Archive for the ‘Geek’ Category

Download the Ubuntu Pocket Guide for FREE, Or buy the book for $10!

Monday, January 26th, 2009
Switch To ubuntu Today!     Switch To ubuntu Today!

No more excuses left, you should try ubuntu NOW.

OK, listen to this: The Software is free, the guide is now available as free download, you can even have them send you a free Live CD. When I received mine it came with some stickers; so cool. By the way, Live CD means you can run it from the CD itself if you choose not to install it. What are you waiting for? Go grab those downloads.

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Windows 7 can’t do simple Math??

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

I installed Windows 7 beta on both of my computers the day it was supposed to be released, I haven’t used it much on my desktop though until today.

One of the websites I visited prompted me to install the Flash Plug-in, not something I haven’t seen before. OK, let’s install the plugin, it should only take a minute right? Scratch that!

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Free Skype calls via Bluetooth.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Not that the weather is so nice these days but with my cheap Bluetooth headset I could be sitting in the balcony talking to relatives accross the big pond. Best of all, I don’t pay a dime.

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Useful timers (for pregos + new moms).

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
The baby was coming FAST!
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As soon as we learned we were pregnant with our second baby I started thinking of a simple way to track feeding times. I knew it had to be a touch-screen solution for it to be convenient, and since I have a 3com Audrey internet appliance; I thought I’ll just put together a Javascript based timer and have it all web based. Sweet, sounds like a great idea, how do I execute it?

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