not funny to anyone that’s place in this position. The information these persons are working with is theirs; they own it or created it, and they’re basically being held hostage.
I was recently testing out a shareware package, ROBOFORM, and yeah I tested it for sometime, but that’s because I was lazy, but I didn’t want to keep the program, but at the same time the program specizes in keeping passwords and has no EXPORT option; it didn’t have a EXPORT option if you bought it. And this my point.
Make sure that when your trying software, before you get too involved with it, make sure you can get out of it. So if the application is no longer supported, or if you decide that there’s a better program [like I did] you can get your data out of it.
Regards,
NapoleonAG
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Boom boom, bing bang boom
Umpity bumpity, clumpity clouse
with all the racket up there
You’d think Santa was chasing, tackling or punting a mouse.
From the crazy gizmo fanactics
to baby-boom, dual core, hacker wannabe’s.
We commonly call it Christmas- it comes once a year
We offer this little post along with our other blog blog’in goodies.
Based on Google Analytics and the four points of the world
We’ve had visitors from all over - every shape, color and size.
They came to see our ‘Tech Side Stories’ – what were we saying?
Now, you shouldn’t be on your computer at Christmas day; but we won’t criticize.
But seriously, it’s only one day, and from our families to yours
With the biggest and best’est wishes in mind
We hope ya’ll have a nice Christmas!
And for one day, we’ll be nice, happy, courteous and kind.
Happy Holidays and have a nice day!
The TSS Crew
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As a person that has more than half a brain [that's working], this makes me dangerous and intimidating to most corporate ‘tech support’ nut heads out there.
The corporate tech support nowadays is the equivalent to the introduction of a voice mail box or an automated response to ‘if your skin is blue press #2 on your phone.’
Trying to find answers to your own issues is [in my experience] the best way to go. Contacting tech support for Nuance, Target, Creative, Acer or some other corporate sweat shop, your just gonna get crap.
I don’t like contacting support, but when I absolutely have to I’m pleasantly reminded each time how stupid they really are.
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I’m a really big fan of e-mail clients. While others will argue that using the web-based e-mail client is the way to go, I like having my information on my machine locally. I guess I’m just old-fashioned.
And speaking of old-fashioned, I’ve got myself a new PC that’s 64-bit, I’m trying to make sure that everything that I picked up or install is 64-bit compatible.
One of my favorite applications is Thunderbird, but I’m kind of disappointed in the development of the application over the past couple of years. It seems the application just isn’t getting attention it deserves or it’s not moving fast enough in directions that would make the application more attractive.
One of the biggest things that I love about Thunderbird is the amount of extensions and extra functions you can add to the e-mail client to do special things, but the client it’s self is really plain.
Although Thunderbird is a good email client, the next version is about to be released and I’m just not getting the vibe that it’s moving very far in a forward direction.
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is what I consider good comedy.
So I’m checking my emails and reviewing all my new stuff, and I like to say I notice the small stuff and then I saw this little thing on GMAIL; it says ‘ GET FASTER GMAIL’. So me being curious- oh whatever do you mean? There’s this listing.
While it may not be funny to some it’s hilarious to me. Why? Well, it’s because I think it’s a slap in the face of Microsoft.
The Google boys are saying hey! Do this faster! And then they list the large ICONs for Firefox and Chrome. Lastly, they toss this little shout out for Microsoft saying ,and by the way there’s this other browser, INTERNET EXPLORER, it’s in beta.
While Microsoft lovers are just clammering about the new version of Internet Explorer , nothing, absolutely nothing is going to get me to go back to a browser that has had so many faults and unresponsive/stagnant support.
The saying in business is that it takes years to find a customer and just seconds to loose them. I wonder if Microsoft ever heard that one?
Regards,
NapoleonAG
Email/IM: NapoleonAG.TSS@Gmail.com
Website: www.TechSideStories.com
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The infinite question is which browser is better, which is more secure, who’s more compatible and which is more flexible?
This is a argument that’s going to be asked everyday, if not multiple times a day.
While others have their opinions, I’ve mine; the thing that has me just regurgitating with joy is the tight integration of the Operating System and Internet Explorer. A browser is a browser is a browser; and the thing that gets Microsoft their market share and also damages the Internet at the same time is this tight sitting pair. Microsoft has taken the position of pairing the Operating System with their browser, so that means they can push out updates to computers that are running Windows [90% of the world] and then claim to have market dominance. Duh! No kidding. Kind’a like saying. ‘…we make roads; you’ve to use this car.’ [Read More]
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