21Nov

Netflix On The 360 & the Sony experience

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So the things I can’t watch on Netflix with my 360.

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Come on sony don’t be douche bags !!!!!!

19Jul

Wonderful Laptop Deal

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This an amazing deal being offered this weekend by Wal-Mart announced the other day on their blog. If your in need of a laptop you should take advantage of this deal.

http://www.checkoutblog.com/entries/2008/7/17/saving_you_some_money.aspx


Thursday, July 17 at 10:53 AM

Posted by: Ryan, Wal-Mart

Category: Gadgets

One of the coolest parts of my job is working with suppliers to bring you all great deals.  Today, I am announcing a deal that is the best we have delivered so far this year.  The time is perfect as the economy is what it is, and people are getting prepared for going back to school.image

Sunday at 8 am, we will begin selling a Toshiba laptop that has 2GB of RAM, 120GB Hard Drive, Reads and Writes cd’s and dvd’s, has a 15.4” screen, has wireless capability and the Windows Vista Premium Operating System.  All of this for $398.  That’s right; $398!!  This is a tremendous value for anyone looking for a laptop.  Supplies are limited (we did buy a lot, but think at this price it will be quite popular).  This item will also be on the front cover of our circular this Sunday.

As I’ve said before, you can expect we will keep delivering on great prices in electronics.  You bet we want to be competitive — and especially this year show students (and moms) we know they care about both the price and the product!

RH

09Jul

The Tools Of My Trade

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I spend a majority of my day developing web applications for my business I wanted to tell you a little about the tools I use. I pretty geeky and cheap so the software on my workstation is primary resource based. I do have FrontPage, dreamweaver, but I would rather write my own code. I use a little application called Jedit primary. It’s basically like notepad with tons of add-ons. In addition to that I use SQL Manager to maintain my SQL servers and table. besides those two which I use day in day out. I just started developing for ASP.net so I using a GUI tool called Visual Web Developer Express edition of course because it’s free. my teammates have faster, nicer workstations but I use a Dell Optiplex GX280 SFF it’s small lite and I don’t know any other department in my company that has them besides mine.

Dell Optiplex GX280 SFF Configuration:

  • Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
  • 512MBytes DDR2-SDRAM
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Oh and Additional Applications I use a lot:

Filezilla
WinVnc
GIMP

05Jun

Using ShareMaster Gadgets On Unbuntu Shares

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I’ve been thinking about building a Windows Home Server but each time I come up with a reason I’m able to cancel it out with another reason why my Unbuntu server is good enough.  imageThe other I was looking around at different WHS website and I came across this really cool Windows Vista Sidebar gadget on homeserverhacks.com that allows for you save via drag and drop and directly access your directories. I though it was really cool and I wanted to build my own version that would allow to save to Unbuntu shares. So I downloaded loaded it up and I then I realized that it allows for you connect directly to the server. imageTheir for you can specify your servers name and Username and you’ll be able to save and access your files too. Just like people with Windows Home Server can do. 

02Jun

Microsoft Writer

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Today I came across another Microsoft product that can help you perform online task faster. This application called Microsoft Writer Live is a desktop blog-publishing application. It allows for you to post to you blog just from using a Word like interface and application. According to the Microsoft website it supports Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, Community_Server, PBlogs.gr, JournalHome, the MetaWeblog API, the Moveable Type API, and all blogs that support RSD (Really Simple Discoverability) and if it’s not list here you can most likely download it on the website. For information about this application you can find it at the following link. One last comment on this product, I’m actually using it right now to submit this posting to this site right now.

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