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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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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Google’s toolbar is a piece of junk. As I stated in my previous post Leaving Google, you are track everywhere you go on the web by google. That is an invasion of my privacy. I don’t want them to know that I like to look at snow flakes in the shape of Atari 2600s ( and I do). That is just the tip of the iceburg. The pop-up blocker in the google toolbar is a little too good. I have numerous people who have added a site to the ‘White List’ (list of allowed sites to have pop-ups) and the google toolbar still blocks it. The only way I have seen someone to have a pop-up work is to hold the control key down as you click on the link to open the pop-up, that is if the site has a link to the pop-up. If the site does not have a link, then you are s.o.l.
Join me in saying that the google toolbar sucks. If you need a pop-up blocker, use the one in your browser (even IE has one). Here is a link to google’s faqs on the toolbar.
Till next time
Sir Slur
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I am trying to limit and possibly end my dependence on Google. Don’t get me wrong, I like A LOT of their services (I am writing a series on Google Reader 1 2 3), but they are going against their credo of ‘Do no evil’. I will give some examples of why they are going against their credo a little later.First, Google is becoming the Microsoft of the web. Yes, we all know that MS is not very good at anything web, Internet Explorer, MSN, Live, etc. Google is becoming too big to be the innovative one on the block. How many of their products, THAT THEY DEVELOPED, have been a success? Search has. Gmail has. Reader has in my eyes. But what else? They bought YouTube.
With that being said, Google is looking to find a way to grow. They are not that good at building products, aside from the few I wrote above. What they are doing is keeping as much information about everybody who uses any of their services to slap them with ads, or have someone else do it. I have a problem with this. I do not mind companies showing me ads to make money or provide me a service. I do not like how much detail they keep.
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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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We added a great new feature to our site, its the Odiogo Text-to-Speech service. This service will take the posts from your blog and scrub through each one and convert the text in each to an MP3 file that you can stream from the site or download to your PC or MP3 player. It’s pretty slick , automated, and FREE. The installation is easy.
You will see a “Listen Now” link under each post now. Click this link to stream the audio of each post or download the MP3. If you want to download the podcast through iTunes or your MP3 Player click this 
. If you want to learn how to install Odiogo to your own blog, read on.
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One of the most common things to expect nowadays when purchasing a PC is 24/7 tech-support. The people behind the scenes to provide these types of services; not all of them are super smart at what they do. Some of them look at screens that give them instructions on how to fix problems, others have the ingenuity and intellect to figure out what other forces may be working to produce to problem the customer is having; these are the good guys.
Whether the technicians looking at a screen or taking time to troubleshoot your problem, you should have a level of respect for this individual. This person has chosen to torture himself by speaking with you and trying to resolve problem with a PC that’s not theirs. Undertaking this task is not done lightly. It’s either provided to them in a tech-support queue or is coming in from a friend or family member who feels that ‘you’re that guy’; you can fix it. And when they call you they have no concept of time. They think this issue they’re calling about will be resolved in just a matter of minutes, but on a regular basis, and from personal experience, this is not the case. It’s going to be the hours of torture that you always dreamed about. [Read More]
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This is so honestly funny; I’ve to share.
Let’s set the stage, you’re there mucking around on your computer, everything is fine and dandy and then Microsoft says you’ve some updates to install; you’re like okay- do your thing buddy. Upon reboot you get this nice error that keeps you from getting back in to the Operating System; I’m think’n SWEET! I needed something to suck up all my time over the weekend. [Read More]
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